Here are ten reasons for keeping a garden notebook or journal. Doing this will make your gardening chores more organized and hopefully easier.

 1. Keep diagrams of your garden beds with notations showing where the plants are located and the names of the plants. This way after some of the plants lose their leaves you will still be able to locate them when working in the garden. You can also mark locations where there is room for more plants.

Making compost is not that hard, after all Mother Nature has been making it for millions of years. For our purposes we will expand on what Mother Nature does naturally.