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    DIYGarden Journal

    Nov 30, 2018 4 minutes
    By Carole Coates

    WINTER MONTHS ARE MADE for indoor projects, so why not spend some of this time making yourself a garden journal? Many gardeners keep some kind of planting diary, and you can find any number of them to purchase online. Personally, I couldn’t find anything that fit my needs. They were too generic, too specific, too small, irrelevant, or some combination of these.

    So I decided to make my own. It’s more than a journal; it’s a notebook. I know my notebook won’t suit everyone’s needs. It’s too big to lug around, for example, and some folks like having their journal handy when they’re in the garden so

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