Chores Calendar
If you keep a Garden Journal like the one below, it will help you put together a Chores Calendar for next year. Next year you’ll be organized and ready to tackle each step with confidence and patience. Use your 3-ring binder or a notepad and leave at least 4 lines to record the chores you need to complete each month. Highlight things you want to remember to do differently next year. Example of a Chores Calendar March - April: Planned this year’s garden. Chose new plants to try and read up on them. Sent away for mail order catalogues and seeds. May: Checked soil type in the garden. Slightly clay but balanced pH. Tilled and marked rows. Made row labels and planted seeds for cool soil. Pre-germinated annuals in the nursery. June: Soil warmed by the 18th. Hardened off seedlings and planted seeds in the garden. Mulched with carpet and hay. Thinned first carrots and flowers by month end. July: Weeded, thinned, checked for bugs and fertilized corn silks. Picked ripe veggies. *July 21-28: Garden Assessment Week: garden well marked and labelled. August: Thinned carrots again and thinned flowers. Picked ripe veggies: great baby carrots. Put mineral oil on new corn silks. *Selected best plants for Junior Show Competition. Sent in registration. September: First frost warnings on the 19th. Dug up vegetables and conditioned cut flowers for Junior Show on 28th. Picked last of the harvest. Composted plants killed by first frost on 25th. October: Pulled up dead plant material. Added leaves and compost to soil. Cleaned up the garden. Stored carpet mulch in shed. Winter: Sent away for mail order catalogues and 2 gardening books. Even if you model your Chores Calendar on the one above it will be a little different to reflect your selection of plants and vegetables. Customize it however you like. If you do your Chores as quickly and efficiently as possible you will have more time to enjoy your garden.
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