Free Garden Notebook Journal For Your Best Garden Yet

Plan, organize, and dream your way to garden success with this 16 page garden notebook where you can lay out your garden, record, and journal to remember your garden experiences. Grab your free garden journal and start planning and recording today!

One of my favorite things in the Resource Library is the Garden Success Plan Notebook because I’ve come to rely on it’s pages through the years. It’s been invaluable in helping me grow successful gardens, as I can easily record what I did and then refer to how things grew and adapt as needed for my microclimate.

I detailed some of the benefits of keeping basic records here, as well as how I’ve organized garden paperwork through the years in a gardening binder. If you haven’t read that yet, I encourage you to take a look not only because it’s helpful to see how other people keep track of things, but also ways you can use the pages of the gardening notebook.

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Using the Garden Notebook for Vegetable Planning

While all the pages in the notebook record things that are useful to remember, the most valuable part to me has always been the diagrams of my vegetable beds from year to year. I plan the beds in late winter or early spring and the plan guides me in both starting seeds and buying plants (how many do I need of each vegetable) and where to plant the transplants when the time comes.

But the value doesn’t stop there – I also update the plan through the season as I make changes or additions, which helps me plan better for the next year.

And most important of all when you are gardening organically is that these vegetable plans are a record of what was planted from year to year so you can rotate what you plant in each bed. This is one of the main ways to discourage recurring soil-born diseases.

Using the Notebook for Flower Gardening

All this is to say – keeping a basic journal is a key part of gardening! And not just for vegetables – how many times do you wish you could remember what shrub or perennial you planted in what spot? Especially when they’ve disappeared for the winter. And if something dies, you have a record of that so that you don’t plant it again in that area if it didn’t like it.

As an added bonus, when we sold our home, the buyers were super excited to have the copied plans I gave them so they’d know what was going to come up the next year. I would’ve loved to be given something like this when moving to a new place, wouldn’t you?

The Garden Notebook Journal Contents

I love the cute garden themed drawings and images, of this version of the notebook! My designer daughter and planned coordinating pages and added more from the previous version so the total printable pages is now 16!

Once you download the file, you will find the following pages included (my suggestions for printing amounts are listed in green):

• Cover page (print one)
• Overall Garden Plans (vertical & horizontal) (print as many as needed for your garden areas)
• Current Year Garden Plan title page (print one)
• Garden Plans for Year (vertical & horizontal) (print as many needed for that year’s garden areas)
• Yearly Seed Plant Needs (print one for each year)
• Indoor Seed Starting Record (print one for each year)
• Garden Yields (print one for each year)
• Garden Notes & Favorites title page (print one)
• Favorite Vegetable & Fruits (print as many as you need)
• Favorite Flowers, Trees & Shrubs (print as many as you need)
• Blank Notes Pages (I suggest you print LOTS of these pages!)
• Past Garden Records title page (print one) – here’s where you move all your previous yearly pages to so you have a great record!
• Divider Tabs & Spine (optional to print one if using a binder and tabs)
• Back Cover page – (optional print one) – This is provided if you have a binder with a back cover pocket or you want to spiral-bind your notebook (TIP: print the cover and back cover pages in a heavy cardstock for spiral binding).

Here’s what a sampling of the pages look like:

As you can see above, all the pages coordinate and look great together!

You’ll also find a title for the spine if using a binder with a clear view window. I really wanted this to make it easy to identify your garden notebook when it’s on a shelf.

Including a back cover page is just fun for a binder, but it’s actually really needed if you want to have this spiral bound.

I hope you like and use this garden notebook as much as I do!

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