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Here's another great tip from BobVila.com.

Whether you’re fighting cabin fever this winter by planning next season’s garden or just looking for a good housewarming gift, a garden journal is a great tool.

Find a binder you like, add section dividers and fill it with graph paper for garden diagrams, pockets for plant labels and receipts, album pages for garden photos and plenty of sheets for notes.

Make up a checklist of the things you need to do each spring to clean up and prepare as well as a summer maintenance schedule. Research recommended plants for your area on your local extension service’s web site and save magazine articles and clippings in a special section.

There’s nothing more frustrating in the garden than repeating your mistakes year after year! Keep three years’ worth of notes about what new plants you added, what did well, what died, what you added to the soil and what you did to get rid of those aphids.

With a good garden plan and your notes and photos from last year, you can avoid doing extra work and buying things you don’t need. And you can share your journal with an expert to get more specific advice.

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