Product Description

Keep all your plant records, notes and ideas in this all-in-one garden organizer and planner. Record your garden techniques, strategies, weather and events in the three-year-weekly journal. Check monthly hints, collect clippings and photos, plot garden designs and learn time-saving techniques.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #934124 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 192 pages

Review
Different options for gardeners include a journal, charts to highlight plants, monthly checklist and time-saving techniques. -- The Sandy Post, August 1, 2001

If you like to keep garden records, Weekend Gardener Organizer could be for you. -- The Oregonian, August 30, 2001

This book neatly stows all your garden records in one place. Tote this all-in-one organizer to the garden. -- The East Clackamas County Gazette, August, 2001

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.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
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!

Customer Reviews

Very Helpful Book
This is a perfect journal for novice gardeners with big plans and not enough time. I've tried to keep all my garden scribbles in a spiral book but end up feeling discouraged because I can never find it when I need it, and I never seem to have enough time to make any progress in my garden (I work full-time). This book helped me collect my thought and also encouraged me to think more "big picture" and long-term about the plans I have for my yard. A great gift for gardeners (and those who want to be one!).