Garden Maintenance Calendar
The jobs you have decided to do each month, in your own words.
Resources
Planting, harvest, lawn, plant care, and the tools and machines in the shed.
Gardening records are mostly about next year: what was sown when, what came up, what the harvest weighed and which tools need servicing before spring. These resources are built for that, and are deliberately free of sowing dates and feeding schedules, which depend on where you are.
20 resources · every one as a printable and fillable PDF in A4 and US Letter, and online · 8 with an Excel workbook.
The jobs you have decided to do each month, in your own words.
What was sown, under cover or direct, and on which date.
What seed you actually have, by crop and variety, before you order more.
Total weight and count harvested over the season, added up for you.
How many beds there are, how big each one is and which way it faces.
Every watering, feed, misting, repot, prune and move, with its date.
Which trees and hedges there are, where they stand and what they are.
Which lawn jobs were done in which month, ticked off as you go.
Every structure and piece of furniture outside, with where it stands.
Which parts of the garden need watering and what is in each.
Which outside area was cleaned and on what date.
Every feeder, table and nest box, with its type and position.
Everything bought for the garden, dated, with the supplier.
What was done to each machine and when, in one place instead of a drawer of receipts.
A valued list of tools and machines that an insurance claim can be built on.
Which zone or shelf each item belongs in, so it can be found and put back.
An estimate for every item before you start, in categories that suit garden work.
Where each plant is, which matters once there are more than a dozen.
Everything the site has on this subject — sheets, workbooks and tools included — is gathered on the garden hub.
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