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Garden Guide Extras

How to use the Garden Guide & Three-Year Journal

The Guide is full of information to help you on your gardening journey. Besides a wide range of articles, the weekly journal layout includes information pertinent for that week. The appendix is a helpful reference on planting, insects, and orchards.

Tips

  • Use the Guide (and other resources) to note time sensitive tasks such as planting, fertilizing, pruning, and cleanup.
  • Use 1 column per year to record 3 years of observations about what is happening in your yard.
  • Use previous year’s notes as a reference point for tasks, or to document how your yard has changed over time.
  • Use the grid paper at the end of each section to plot your garden.
  • Add information from other sources.
  • Watch our video workshop for more tips!

Downloads

Download and print color versions of these Guide pages.

What can I do with an unbound Garden Guide?

Customize it!

We are now offering the Garden Guide in an unbound version, pre-punched to fit into a 3-ring binder. This allows you to adapt and add information per your personal garden style.

Slip in binder for the Garden Guide and Three-Year Journal
Slip the cover into the front of the binder. Need an extra Garden Guide Cover?
Create distinct sections by using tabbed dividers with clear pockets for the divider pages.
Create distinct sections by using tabbed dividers with clear pockets for the divider pages. Download and print our Seasonal divider pages in color for extra pizzazz.
Keep seed packets in the pockets.
Add clear pockets for small items such as brochures and seed packets. 
Create sections for additional materials and research notes.
Create sections for additional materials and research notes.
Use the built-in graph paper for garden plans, or add your own.
Use the build-in graph paper for garden plans or add your own.


Links in the Guide

These links are in the 2020 edition of the Garden Guide & Three-Year Journal. Instead of typing in the links, use this clickable list instead.

*Indicates links that have changed since the Guide was published.

Pg. 7 Firewise Landscaping

Pg. 8 UC Davis Arboretum All-Star plants

Pg. 11 Drought and Water-Wise Gardening

Pg. 11 Planting Design Basics articles

Pg. 15 Butte County All-Stars

Pg. 20 Integrated Pest Management

Pg. 45 Creating a defensible space*

Pg. 58 Beneficial insects

Pg. 80 Growing berries

Pg. 131 Water-wise gardening

Pg. 151 Pests and diseases affecting fruit trees

Pg. 153 Common Garden Pests