Gardener's Log Book - 5-Year Planner — By The New York Botanical Garden

This durable Gardener's Log Book is the perfect place for recording the evolving story of your garden. It is intended to help gardeners from all plant hardiness zones and every level of experience organize their activities and chart their gardens' growth, changes and development over five years. 

The log is divided by season, beginning with winter for planning, catalogue consulting and ordering. Use it throughout the seasons, from building catalog wish lists early in the year, to noting the first signs of Spring, to recording what vegetable crops you planted and their yield, to organizing yourself for bulb planting in Fall, to, finally, putting the garden to bed for the winter.

A five-year grid at the beginning of each month offers space to note annual garden cycles over time, and journal entry pages are lined for notes or graphed for diagramming plantings. 

This weatherproof log book includes the following features:

• Sturdy waterproof cover to protect pages from rain and muddy soil and concealed spiral binding for easy entry writing
• Lined pages and gridded paper for plotting beds
• Five years of 12-month bloom and harvest grids for recording what you planted and   when
• Authoritative appendices on composting, pruning, pest and disease control, and container gardening
• Useful reminders by season on fertilizing, mulching, and transplanting
• Plant Hardiness Zone Map for North America
• Moon cycle map
• Space for listing your favorite sources and suppliers

Following the Plant Hardiness Zone map of North America at the front of the book are double-page spreads of grids with spaces for entering bloom and harvest times over a 12-month period. The main body of the book offers ruled and gridded pages for note-taking and plotting.

This log book should become as indispensible as a good pair of clippers. It will give you a deeper knowledge of the planting, nourishing, blooming, and harvesting cycles in your garden.

Whether you tend a window box, a cutting garden, or many raised vegetable beds, this is the perfect write-in companion to chart your gardening journey. 

THE DETAILS

FORMAT: New, hardcover, waterproof

PUBLISHED: February 6, 2018

ISBN: 9781524759070

PUBLISHER: New York Botanical Garden / Clarkson Potter

PAGES: 240

DIMENSIONS: 7.7 inches H x 5.1 inches W x 1.2 inches T

RATING: ★★★★★ 

ABOUT THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN

The New York Botanical Garden is an iconic living museum founded in 1891. It is a National Historic Landmark, with 250 acres supporting over one million living plants. Each year more than one million people visit the grounds to enjoy the remarkable diversity of flora and and to attend belowved annual events such as The Holiday Train Show and The Orchid Show.