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Comment on Bees 101 – Raising Our First Hive by Connie Schultz

Connie Schultz — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:42:21 +0000

Great pictures! Thanks!

Comment on Wordless Wednesday: Tree Peonies by Nancy K

Nancy K — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:22:42 +0000

My Bartzella Itoh peony in Coastal NC was amazingly beautiful this year. Wish I could share the photos here with you! Wasn’t sure how much they would bloom here in zone 8A, but I had 5 huge yellow perfect blooms.

Comment on Simple Ways to Start a Garden Journal by Carla Albright

Carla Albright — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:34:41 +0000

I’m glad my tips have been helpful. Keep in mind this is a personal task that will help for the future, not to be seen as a chore equal to, say, weedingor cleaning pots. Make if fun and you will be more likely to keep going. And one of the most fun things about journaling is to look back once you have a few years under your belt and see what was happening when you first started keeping track. I’ll bet you find all sorts of progress, not only in the garden but in your journal. ~ Carla

Comment on Simple Ways to Start a Garden Journal by Margret B

Margret B — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:11:24 +0000

I’ve realized journaling will probably help me so I’ve been trying to get started. So far I’ve saved tags and taken pictures. I’ve got an old yard with lots of wonderful bushes and trees and lots of other stuff run rampant. I like your ideas.

Comment on Simple Ways to Start a Garden Journal by Nancy Boyd

Nancy Boyd — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:54:07 +0000

Hi Carla,

Thanks for the many helpful hints on starting a gardening journal. I started my garden last year (raised beds) and used a composition book as a journal. Hopefully more will be recorded in the journal this year as I go along. I like to use mine for a tracking purpose; however, I find that combining several different types of journaling have occurred. Thanks again for the much needed guidance and information.

Nancy

Comment on Gardening for Pollinators Webinar Resources by Karen Jeannette

Karen Jeannette — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:59:29 +0000

Thanks, Jessica. It looks like many gardeners from across the country are already participating. Thanks for letting us know about it!

Comment on Gardening for Pollinators Webinar Resources by jessica

jessica — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:28:29 +0000

Native Buzz-citizen scientist project, monitoring solitary native bees

Comment on Simple Ways to Start a Garden Journal by Karen Jeannette

Karen Jeannette — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:11:06 +0000

HI Carla,

Like Gail, I don’t know if I have one system, but I do take cryptic notes about what blooms when in a note book — usually some of the same plants from year to year. This year we are about 3 weeks behind the growing pattern we’ve observed for the last 6 years or so…

I also take photos every year of my plants, like you mentioned. I store them (and share them) on Flickr. In Flickr I can go back in the archives (example here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38395710@N07/archives/) and compare the photos I’ve taken in May, for example….using Flickr takes a lot of the pressure off of organizing things all at once.

I do like your idea of saving your plant tags in a notebook. I think I’ll try and keep that up. In my opinion, knowing the plant name is half the battle of solving any garden problems that may arise. AND, keeping the plant tags in a couple sleeves in a binder looks pretty easy to do….

In summary, my garden journal in current form would include: cryptic notes about what blooms when, photo gallery on Flickr, a few pages of plant tabs in a three ring binder.

Thanks for inspiring us all to think about what would be helpful!

Comment on Simple Ways to Start a Garden Journal by Gail L.

Gail L. — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 01:13:37 +0000

Fantastic blog post, Carla. I have struggled over many years to come up with a journal system that meets my needs (informative, brief and doesn’t feel like ‘one more thing I have to do’). I really appreciate your offering different journaling options that can be adopted and modified to meet many different needs. I also appreciate your offering insights gained from your own journal entries. Thank you so much for sharing.

Comment on Bees 101 – Starting our Colony by Gladys Hutson

Gladys Hutson — Thu, 30 May 2013 22:11:54 +0000

Thanks Lauren,
This is exciting for me too, to talk to the world about my bees.
Let’s hope for a big harvest!
Gladys