Here’s our gift to you -- a free download that you can print and use to track your tomato garden from year to year!
This journal tomato tracker download will help you keep track of the different tomatoes, types, and varieties you grow, so you can use the information you keep from year to year to help you tune in your tomato growing and maximize the use of your tomato garden.
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One Year’s Tomato Journal Can Easily Inform Another
While it seems like we will always remember all the points and details about our gardens from year to year, the fact is that it can be difficult to recall what worked, what didn’t, what was enough, what wasn’t, and where we intended to go from here.
By keeping just a few meaningful notes, you can easily remember what it was you wanted to recall when it comes time for seed starting or planting in the next year.
This Tomato Garden Tracker serves as an at-a-glance journal, of sorts, that captures all the most important information, with room for notes of your own!
We’ve tried to include all the major points and details we want to know about our tomato growing, and that we think you’d find useful, too!
Keeping Track of the What, When, How, and Why of Your Tomato Garden
Use this simple, organized sheet to keep track of the essentials, like:
- What varieties did you grow
- Whether you started them from seed, and when
- If you grew from purchased transplants
- When the tomatoes started and stopped bearing
- What did you use the tomatoes for
- Overall yields
- Other notes and observations
Having details like this can tell you things like:
- Whether you should grow more of a certain type or variety
- If you need to start seeds earlier for better transplants (or later because they grew too large, too fast)
- If your garden season and dates are right, or need adjusting earlier or later
- What varieties worked best for different uses (like canning, making sauce, salsa, drying, or eating fresh)
- If diseases or failures were a problem
- Which varieties struggled the most
- Or, which varieties were stellar performers!
- Which varieties fell victim to local diseases
- Or which varieties fought off pest and disease pressure and produced anyway
- Whether more indeterminate varieties would suit you better
- Or whether determinate tomatoes serve your purposes better
- Whether and what mix of types you should grow
Download Your Tomato Tracker, with Our Compliments
This tracker is our gift to you, in appreciation of our Grow Tomato community. We hope it proves a useful tool for you for many years to come.
It’s free to download, print, and use. Get yours here:
Free Downloadable Tomato Garden Journal Tracker (Free printable PDF)
