Weekend Gardener Organizer, A Three Year Planner - Softcover

Fresnaye, Lavon H. La

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966267419 ISBN 13: 9780966267419

Publisher: LA Fresnaye Ink, 2001

Synopsis

Learn what your garden is teaching you and grow the garden of your dreams. Design and grow a vegetable garden, flower gardens and container gardens. Learn to organize your limited gardening time with timesaving techniques. Keep all your garden records, notes and ideas in one place. Use the three-year-weekly journal to record how your garden is growing. Remember what garden strategies worked and what did not work. Check monthly hints for gardening ideas. Let Weekend Gardener Organizer be your guide for keeping a garden journal.

About this title

About the Author:

Lavon H. La Fresnaye, author and teacher, is an experienced weekend gardener. She is an Oregon State University Extension Master Gardener. She is the author of "Northwest Weekend Gardener Organizer, A Three Year Planner" and she writes a garden newspaper column. La Fresnaye received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Oregon State University and a Masters Of Arts degree in education from California State University Long Beach. She taught high school journalism and social science and she was a high school administrator. Presently she lives in Sandy, Oregon with her husband Bill.

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Have you every viewed someone else's beautiful garden and wished you had the time to make yours as beautiful? I developed this garden organizer with a time management system to help gardeners like you and me be more successful gardeners. By keeping a garden journal, by keeping garden records and by organizing your gardening time, your garden and yards will become the garden of your dreams.

We wish we had lots of time to spend in our gardens, don't we? I believe this method of gardening will help you maximize the time you do have. I searched for something designed for the weekend gardener and part time gardener and could not find it. As a result I wrote this book for you. These techniques work for me and I know they will work for you.

This three year planner is designed for you to see and to record what is happening in your garden for a period of time. Not every year is the same. Some years have a little rain, as you know, and other years have an unseasonable amount of rain.

Keep a journal of your gardening. You will find the journal is a record of your garden successes and your garden mistakes. You will continue to do what works and you will stop doing what does not work. You become a better gardener because of your records.

Keep records about your special plants. You may wonder about the growth of your flowers. You check your journal entry from the previous year and you find they are growing on schedule. You plan to fertilize the rhododendrons and you check your journal entry to see when you did it before.

When you follow this plan you will have your garden entries in this small book. The purpose of this garden organizer is to help you have a place to keep your garden plans, records and journal entries.

I included a time management system to help you use your limited gardening time efficiently and to help you achieve garden goals you may have been putting off.

Each chapter represents one essential element that guarantees garden success. A brief introduction of the organizer chapters follows.

Achieve The Garden Of Your Dreams: Setting goals for your garden helps you achieve the garden you have always wanted. Chapter Two helps you organize your thoughts on how you want your garden to look. First you write all you would like in your garden. Then you set one or two goals to achieve part of that visualization. For each goal you list the tasks and activities for achieving the goals and you set deadlines. It is very simple and it works.

When To Plant And When To Prune: Your garden requires monthly maintenance. Chapter Three is where you find suggested monthly garden tasks. It is the "to do" chapter with room for a list of gardening tasks you set for your garden. It is one of my favorites because by looking at the monthly list, I have an idea of what to do in my garden.

Sketch, Record And Remember: Chapter Four is where you keep records on your special plants and where you record plant information you want to remember. The charts and layouts provide space for you to record your garden plans and to record plant know how. I developed these chapters because I was contantly looking for information on the same plants. Now the information I need is in one place.

Make Houseplants Healthy And Happy: Record the special requirements for your houseplants on the charts in Chapter Five. The information will help you remember how to keep your indoor plants healthy.

Watch Your Garden Grow: Chapter Six is a three year weekly journal for you to keep notes about your garden and to watch your gardening skills grow. Use the three year calendar to record what you accomplish yearly, monthly and weekly. Keep notes on what you do in your garden and keep notes on what is happening in your garden. The journal helps you become a better gardener.

Find Your Ideal Garden: Chapter Seven helps you visualize your garden. Watch your garden grow with photographs. Save photographs, tape magazine and newspaper articles and diagram future gardens. List your favorite garden suppliers for you may want to purchase a special plant again.

Use this organizer on weekends. Write journal entries, set goals, record information on your plants and sketch your garden. Let this book be your constant garden companion and it will help you become a better gardener. Happy gardening!

About this edition

• Publisher: LA Fresnaye Ink
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0966267419
• ISBN 13: 9780966267419
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 192