Garden Planting Planner

Plan the whole growing year on one printable page

The garden planting planner puts the gardening calendar and a plot sketch on a single sheet. The upper table runs month by month, with columns for what to sow or start indoors, what to plant out, and what to harvest. The lower half is a square grid box where you draw your beds and pencil in which crop sits where.

Pin it to the shed wall or slip it into a gardening folder, then fill it in by hand as the season unfolds. It prints cleanly in A4 or US Letter.

Why plan your planting on paper?

Seed packets give sowing windows, but they do not stitch together into a year you can see at a glance. A printed planner does. Use it for:

• spacing out sowings so you are not swamped by salad in June and bare in August
• remembering successional sowings of fast crops like radish and lettuce
• planning crop rotation across beds from one year to the next
• recording what actually worked so next year is better
• a shared overview for an allotment plot or community garden
• keeping the harvest column honest about what is ready when

What you can customise

• Page title: default "Garden Planting Planner" or rename for a specific plot
• Season / plot label: printed top-right, e.g. "2026 · Allotment"
• Name & year line: show or hide the gardener and year line under the heading
• Month rows: 6 to 12 months — a full year or just the active season
• Bed-grid size: 6 to 16 cells per side for a coarse or fine plot sketch
• Paper size: A4 or US Letter PDF

How the columns work

Sow / start indoors

Note seeds to sow direct or start under cover this month — tomatoes and chillies early indoors, carrots and beetroot direct later.

Plant out

List the seedlings ready to go into their final positions, once the risk of frost has passed for tender crops.

Harvest

Record what should be ready to lift, cut or pick, so you can plan meals and gluts around it.

Bed layout grid

Sketch your beds in the square grid and label each section. Use the notes-and-key column to explain your shading or crop codes.

Who the planting planner is for

Allotment holders

Map a whole plot across the year and keep rotation groups moving bed to bed.

Veg-patch and raised-bed growers

Squeeze the most out of a small space by planning successional sowings and catch crops.

Beginner gardeners

Turn a pile of seed packets into a clear month-by-month plan you can follow.

School and community gardens

Share one sheet so everyone knows what is going in and coming out each month.

How to use the tool

1. Enter a title or use the default.
2. Add a season or plot label if you want one.
3. Choose how many month rows you need (6 to 12).
4. Set the bed-grid size (6 to 16 cells per side).
5. Pick A4 or US Letter and preview the sheet.
6. Download the PDF and print at 100% scale.
7. Fill the table in pencil and sketch your beds in the grid.

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