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make sure you have subscribed now let's get started in the video out we're on
series 3 of my Peter Rabbit series on how to have a cottage garden and this is
my rabbit which of course I named him Peter Rabbit and I just enjoy having him
out every springtime in the winter in the fall I put him away but every spring
he comes back out to visit and many people laugh about him in my videos
you're going to find Peter Rabbit at different places and it's up to you to
find out where he's at last year I did this and people were so excited about it
it was like finding a needle in the haystack so do you know where Peter is
so we're gonna put him away and we're gonna start on today's video today's
video is about how to have a garden journal and how to map out how you want
your garden but not if you don't have a garden like I do that utila each spring
but a lot of you have a garden that's a container garden everything that I do
you can have it as a container out on your porch or somewhere near your home
and so even with the container garden you can map it out and you can have a
little journal today I'm gonna share with you a special book Beatrix Potter's
journal and she inspired me to create my own journal and what is this let me show
you Beatrix Potter who was she she was a
beautiful woman who was an illustrator and wrote stories about her garden and
about all the creatures in her garden and this is an interactive journal which
is really very frugal priced if you buy it used here it's all kinds of replicas
of her different pages and different things that she done with pictures and
photos and when you run your hand across it it just is a beautiful tribute to
someone who lived a beautiful life I like to reflect this kind of life as
well and so my home comes bursting into life come spring and I'm always reminded
of Beatrix Potter I'm we'll show you all the photos but here
is letters that she wrote replicas replicas of her drawings and replicas of
her beautiful but today we're going to create our own journal so how do we
create our own journal I'm going to share with you in the description box
below where you can get all these free printables these principles are all free
and how you can print these out you can add them to your own journal this is the
Journal that I'm using and I got it for 75 cents at the thrift store so why are
we journaling and how do we do that it's very simple
with these printable print outs it's very easy to do exactly what it says so
this is my notes for this month and so I'm going to write down all of the
things that I planted in my videos
everybody's journal is going to be this different so mine March 12 is when I
plant my tomatoes
and March first I plant some herbs and
then you can get as detailed as you want or the least amount of details that you
want here's mrs. tittle Mouse and this is her print out which is so cute
strangers pilgrims on earth blog.com is my favorite and she no longer does any
kind of blogging but this is so beautiful the nabel's and the things
that she makes and I will share with you her names below so what we're going to
do is we are going to journal how we're gonna have our garden now some people do
the square foot gardening but I do my gardening different however you want it
to be and so I'm putting my garden how I am having it this year and I am having a
very old-fashioned Williamsburg Virginia cottage garden each year I'm getting
better and better at creating it
and then on here we can write if we're having you different plants and if we're
buying new plants you can put on our budget of what to plant you can have a
weekly plan when it comes towards the summer time so there's so many so many
printouts all that did is I googled free garden layouts and free garden planners
so here we can miss the herbs which as you seen in previous videos I'm going to
list all the herbs that I planted this year I'm going to list if they're
annuals and I'm gonna list if they're perennials for me I can't grow fruit
other than concord grapes because we have the deer I will use this column for
something different as far as vegetables we're going to plant all the traditional
vegetables other than corn because the deer eat the corn but everybody is
different and so how you want to plan out your garden maybe you want to plan
out your container garden I'm going to be doing a lot of that this year because
I have a large area where I can plant a lot of container gardens so we're going
to put the container gardening in here as well so it's a little bit like a
homework assignment but it's so exciting and I hope that you give it a try and I
hope that you produce a garden planner as well and through the years maybe you
will have a beach Potter garden journal just like this one how precious of an
heirloom would that be to give to your loved ones but now I'm going to share
with you something extremely special and share with you something that I hope
that you help me with in the course of having my channel and I meet a lot of
people and I met someone very dear and special to my heart and I hope she
becomes very dear and special to you she gave me a thank you and she said
that she would like to purchase some seeds for me because she said I've
helped her at a very difficult time in her life I'm not going to go into
extreme detail on it because this is going to be follow-up videos all summer
long but a year ago but about two years ago her daughter was in a
fire and her daughter had two small children and one of them passed away her
daughter was 90% burnt of her body from saving the trying to save the children
and she saved one of them her mother reached out to me and told me how she
watched my videos at a time when life seemed so bleak but instead of me
picking seeds out I felt like that was a wrong thing to do
I couldn't imagine picking seeds out having this person buy me seeds when
such a horrific story happened in her life but yet she wanted to bless me but
yet I wanted to bless her and this is where you all come in I told her to go
ahead and pick out the seeds and memory of her grandson and in honor of her
daughter and her granddaughter who survived here my friends she picked out
the garden seeds I told her whatever she picks out I'm going to plant in my
garden as a long lasting tribute to her grandson and to her daughter and
granddaughter so my friends you are going to follow me on this very special
and heartwarming journey this is planting seeds of hope in a time when
life seems so bleak I wanted to plant something in the memory of her grandson
and I want her to see them growing and as I plant these seeds I want you all to
remember the seeds of hope then remember for all the sadness that you're going
through in your life as I'm out in the garden and I'm planting these seeds that
you will feel hope as well this was a very touching story to me this was
something that I will never forget and I will always give tribute to this
beautiful woman and her family so she picked out these seeds for me and she
picked them out with thought after each one and I am very very thankful for her
and I will do exactly what she wished and I will plant every single one of
these and so stay tuned if I have permission I will show a
of the house but I will keep her identity private but I will share more
about her story coming up but this is what planting a garden is all about it's
sharing and sharing loved ones stories here as you know my father-in-law loved
yellow marigolds and when I hit 10,000 subscribers I gave away over 750 packs
of garden seeds for free I mailed them for free and they were in honor of my
father-in-law and many people got those yellow marigold I had a lovely
subscriber who donated the postage for all of those seeds and I lovingly
planted them harvested the seeds and sent the seeds out to many of you I wish
I could do this every year but it was such a monumental task that it was
almost impossible for me to do it but I got it done and the next following years
I'm hoping to be able to get seeds and I'm hoping to be able to give them
freely with a self-addressed stamped envelope but as of now this year I
cannot do that but it was a wonderful thing and I'm very excited to share with
all of you my gardening life and adventures and I hope that you start
journaling your garden adventures no matter how small or large they may be
maybe you have a dream garden that you can no longer plant but you love to have
a dream garden in a journal these are fun things that you can teach your
children and your grandchildren to cut out pictures and to have a garden of
their own take care everyone we'll see you guys tomorrow check out the video
below and that was when I had my ten thousand giveaway it was amazing come
see that garden and the seeds and that all the letters I mailed out it was
quite an interesting time in my life and I'll never forget it
that video is right here right below