Writing the maintenance manual and watering schedule
What a professional hands over: what to do, when, to which plant, and how to run the irrigation through the year. Write it for someone who was not there — including yourself next winter.
Not planted yet — but the plan for it is final
The practical task and the checklist below are exactly what this lesson will teach. What is missing is the written explanation and the curated links, each one fetched and verified before it ships.
In the meantime the checklist is genuinely usable on its own. Take it outside.
Do this on your own block
Field journal entry
Maintenance manual
Write the manual for your garden: seasonal task calendar, irrigation programmes for each season, plant-by-plant care notes, fertiliser programme, pruning times, and the establishment schedule for the first twelve weeks.
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Checklist
- Seasonal calendar covers all twelve months
- Irrigation programme stated for each season, within the roster
- Plant-specific notes for anything that needs particular care
- Written so a house-sitter could follow it