While gardening is definitely a fun hobby, it can also be a long and tedious process because there is so much to do here. In fact, a lot of times these tasks associated with gardening must happen at certain times. If they’re not, it could screw up everything. That’s why it is best if you organize your gardening chores ahead of time. You’ll stay up-to-date on everything while getting what needs to be done on time.
Organize Gardening Chores
1. Buy a calendar
- You’ll want to invest in a calendar so that you can record all of your gardening chores ahead of time. It doesn’t matter if you choose a wall calendar or one that you can leave on desk. That’s up to you. However, you want a calendar that is portable so that you can bring it out to the garden with you, as well as one that gives you plenty of room to write down the details and specifics associated with the chores.
2. Use junk paper to draft up your chores
- Before you start writing down all your gardening chores on the calendar, you should make a list of the tasks on some kind of scratch paper. This will give you room to come up with the very best plan for your specific needs. The list should cover the entire year and cover both regular tasks like weeding and watering and seasonal chores such as harvesting and buying seeds.
3. Write the chores on your calendar
- After you’re done double-checking your list, it is time to start filling in the tasks on their specific date. You should always write down the date of the last frost so that you can set dates for tasks accordingly.
4. Save your calendar
- One great thing about organizing your chores and writing them down in a calendar is that you now have a reference to go by for future seasons. For example, if you grew a crop of carrots and they exceeded your expectations, you can go back to your calendar and see the exact days that you planted and harvested them. If needed, you even have the power to check with an online almanac to see the temperatures on those given days.
Do you have other ideas to organize gardening chores?
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