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Garden and growing · GG-41
Garden Diary Weekly Page
A free printable garden diary page: a week on one sheet with each day's weather, jobs, sowing and harvest, plus what flowered, pests, buys and next week's jobs.
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What this sheet is for
Keep a week of the garden on one page, to look back on when planning next year. It is the running record that ties the specialist logs together.
Who it is for
Home gardeners, allotment holders and anyone who wants a simple dated diary of their garden through the year.
How to use it
- Write the date the week starts at the top, and fill a line for each day you were in the garden, even if only the weather.
- Keep the panels going through the week: what is in flower, what pests turned up, what you bought.
- At the end of the week, list the jobs for next week and sum the week up in one line.
- File the pages in date order; a year of them is next year's planner.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: A week to a page: the weather, the jobs done, what went in and what came out each day, with what flowered, what went wrong and what is next.
Write-on lines: Garden or plot · Week commencing · Week no.
Also printed: Day · Weather · Jobs done · Sown or planted · Harvested · sky, rain, wind, frost · what, where · what, how much · Mon · Tue · Wed · Thu · Fri · Sat · Sun · In flower · Pests and problems seen · Bought · Jobs for next week
Write-on lines: Photo refs · The week in one line
Questions
How is this different from the specialist logs?
The sowing, harvest and greenhouse sheets each hold one kind of record in detail. This page catches a whole week in a few words, including the things that have no other sheet, so the specialist logs can be read against what else was going on.
What if I miss days?
Leave them blank. A diary with gaps is still a diary, and the weather noted on the days you were out is often the most useful thing in it a year later.
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