It’s so easy to use a Garden Journal to track your gardening successes. With the spring gardening season just around the corner, this is a great time to get out your seed packets and garden journal ...

If you've ever lost track of when you planted your basil or forgotten which tomato variety thrived last summer, it might be time to start a garden journal. Think of it as your garden's personal diary: ...

The new year is nearly here, and 2026 is another year to have high hopes for beautiful gardens and dependable weather forecasts. So here we are now, planning, making notes, looking at seed catalogs, ...

Scientists call this phenology—the study of seasonal changes in plants and animals. In the home garden, a simple notebook of bloom times, first frosts, and pest outbreaks becomes a personal ...

The older I get, the harder it is for me to remember what year something happened in my landscape or garden. I should have written things down. Maybe I should consider starting a garden journal in the ...

Editor’s note: This column previously ran in January 2013. It happens all the time. You really enjoyed a variety of corn or tomato but can’t remember its name when planting season comes around again.