Winter · 32 pages
The Winter Plan
Draw every bed at true scale, rotate crops over four years and date the whole season from your own last frost.
$7.00
Printable garden planning kits · US Letter + A4
A printable garden journal that tells you when to plant
Garden PDF kits date your whole season from your own last frost, then give you the pages to plan it and write it down. For backyard plots and raised beds anywhere in the US.
All four kits for the price of two, worth $28.00. Pay once by card, download straight away, no account.
108NOAA frost stations in every kit
134printable pages across four kits
2paper sizes in each zip: US Letter and A4
0accounts, subscriptions or apps needed
The problem with most planners
Gardens go wrong in the calendar before they go wrong in the soil
Seeds started too early get leggy. Seeds put out too late miss the season.
Most free charts count by growing zone, which is a guess. Your garden answers to one date: the last frost on your own plot. Every Garden PDF kit starts there. You write the date once, and each page counts weeks from it, so “start tomatoes indoors” becomes a day on your calendar.
Then the same file holds the pages to plan the beds and to write down what happened, so next year you start from what you learned instead of from memory.
The kits
Four kits that follow the growing year
Each kit is $7.00 on its own. Together they cost $14.00, which is the price of two.
Best value · 4 for the price of 2
The Garden Year
$14.00$28.00
All four kits, together worth $28.00. One payment, no account, US Letter and A4.
- The Winter Plan, 32 pages
- The Seed-Starting Countdown, 35 pages
- The Companion Planting Plan, 36 pages
- The Season Record, 31 pages
Late winter · 35 pages
The Seed-Starting Countdown
A week-by-week countdown from 14 weeks before your last frost to 3 weeks after, with trays to map, seeds to test and a hardening-off log.
$7.00
Spring · 36 pages
The Companion Planting Plan
A companion chart that marks every pair as tested, mixed, reasoned or lore, then turns the pairs into dated plans and drawn beds.
$7.00
Summer to fall · 31 pages
The Season Record
Log plantings, rain, feeding, pests and every harvest, then close the year with a fall count-back and notes for next winter.
$7.00
One year, four jobs
Plan in winter, start in late winter, pair in spring, record all season
WinterPlan the beds
Draw every bed to scale and date the season.
The Winter Plan
Late winterStart the seeds
Count back from frost to the week each tray is sown.
The Seed-Starting Countdown
SpringPair the crops
See which neighbours help and how well it is tested.
The Companion Planting Plan
Summer to fallWrite it down
Log what went in and came out, then count back for fall.
The Season RecordHow it works
From a frost date to a dated plan in three moves
1
Find your frost date
Look up the nearest of 108 NOAA stations in the front of every kit, or use your own. Write week 0 once.
2
Count the weeks
Every chart is printed in weeks before and after that date. Add the dates and each crop has a real day to start, sow or transplant.
3
Write it down
Log sowings, harvests and surprises on the record pages. At season’s end, compare your real frost dates with the station’s and shift next year.
Plan and record in one file
Templates you fill in by hand, built on real frost data
Every kit mixes planning pages with record pages. Nothing is a blank lined notebook: each page already knows what week it is.
A garden planner template for beds, weeks and harvests
Every kit mixes planning pages and record pages, so one file covers where, when and what happened.
A garden planning template you can reuse each year
Print as many copies as you need for your own garden and household, in any year. Terms of purchase cover it.
A gardening planner template in two paper sizes
Each kit is a zip with two PDFs, US Letter and A4, both fill-in-by-hand.
Evidence, not decoration
Numbers you can check
Crop timing, spacing and seed data cite US extension publications on a numbered sources page in each kit. No outside rating or review is claimed, because the kits are new.
1991–2020
NOAA climate normals behind every frost date, at the 10, 50 and 90 percent points.
41
crops in the master chart, each with spacing, depth, days to harvest and frost class.
4 levels
of evidence on every companion pair: tested, mixed, reasoned or lore.
What you get
Pay once, get your download by email, print at home
Each kit is a zip with two PDFs, US Letter and A4. Print at 100 percent so the bed and tray grids keep their true measurements, then fill them in by hand.
- 1
Pay by card
One payment through Stripe Checkout. No account, no subscription.
- 2
Get your link by email
Right after payment the link to your zip file arrives in your inbox.
- 3
Download promptly
Save the zip soon after it arrives. No email after a few minutes? Check your spam folder.
- 4
Print and write
Open the PDF in your paper size, print at 100 percent and start on page 3.
Try before you buy
A free 12-page sample
The first twelve pages of The Seed-Starting Countdown: the countdown dates, the 108-station frost table, the indoor-start chart and the germination test. A direct download, no email address.
FAQ
Questions gardeners ask
What should be in a garden journal?
Three things: what you planted and where, what happened while the season ran (weather, pests, growth) and what you harvested. NC State Extension, for example, lists a garden map or planting list, varieties, planting dates and harvest amounts. The Season Record gives each of these its own dated pages and adds a fall count-back.
What is the best garden journal?
No single format wins for everyone. Look for dated pages, room for a bed map and a place to review the season at the end. The Season Record has all three, and every entry is tied to the frost dates you write on page 3, so the journal doubles as next year’s plan.
How do I plan the layout of my garden?
Measure each bed, decide what goes where, and draw it on a grid so that the drawing matches the real bed. The Winter Plan prints bed grids at 1 inch = 1 foot (print at 100 %), with plants per square foot for 41 crops, so a drawn plant is a plant that fits.
What month should you start your vegetable garden?
It depends on your last frost date, not on the calendar month. Cool-season crops go out around it, tender ones after it, and seeds started indoors begin up to 14 weeks before it. The kits print 108 NOAA stations so you can find yours, then count the weeks.
Is there a free garden planner?
Yes. Free printables and extension-service charts exist, and they are a fine start. Garden PDF’s free sample is 12 pages of The Seed-Starting Countdown. The paid kits add the dated plan, the true-scale beds and the record pages in one file, for $7.00 each or $14.00 for all four.
Ready for the season
Four kits for the price of two
The Garden Year: plan the beds, start the seeds, pair the crops and keep the record. $14.00 once, worth $28.00.