Apart from the fact that 2022 will be a presidential election year, it already offers many diaries and calendars around the garden, all of which are focused on virtuous practices to preserve the environment. Should we see a link there? It is to be hoped because, without a doubt, the environmental question imposes itself as a major issue of the 21st century.
The choice is vast but you can choose according to your own concerns: gardening with the moon, having a wall calendar or on the desk, reserving it only to note the tasks of the garden or use it to register the appointments not to be forget… they are all full of sound advice embellished with very beautiful illustrations… We have selected a few of them.
Diaries and calendar for the organic gardener 2022 – Terre Vivante
I’Agenda of the organic gardener 2022 of Living Earth is a classic well known to gardeners since it allows you to miss nothing in the vegetable garden and the orchard: indeed, the dates of sowing, planting and harvesting of fruits and vegetables are recalled there, with space for record your own actions in the garden. Week after week, you will also find the precise lunar calendar and the climate map of France. You will always have as much space there to note the interventions in the garden, your personal appointments, the climatic events, the varieties chosen… If necessary, you can also refer to it, either for details on the basics of organic gardening. , or for good addresses where to get seeds, plants and ecological materials.
Xavier Mathias, market gardener and organic trainer, radio columnist on France Inter, producer of plants and vegetables in Chedigny (37), invites us to rethink biodiversity, hence the theme of the agenda “Let’s be curious!”. He suggests that we turn to plants adapted to our climatic changes rather than the other way around. This year, magnificent botanical plates are produced by Julie Terrazzoni, illustrator, specializing in the animal and plant world.
(Living Earth Editions – €12)
I’Agenda of nature in the garden 2022 is the companion of nature lovers who wish to immerse themselves in it in order to experience it on a daily basis. Day after day, he gives you advice for observing animals, plants and the sky, with weekly focus on what the period offers to see, hear or do to make your garden a paradise for biodiversity!
In addition to its practical advice on the rhythm and life of nature offered by Blaise Mulhauser, biologist and ecologist, specialist in the actions of man on his environment, the nature diary is also a beautiful object for noting down his appointments. you personal or family, which combines practical advice and natural graphic atmosphere signed Valentine Plessy, naturalist illustrator combining art and nature with talent.
(Co-edition Living Earth & The Salamander – €12)
THE 2022 organic vegetable garden calendar has chosen this year to explore magnificent botanical plates of fruits and vegetables from an old book The vegetable kingdom, iconographic atlas (O. Reveil, A. Dupuis, F. Gérard, F. Hérincq – 1872). You will find month by month the essential actions to do in the vegetable garden, according to the lunar calendar, while taking into account predictable phenological and climatic events (ice saints, etc.). As always, public holidays, traditional festivals, school holidays and dates of time and season changes are mentioned there.
(Living Earth Editions – €10)
Gardening with the moon in 2022
Gardening with the moon in biodynamics 2022 is still written by Laurent Dreyfus for the Biodynamic Agriculture Movement. This book, which includes a detachable lunar calendar, is a tool to understand the influence of the Moon and the planets, to record your work in the garden, and to guide you in biodynamic gardening.
(Editions Ulmer – €12.90)
Cultivate your garden with the moon 2022 is a collective work which allows, week by week, to have all the information to garden with the moon with, in more a detachable wall calendar. On each weekly double page, you have a weather notebook to fill in day after day, a space to write down your work in the garden, many tips for more ecological gardening, not to mention more or less well-known sayings.
(Artemis Editions – €9.50)
Practical garden diary 2022: bedding plants and vegetable garden in permaculture
This diary is intended to be practical including a useful notebook to make your vegetable garden in permaculture while respecting biodiversity, fertile and living land, more responsible, more ecological, more economical gestures. It also allows you to garden with the moon, to discover sayings as well as illustrated permaculture interventions, without forgetting the portraits of plants or auxiliary fauna, recipes or anti-waste cooking tips.
(Editions Marie Claire – €9.95)
My 2022 garden and bee diary
Here is a diary specially intended for bee lovers but which will also meet the expectations of all gardeners. Rather smart to look into them because, what would our gardens and vegetable gardens be without pollinators? At the origin of this agenda, there is Pierre Javaudin, French specialist in the horizontal hive TBH or Kenyan.
From simple gestures favoring melliferous plants while participating in the preservation of biodiversity, you will learn to know bees and how to help them! This diary will also fulfill its functions as a responsible memory aid, to know what to do in the garden month after month, in a natural way, in order to harvest fruits, vegetables and flowers, while taking care of the earth. Fans of the 2022 lunar calendar will have one available without forgetting a grid allowing them to draw the plan of their vegetable garden.
(Terran Editions – €13.95)
Written by Nathalie on 10/12/2021