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.

• Planting guides for Chico Valley Area and the Foothills
• Common Garden Pests
• Beneficial Insects

Links

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

• Firewise Landscapes
• Cal Fire's comprehensive Homeowners Checklist.

Pg. 8 UC Davis Arboretum All-Star plants

Pg. 11 Drought and Water-Wise Gardening

Pg. 11 Planting Design Basics articles

• What Can I Give My Plants
• What Garden Style do I Want?
• What Plant “Jobs” Need to be Filled in My Garden?
• Developing a Plant List
• Is My Yard Ready to Plant?

Pg. 15 Butte County All-Stars

Pg. 20 Integrated Pest Management

• UC Davis IPM website
• UC Master Gardeners of Butte County Hotline

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

• Pest Notes library
• Hornworms
• Cutworms

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. Click on an image for a larger view.

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. Download and print our Seasonal divider pages in color for extra pizzazz.

Add clear pockets for small items such as brochures and seed packets.

Create sections for additional materials and research notes.

Use the build-in graph paper for garden plans or add your own.