By Cindy Naas

I am really big on keeping a detailed gardener’s journal.

My memory isn’t nearly as good as I am sometimes tempted to think it is, and I don’t want to lose the names of current favorite veggies I’ve enjoyed growing.

I also don’t want to make the same mistakes in next year’s garden that I made this year.

This year, my upside -down tomato pot was stolen early in the growing season, so I still have no opinion of how that worked. I intend to try it again next summer. My grape tomatoes did not live up to expectation and will not be grown again. The heirloom Brandywines were heavy croppers as usual.

The early lettuces did well, however Read the rest of this entry »

By Cindy Naas

Several years ago a friend gave me my first garden journal notebook.

This friend is not a gardener but is a compulsive journaler, and was sure that I would enjoy keeping a journal about the garden each year.

At first I wasn’t convinced, but after using it for one season I am an ardent advocate of keeping a garden journal.

Growing Ideas

Each summer as I wander through my newly-planted garden I think about what I’d like to do differently next summer. Before I began journaling, many of those ideas just disappeared. Now, however, Read the rest of this entry »