Hello everyone,
I have been keeping a garden journal for over 10 years. I started with a commercial notebook that, oddly enough, had metal covers and permanently captured pages. It was about half an inch thick, so I filled it up in a couple of years.
I did remember that I had gotten my garden journal wet on several occasions. I usually took it with me into the garden to make notes as they occurred to me. On more than one occasion I got caught in a sudden shower, and the journal got wet.
So I decided that my next garden journal would be a looseleaf notebook that was waterproof and weatherproof, and I started searching Amazon for a candidate. I found the items I needed in the "Rite in the Rain" products.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n...
The Rite in the Rain products are used primarily by military personnel and university personnel for field operations, but I have found them to work well in my garden as well. I devote a page to each of my favorite breeder zinnias, including a description including maternal parent, planting date, bloom color and size, plant habit, and pollinating plants used. I use the Rite in the Rain loose leaf binders and waterproof filler paper.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n...
Their waterproof nature has continued to be key, because my garden journals continue to get wet. I have forgotten and left them in the garden overnight on several occasions, and on one occasion I turned on an overhead sprinkler, not noticing that my journal was on a folding chair in range of the sprinkler. It got a multi-hour shower bath. It dried off good as new.
They sell waterproof pens to use with the Rite as Rain notebooks, and I have one, but instead I use soft-lead pencils. They can be erased if need be, and the pencil writing has proved to be completely waterproof on the waterproof paper.
ZM
(not associated with any product or vendor mentioned or linked)
