Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #333958 in Books
• Published on: 1999-02-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 192 pages

From Amazon.com
The need for keeping a garden diary is as apparent as the limitations of our memories. Not only do we frequently lose plant names, but also freeze dates and garden triumphs as well as failures. Beautiful enough to give as a gift, and practical enough to use yourself everyday, The New Three-Year Garden Journal should work better than the many notebooks one begins and discards over the years.

Each month begins with advice on plants and design; herbs, climbers, shrubs, trees, annuals and bulbs are all discussed and illustrated with color photos. Then for each month, weather warnings are given by region of the country (April: danger of frost continues in the Northeast, September: extreme heat still possible in the mid-South), and tasks for each week of the month, divided by the same seven regions. Pruning, fertilizing, planting, and maintenance tasks are described alongside lined pages for each of the three years.

It is clear that The New Three Year Garden Journal was designed by a gardener. Chock full of information, it is spiral-bound to lay flat so it's easy to write in. Carry it with you into the garden, glue in photos or sketch ideas on the pages of graph paper, dream over the lovely color photos. This is a book to use over and over again during the three-year period it covers, then look back at for years into the future. --Valerie Easton

Customer Reviews

Not exactly what I was looking for...
I am a very new gardener so I was looking for a book with more space for writing about the plants that I have and how I need to care for them. The pictures are lovely and the book is informative if you live in the US, but since it is geared towards American gardeners, there is very little useful knowledge for those of us living in Zone 3 in Canada. I mean, as if I can do anything in my garden December through March?
I really would have preferred to design my own journal, but I wanted to find something that would help me learn a bit too. Perhaps a pocket in the front or back to keep my plant tags in, a section devoted to the trees that I have in my yard so I can record when I need to fertilize or prune them again, or at least enough room to write about my garden, and not just what I have done every week.
Ultimately, this journal does provide some sound advice, but it was just not what I was looking for. This journal is not meant for the remedial gardener. People like me who are just trying to keep everything alive!

The New Three-Year Garden Journal:With Regional Planning gui
This is a great book. There is plenty of space provided for you to write about your garden for every week of the year. It is also very informative. It gives specific info. for every zone in many different gardening topics for every month. And it has a special topic it goes into depth for for every month of the year. There are beautiful photographs throughout the entire book. It also has graph pages for designing gardens. I have recommended this book to quite a few friends who have loved it.