Garden Maintenance Calendar
The jobs you have decided to do each month, in your own words.
Garden hub
What was sown when, what came up, what the harvest weighed, and which machines need servicing before spring.
101 items on this subject: 20 resources, 80 printable sheets and 1 tools.
Printable, fillable and online — garden, outdoor and equipment.
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.
From the sheet library — outdoor machines · garden and growing · growing results and crops.
Keep a mower running past its fifth year, by tracking the three things that actually kill them: stale fuel, a blocked air filter and neglected oil.
Keep the chain and bar specifications where you can find them, and track sharpening and servicing between them.
Plan a growing year on one page using the sowing times that apply where you garden, rather than a calendar printed for somebody else's climate.
Get the plot down on paper to a consistent scale, so bed lengths, seed quantities and next year's rotation can be worked out in the warm.
Know what is already in the seed box, and whether it still comes up, before you spend January ordering another copy of it.
Turn a season of odd handfuls and full trugs into one running total per crop, so next year's planting is decided by what the plot produced rather than by memory.
All outdoor machinesAll garden and growingAll growing results and crops
Build a month-by-month garden calendar for the things you actually grow, in your own climate.
Small engines, tractors, generators and boats are specified in running hours rather than dates. What an hour really measures, and how to track them without a meter.
Stale fuel is why most mowers, strimmers and generators fail after storage. What happens inside the carburettor, and the two storage methods that prevent it.
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