My other tip is that the value of undated planners like this, especially living in Colorado where the growing season is relatively short is that you can use one undated yearly planner for multiple years. That's what I would do. Divide it into quarters and each quarter is a year. Or into thirds or halves depending on the growing season. Gardening is year round but I have found it's only during the growing season you need an actual separate planner. The other off-season tasks can be easily added to your main planner.
I have been gardening awhile but never in an organized way and that means I usually end up with bunches of seeds I never planted or didn't start on time, blah blah. I'm planning to treat the monthly calendars like a 5-year journal and just keep track of when I planted/started seeds/had a frost, etc. Maybe color code each year. I think it will be super helpful to see multiple years in one place!
Thank you for thinking of the Southern Hemisphere ❤ I can see using this for 1 year then using the perforations to migrate the useful pages I completed into a binder planner for the new year, or tipping them into another planner
I'm a lifetime gardener turned into a commercial grower. I'm also an avid functional bullet journaler, so I built my own garden planner/journal using some of the bujo principals in a cheap Michaels dot grid journal. I used to be a software engineer and data analyst, so I'm pretty proud of the system I've created. I've been hoping for a few years to get the time to really hone it into a commercial product that I could publish and sell to fellow journaling gardeners because I think there's a lot of benefit to writing and documenting what actually happened since the cycle of growing takes so long. It's not easy to remember from year to year with precise accuracy. My main concern with producing a journal for mass consumption is that I want really high quality materials and I know nothing about who one would even contact about sourcing good paper, or mass production book binding. And I've been too busy with the physical labor of growing my business the last few years to have the energy and attention to focus on this project during the off season. But if you or anyone else would be interested in consulting on it at a future date, let me know!
I have been in the planner community for at least 8 years and have tried so many different journals/planners in that time, made my own journals, also, have noticed trends that come and go. I am also a gardener and had a small garden on my porch in my apartment. I would be interested in talking with you about starting a gardening journal. I can say I don’t have a following on social media or anything like that but I have been designing stickers for myself and have a good sense about how to design and cut stickers using a silhouette. I think having two people with different mindsets could be interesting. I don’t know how you would want to connect but let me know whatcha think 😁
I’m just a bit north of you and this spring weather is so lovely! I’m trying so hard to remind myself that it isn’t safe yet because I want to plant all the things.
I have grown blue lake 274 bush beans and they are SO easy to grow from seed and easy to grow in a container. I have even grown them in a vertical planter. If you want to grow green beans I highly recommend! I have also grown red and purple beans, too. I was a Covid Gardner and have a small garden every year! I would have loved this! I just got an EC monthly planner and I am going to replace the lined pages for grid or dot and plan and track from there
I’m in year 8 of gardening, and think this would be super useful! I love the format and that it’s undated. I bought a cheapy planner at home goods this year with the intention to use it for garden tasks, note important dates, plan seed starting, and keep track of what worked and what didn’t… My last frost date just passed so it’s early in my season, but I think I’ve written in it three times? I’m a bujo planner normally, and I think maybe I just need to start including a couple spreads in that. I have dreams of starting everything exactly on time, and making detailed notes, and that’s just not me. Also- a Clyde’s garden planner is super helpful- you slide it to match your last frost date and it tells you when to start things inside or outside, when to transplant, when to harvest. And what I’ve found most important is tracking my first and last frost dates, when I started seeds, how long it took to germinate, when I moved plants outside, and when first harvest was. I also note wins/challenges so I can try to adjust the next year (aphids we’re crazy in June, start spraying neem halfway through the month before and etc.
The one time you're not doing a giveaway!🤣 * heads to Target * I'm not a gardener, but I can see myself adapting this to use for something else. $10? You can't beat that😄
This is a total "Cindy made me do it" journal. I have been using it to log things as I purchase and set up my garden for the summer here in Massachusetts. I've also been printing off grids and taking notes from Pinterest and blogs in it as well.
This was very helpful, thanks. I’m also planning for my first garden in a new area of the country and I’m finding I have lists all over the place of plants I want to try both in my yard and in the garden. I had no idea this planner existed but the price is right and Target is easily accessible so it’s kind of a no-brainer. Thank you!
Yes I would use some of those pages. I like to plant flowers and fruits and veggies to eat., … but … I have a “brown thumb” nothing usually makes it through the season.
As a long time gardener I use a notebook, its like a five year journal, so I just look at the tasks from the year before to make my to do and I have my collections at the back, garden plan, varieties that work well for me, the annual big jobs overview... If you're in Colorado i recommend gardener Scott's channel, he has a video or 2 on greenstalks too. Have fun gardening
Pretty seasoned gardener. I use a lot of the stuff they mention in that planner. I plan out weeks until final frost, and do start my seeds according to their appropriate week. I also plan out the garden on a grid.
I was literally just shopping for a gardening planner last week! But I bought a dot grid journal to use. I really like this though and am so tempted for $10!
IDK about most gardeners but all the ones I watch on YT keep a gardening notebook of some kind. It helps to find what plants/systems worked and what didn't etc. This one is comparable to a few others I have been looking at but actually looks like better quality (not like the paperback almost coloring book quality some have). I would pair this w a regular notebook so you can take detailed notes about gardening if you need to.
I live just south of you in Northern New Mexico buy the Colorado boarder and Mother's Day is a good rule of thumb to use. However watch your weather, you may want to wait a week or so before planing outside. New Mexico has not made up their mind on what kind of weather will be thrown at us. We are still getting below freezing at night, that is odd for us. But enjoy planting and growing, it is so much fun...
I looove those watering stickers and have to see what possible options like this I find online as I have started planting and growing succulents and have honestly neglected my beautiful flowers mostly because I forget to water them and I want to start setting apart time quarterly to repot the ones that need it
I thought about getting this...but I was extremely tight on my budget so I didn't and I survived! Lol. Honestly, I just used a notebook and pen and jotted down my thoughts and sketches to figure out the plants I wanted and where to plant everything. I didn't need a fancy planner for it.
Gardening isn't my thing but if I were to give it a try, this looks like a really good planner. I already keep the basics in my planner. Daily weather to help alert me if my few plants are thirsty, too hot, too cold. Seasonal notations for trimming, lawn pre-emergent, fertilize lawn/plants. Lawn gets done twice, plants twice even though I understand quarterly is better unless I'm being lazy then at least once. And the dreaded re-pot when I just can't stand it anymore usually October. Pink zone, whatever that is..Of course, I talk to my plants. The oldest is about 35-40 yrs so I must be doing good enough for rock and roll. Good luck and have fun with it!
My sister here in UT makes her plan on scraps of paper. She set up a seed starter tray but kids messed up her paper. I keep trying to direct her to something like this that would be more helpful but wont. It’s her way to recycle mail. But then looses things. D’oh
especially for small scale backyard gardening, i think a lot of people feel like its really confusing, challenging, and hard and it prohibits people from trying it This planner seems to somewhat overcomplicate things and if a brand new gardener thought this was all totoally necessary to do in order to have a few things in the backyard i could see how it would feel like way too much for a few years now, ive had a small backyard garden with tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, herbs, cucumbers... what i would focus on: *knowing when to put the seeds or plants in the ground is the main thing *making sure plants have appropriate distance (room to grow big enough to get sufficient harvest) *know if/when/how to prune *maintain proper water control *knowing how to notice beginning of insects or infection for each plant so you can catch things early and address it *know when to harvest This comes more from “feel” and experience than from using a planner like this, in my opinion. You have to water stuff based on ever changing conditions not just when a planner says to water. Im always amazed: nature is generally resilient and doesnt *need* to be planned and maintained to this level (if its fun and you like it, then go for it). It is necessary to plan out timelines ahead of time based on your areas growing season and how long it takes each thing to grow, but once in the ground, it doesnt need to be this complicated. A lot of it has to just come naturally through experimenting and learning from each crop... once you get in tune, nature will tell you what it needs (if anything) and its something that i enjoy doing just by intuition and being in tune with nature. Theres so much of life to plan out to this level of detail but a garden can be a place to escape that and try to be more focused on getting familiar with nature. I learned sooooo much from the Roots and Refuge youtube channel. And thats helped me approach the garden in an adaptable way. I think a planner suggests nature can be planned out and its just not always that way. You have to just go with the flow - weather changes, bugs come up, etc... a good gardener adapts to what comes up and doesnt give up if something ends up not going well after one try. 💕
I was thinking this would be 90% documentation of what was done, rather than mostly planning. My husband and I have terrible memories, so it would be helpful to know what soil additives were done when or when the plants were actually put into the ground, when the first and last frosts were in previous years, etc. I think of gardening as an iterative / trial and error learning process, which really requires you to remember what didn't work as well as what did.
@@annec8127 that's how I use mine. Its a useful record to refer back to. Essentially if you have things like fruit trees which need only seasonal fertilizing vs something like vegetables. It can be really helpful
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo. 388 sentadillas son unos Kimmy-jka.Monster muchas y un buen ejercicio. Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados 😍👍 Saludos desde la Cd.. de world 🌹😉💖 los mortalesx abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer.k
My other tip is that the value of undated planners like this, especially living in Colorado where the growing season is relatively short is that you can use one undated yearly planner for multiple years. That's what I would do. Divide it into quarters and each quarter is a year. Or into thirds or halves depending on the growing season. Gardening is year round but I have found it's only during the growing season you need an actual separate planner. The other off-season tasks can be easily added to your main planner.
I have been gardening awhile but never in an organized way and that means I usually end up with bunches of seeds I never planted or didn't start on time, blah blah. I'm planning to treat the monthly calendars like a 5-year journal and just keep track of when I planted/started seeds/had a frost, etc. Maybe color code each year. I think it will be super helpful to see multiple years in one place!
Thank you for thinking of the Southern Hemisphere ❤
I can see using this for 1 year then using the perforations to migrate the useful pages I completed into a binder planner for the new year, or tipping them into another planner
I love that!!! I made my own out of a normal notebook! But I love how they are incorporating these new types of journals in the market.
I'm a lifetime gardener turned into a commercial grower. I'm also an avid functional bullet journaler, so I built my own garden planner/journal using some of the bujo principals in a cheap Michaels dot grid journal. I used to be a software engineer and data analyst, so I'm pretty proud of the system I've created. I've been hoping for a few years to get the time to really hone it into a commercial product that I could publish and sell to fellow journaling gardeners because I think there's a lot of benefit to writing and documenting what actually happened since the cycle of growing takes so long. It's not easy to remember from year to year with precise accuracy. My main concern with producing a journal for mass consumption is that I want really high quality materials and I know nothing about who one would even contact about sourcing good paper, or mass production book binding. And I've been too busy with the physical labor of growing my business the last few years to have the energy and attention to focus on this project during the off season. But if you or anyone else would be interested in consulting on it at a future date, let me know!
I have been in the planner community for at least 8 years and have tried so many different journals/planners in that time, made my own journals, also, have noticed trends that come and go. I am also a gardener and had a small garden on my porch in my apartment. I would be interested in talking with you about starting a gardening journal. I can say I don’t have a following on social media or anything like that but I have been designing stickers for myself and have a good sense about how to design and cut stickers using a silhouette. I think having two people with different mindsets could be interesting. I don’t know how you would want to connect but let me know whatcha think 😁
I’m just a bit north of you and this spring weather is so lovely! I’m trying so hard to remind myself that it isn’t safe yet because I want to plant all the things.
Thank you for this video! I will check out that planner as a potential birthday gift for a friend.
Ohhh! I might need to pick this up. Thanks Cindy!!
"A metric shit-ton of little watery drops" 😂😂😂😂
I have grown blue lake 274 bush beans and they are SO easy to grow from seed and easy to grow in a container. I have even grown them in a vertical planter. If you want to grow green beans I highly recommend! I have also grown red and purple beans, too. I was a Covid Gardner and have a small garden every year! I would have loved this! I just got an EC monthly planner and I am going to replace the lined pages for grid or dot and plan and track from there
I’m in year 8 of gardening, and think this would be super useful! I love the format and that it’s undated.
I bought a cheapy planner at home goods this year with the intention to use it for garden tasks, note important dates, plan seed starting, and keep track of what worked and what didn’t… My last frost date just passed so it’s early in my season, but I think I’ve written in it three times?
I’m a bujo planner normally, and I think maybe I just need to start including a couple spreads in that. I have dreams of starting everything exactly on time, and making detailed notes, and that’s just not me.
Also- a Clyde’s garden planner is super helpful- you slide it to match your last frost date and it tells you when to start things inside or outside, when to transplant, when to harvest.
And what I’ve found most important is tracking my first and last frost dates, when I started seeds, how long it took to germinate, when I moved plants outside, and when first harvest was. I also note wins/challenges so I can try to adjust the next year (aphids we’re crazy in June, start spraying neem halfway through the month before and etc.
The one time you're not doing a giveaway!🤣 * heads to Target *
I'm not a gardener, but I can see myself adapting this to use for something else. $10? You can't beat that😄
This is a total "Cindy made me do it" journal. I have been using it to log things as I purchase and set up my garden for the summer here in Massachusetts. I've also been printing off grids and taking notes from Pinterest and blogs in it as well.
This was very helpful, thanks. I’m also planning for my first garden in a new area of the country and I’m finding I have lists all over the place of plants I want to try both in my yard and in the garden. I had no idea this planner existed but the price is right and Target is easily accessible so it’s kind of a no-brainer. Thank you!
The budget mom recently put out a video where she went through her garden plan. It looked very helpful :)
Thanks for this review, a subscriber from ... Australia!
Yes I would use some of those pages. I like to plant flowers and fruits and veggies to eat., … but … I have a “brown thumb” nothing usually makes it through the season.
As a long time gardener I use a notebook, its like a five year journal, so I just look at the tasks from the year before to make my to do and I have my collections at the back, garden plan, varieties that work well for me, the annual big jobs overview... If you're in Colorado i recommend gardener Scott's channel, he has a video or 2 on greenstalks too. Have fun gardening
Pretty seasoned gardener. I use a lot of the stuff they mention in that planner. I plan out weeks until final frost, and do start my seeds according to their appropriate week. I also plan out the garden on a grid.
I was literally just shopping for a gardening planner last week! But I bought a dot grid journal to use. I really like this though and am so tempted for $10!
IDK about most gardeners but all the ones I watch on YT keep a gardening notebook of some kind. It helps to find what plants/systems worked and what didn't etc. This one is comparable to a few others I have been looking at but actually looks like better quality (not like the paperback almost coloring book quality some have). I would pair this w a regular notebook so you can take detailed notes about gardening if you need to.
I just have plants on my deck and still like to have notes about the few things I plant.
I live just south of you in Northern New Mexico buy the Colorado boarder and Mother's Day is a good rule of thumb to use. However watch your weather, you may want to wait a week or so before planing outside. New Mexico has not made up their mind on what kind of weather will be thrown at us. We are still getting below freezing at night, that is odd for us. But enjoy planting and growing, it is so much fun...
Also try to grow kale now and corn in the summer!
I looove those watering stickers and have to see what possible options like this I find online as I have started planting and growing succulents and have honestly neglected my beautiful flowers mostly because I forget to water them and I want to start setting apart time quarterly to repot the ones that need it
I thought about getting this...but I was extremely tight on my budget so I didn't and I survived! Lol. Honestly, I just used a notebook and pen and jotted down my thoughts and sketches to figure out the plants I wanted and where to plant everything. I didn't need a fancy planner for it.
Oo! I’m interested in trying this out. I’m a noob gardener who needs checklists and plans. Otherwise everything just dies! 😅
I think this is a great planner for beginner. It will last for several seasons
Gardening isn't my thing but if I were to give it a try, this looks like a really good planner. I already keep the basics in my planner. Daily weather to help alert me if my few plants are thirsty, too hot, too cold. Seasonal notations for trimming, lawn pre-emergent, fertilize lawn/plants. Lawn gets done twice, plants twice even though I understand quarterly is better unless I'm being lazy then at least once. And the dreaded re-pot when I just can't stand it anymore usually October. Pink zone, whatever that is..Of course, I talk to my plants. The oldest is about 35-40 yrs so I must be doing good enough for rock and roll. Good luck and have fun with it!
I love your nail colour
My only concern is that I would expect a garden planner to have a bit of a sturdier cover.
Green beans are great. Stick with bush beans ..they stay only so high and grow like weeds ☺️
My sister here in UT makes her plan on scraps of paper. She set up a seed starter tray but kids messed up her paper. I keep trying to direct her to something like this that would be more helpful but wont. It’s her way to recycle mail. But then looses things. D’oh
especially for small scale backyard gardening, i think a lot of people feel like its really confusing, challenging, and hard and it prohibits people from trying it
This planner seems to somewhat overcomplicate things and if a brand new gardener thought this was all totoally necessary to do in order to have a few things in the backyard i could see how it would feel like way too much
for a few years now, ive had a small backyard garden with tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, herbs, cucumbers... what i would focus on:
*knowing when to put the seeds or plants in the ground is the main thing
*making sure plants have appropriate distance (room to grow big enough to get sufficient harvest)
*know if/when/how to prune
*maintain proper water control
*knowing how to notice beginning of insects or infection for each plant so you can catch things early and address it
*know when to harvest
This comes more from “feel” and experience than from using a planner like this, in my opinion. You have to water stuff based on ever changing conditions not just when a planner says to water.
Im always amazed: nature is generally resilient and doesnt *need* to be planned and maintained to this level (if its fun and you like it, then go for it). It is necessary to plan out timelines ahead of time based on your areas growing season and how long it takes each thing to grow, but once in the ground, it doesnt need to be this complicated.
A lot of it has to just come naturally through experimenting and learning from each crop... once you get in tune, nature will tell you what it needs (if anything) and its something that i enjoy doing just by intuition and being in tune with nature. Theres so much of life to plan out to this level of detail but a garden can be a place to escape that and try to be more focused on getting familiar with nature.
I learned sooooo much from the Roots and Refuge youtube channel. And thats helped me approach the garden in an adaptable way.
I think a planner suggests nature can be planned out and its just not always that way. You have to just go with the flow - weather changes, bugs come up, etc... a good gardener adapts to what comes up and doesnt give up if something ends up not going well after one try. 💕
I was thinking this would be 90% documentation of what was done, rather than mostly planning. My husband and I have terrible memories, so it would be helpful to know what soil additives were done when or when the plants were actually put into the ground, when the first and last frosts were in previous years, etc.
I think of gardening as an iterative / trial and error learning process, which really requires you to remember what didn't work as well as what did.
@@annec8127 that's how I use mine. Its a useful record to refer back to. Essentially if you have things like fruit trees which need only seasonal fertilizing vs something like vegetables. It can be really helpful
@@annec8127 thats a good idea !
Really comprehensive walk through of the planner. Thank you. Only thing I would change is the swearing which felt to me to be unnecessary.
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo. 388 sentadillas son unos Kimmy-jka.Monster muchas y un buen ejercicio. Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados 😍👍 Saludos desde la Cd.. de world 🌹😉💖 los mortalesx abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer.k