My Gardening Journal (Quiet Fox Designs) Organize Your Gardening Life: Set Annual Goals, Chart Garden Design, Keep a Record of Your Work, Track Crop Performance, and Note What You Learn Each Season

It was a gift and I believe it was well received

Was bought this by a family member to avoid paying shipping. I read the reviews and felt confident it would fit my needs since they were largely positive, but I suppose my needs vastly differ as I'm mildly disappointed with this book.Pros:- It's a well-made book. Absolutely no qualms with the paper or print quality, the pages feel sturdy but easy to open, and overall is a delight to look at.- Has a few helpful pages such as a guide on how to plant things, an equipment checklist, compost bin tracker, good companion plants, etc.Neutrals:- It's an American book. I'm sure the Canadian and USA heat map is very useful to someone living in North America, but is absolutely useless to someone like me living in the UK. As such the measurements are also in imperial, but they've put metric measurements in brackets beside it so it' s not too much of a problem.- Continuing on from the problem above, I'm sure the recommended vegetables and plants are probably also catered to gardeners in North America. There's some common fruit and veg there but you'd still have to look it up to see if the plant can (or should, in case of invasive species) grow where you live.I didn't want to mark either of these points as cons but seeing as it's got the RRP in UK currency on the back and it's being sold on UK Amazon, yet they didn't bother to make a single change to the book to make it more useful for customers here I thought I would mention it.Cons:- No week-by-week calendar. There's nowhere to actually plan your gardening, only spaces to plan where things going to go. Nowhere to write when to prune, water, thin out, etc., no individual weekly growth tracking. The plant diary says Year 1, 2, so forth - it assumes you're writing about the plants once a year!! That's no good!- Some parts are a bit confusing on how you're meant to fill it in. It says to use the Sun log once a month "throughout the growth period", but there's absolutely not enough room to use the tiny 3cm long box for that. Besides, gardening is a year-round deal - what about winter veg or winter flowering shrubs?- There's this weird dichotomy of having both too little space to write information yet having too many pages in the "Plant Diary". The diary is half of the book, each double page spread split into 4 years, there's enough of these pages to cover probably 50+ individual plant species. Yet on every other page there's maybe only 4 spaces for entries per year, for example the pests and diseases page has 4 squares to write on per year. They expect us to have 50+ plants yet give us barely any room to log about it otherwise?Overall it isn't even close to what I had hoped for. I used too much common sense when purchasing it ("Surely a gardening journal has a weekly calendar inside it! It's just not in the pictures!" I thought optimistically), but it's far too much effort to try and return it, so I suppose I'll have to find some reason to use it. The journals scope is just too long and vague - it expects users to log progress merely once a year when most plants need far more in-depth tracking than that.

good book to have. easy to use.

Really great book. As a year 1 gardener, it is extremely useful for planning my garden, keeping track of my seed collection and so much more. Getting ready this season. Time to get out my book.

This is a handy garden journal

This is a great starting journal for a newbie like myself. There are a lot of prompts and information, it's beautifully designed, and there are quite a lot of pages to fill out for tracking your plants' processes. It contains: a color coded map of temperature zones (to let you know which one you're in and inform your plant hardiness), a goals page, a page to track where you have full sun/partial sun/shade in your garden, a pests tracking page, and three years of plant history tracking, among other things.The only drawback is that there are only three pages for the garden layout, one for each year. I have three areas of gardening around my house that I want to track what I'm putting and where, and what I want to remove and replace with other plants in the future. I'm not sure there are enough dotted pages for what I want to do, but I'll try to be creative.Otherwise, this is a great book, just the right size, and easy to lay flat.

I like the different sections that allow you to keep track of different things like sun coverage, composting and other things in addition to pages to track each type of plant you’re growing. This is set up to be used over multiple years.