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Garden planning guides for vegetable gardeners

56 short, sourced guides on layouts, planting dates, seed starting, companion planting and garden records. They are listed with the most useful first, and each one points to the kit that does the work on paper.

A sheet of graph paper with five small square beds sketched in pencil, lying on a weathered wooden table beside a pencil, two wooden rulers, a jar and a bowl of seeds, and two potted plants

Garden Planner: Paper, Spreadsheet or App

You want to grow vegetables and every tool you find says it will plan the garden for you.

A frost-covered kale plant in a raised bed at sunrise, ice crystals on its curled leaf edges, a wooden stake beside it and a backyard fence in the warm light behind

Vegetable Planting Calendar by Zip Code: 3 Steps

You know your zip code, and you want to know what to plant this month.

A weathered wooden raised bed in warm morning light with young broccoli plants on the left, a row of tiny radish sprouts in dark soil, and a black seed tray of seedlings on the bed edge

Vegetable Planting Calendar: Build It in 4 Steps

You want one calendar that tells you what to sow and plant each month.

A mature broccoli plant with a dense green head and blue-green leaves in a wooden raised bed, beside a row of small seedlings with a few leaves each and a wooden post behind in soft dawn light

When to Plant Broccoli Seeds: Spring and Fall Dates

You have a packet of broccoli seed and no idea which week to open it.

Two long wooden-framed beds of dark loose soil with a wood-chip path between them on a sunny lawn, tall bamboo stakes in the soil, a blue wheelbarrow and a wooden fence behind

Backyard Garden Planner: A Worked 10x10 Plan

You have a patch of lawn and one season to turn it into vegetables.

A rectangular wooden raised bed filled with dark soil on a lawn, with a block of small lettuce plants at one end and a few young pepper seedlings at the other

Raised Garden Planner: 4x4 and 4x8 Layouts

You have a raised bed, or you are about to build one, and you need to know what goes where.

Young pea seedlings with pale green leaves in dark garden soil in low morning light, a metal thermometer standing in the soil beside a small dish of green pea seeds

When to Plant: Count From Last Frost

You have seed packets and a bare bed, and no idea which week to start.

A printed sheet of pencil-drawn rectangular garden beds on a worn wooden bench, with a smartphone lying dark beside it, a small trowel and two pots with green seedlings

Digital Garden Planner: What You Get

You have seen apps that promise to plan your whole garden, and you wonder what they really do.

A wooden raised bed seen from above, divided by thin slats into square cells that each hold a different young crop, including a tomato seedling, lettuce and carrot tops, on a lawn in morning light

Square Foot Gardening Planner: A 4x4 Grid Plan

You have a 4x4 bed and a grid, and now you need to know what goes in each square.

A white row-cover tunnel on a hoop frame in an early-spring vegetable bed, young spinach and pea shoots in dark soil beside it, a patch of melting snow and a wooden fence behind

Zone 6 Planting Calendar: Every USDA Zone Dated

You know your zone, and you want dates instead of a number.

A black plastic seed tray of dark mix with green seedlings at different sizes coming up in several cells, a clear plastic dome beside it on a bright windowsill

How to Start Seeds: A 6-Step Indoor Guide

You have a windowsill, a bag of seed and a last frost date.

A row of young beet seedlings with bright red stems and green leaves in dark crumbly soil, two small dark-red beets lying on the soil in the foreground

When to Plant Beet Seeds: Spring and Fall

Beets are a cool-season crop, so the calendar matters at both ends of the year.

Overhead view of a brown soil plot with a row of leafy green plants along the top and five whole vegetable plants laid in lines below, including a red beet and bunches of carrots with their tops

Veggie Garden Planner: Crops, Yield and a Layout

You have a patch of yard and more seed packets than space.

Wooden raised beds in afternoon sun, with tall pink flowering plants at the back, staked tomato plants with green fruit in the middle and low yellow flowers in front, beside a gravel path

Permaculture Garden Planner: Guilds and Zones on Paper

You have read about guilds, zones and layers and now you want them on a page.

Wooden stakes and white string outlining rectangular bed shapes on freshly turned dark soil, with a yellow tape measure and an upright spade beside them

Garden Design Planner: Site to Bed Shapes

You have a patch of yard and a rough idea of where the vegetables should go.

A sunny backyard vegetable plot beside a white clapboard house, with staked tomato plants in a wooden raised bed, rows of bush beans, a dirt path and a galvanized watering can

Victory Garden Planner: History and Family Plan

You want to plant a victory garden and you are not sure how big it should be.

Two small yellow onion sets resting on dark crumbly garden soil beside a row of young onion seedlings with bright green leaves, with a metal trowel blurred in the background

When to Plant Onion Seeds: Dates From Your Frost Date

You have a packet of onion seeds and a last-frost date, and you want one sowing date.

A weathered wooden raised bed filled with leafy herbs and young lettuce, with a pair of orange-handled garden snips resting on the bed edge in morning light

Kitchen Garden Planner: Grow What You Use

You want fresh herbs and salad within a few steps of the stove.

A tall black plastic pot with a staked cherry tomato plant, a terracotta pot of leaf lettuce and a small black pot of green onions on a sunny balcony beside an iron railing and a metal watering can

Container Garden Planner: Pot Sizes by Crop

You have a balcony, a patio step or a few empty pots and no idea how many plants will fit.

A rectangular wooden raised bed with young lettuce, leafy greens and a bamboo trellis of climbing beans, beside a coiled green hose, with tall corn in neighboring plots and a small wooden shed in the sunny background

Community Garden Planner: Plan Your Rented Plot

You have been handed a plot in a shared garden and you want to use every square foot of it well.

A small raised wooden bed with three young beets in the front row, their red stems and green leaves above dark soil, a leafy plant behind them and a staked tomato plant with green fruit at the back, on a gravel path in morning light

Small Garden Planner: Crops That Earn Space

You have a few square feet and a long list of things you want to grow.

A white printed sheet on a weathered wooden bench with six empty green-outlined rectangles in two columns, a yellow pencil beside it and two small pots of green seedlings at the corners

Garden Planner Printable: Eight Pages to Check

You want a planner you can print, write on and carry to the garden, and every free page looks a little different.

Two black plastic seed trays on a sunny windowsill, one holding tall leafy broccoli seedlings and the other small young tomato seedlings in dark soil

When to Start Seedlings: Count Back From Frost

You have the seed packets, a bright windowsill and no idea which week to begin.

A wooden raised garden bed in morning light with one tomato plant carrying red and green fruit and a ring of leafy basil plants growing around its base

Companion Planting Chart: Evidence for Each Pair

You want to know which plants to put next to which.

Young tomato seedlings spaced along a raised wooden bed of dark soil, each beside a bamboo stake, with a coil of jute twine and a garden trowel in the foreground

Garden Plant Planner: One Line per Crop

You have a list of vegetables you want and no idea how many of each will fit.

A hand-bound notebook tied with twine lies open on a worn wooden bench, one page ruled in lines and the other drawn as a square grid, with a pencil, paper clips, a paper punch and a potted plant beside it

DIY Garden Planner: What to Track

You would rather make your own planner than pay for one.

A backyard seen from above with four raised wooden beds in two rows, wood-chip paths between them, a coiled green hose and a spigot on a wooden post, and a plank fence throwing long morning shadows across the grass

Outdoor Garden Planner: Map Your Whole Yard

You have a whole yard and no idea where the vegetables should go.

Tiny kale and radish seedlings just up in dark garden soil, with straw mulch and a few dry leaves, and a yellowing summer plant blurred behind them in low golden light

Fall Planting Guide: Count Back From Frost

Your summer bed is still producing and you wonder what you can still sow.

A raised wooden garden bed seen close up in warm morning light, with young lettuce plants in the dark soil at several different sizes, from tiny seedlings to fuller rosettes, and a trowel handle at the edge

Succession Planting Vegetables Chart: Intervals by Crop

You sow a whole row of lettuce and it is all ready in the same week.

Four heirloom tomatoes of different shapes and colors on a weathered wooden table, a ribbed pink one, an orange one, a yellow pear-shaped one and a green and red striped one, with one tomato cut open to show its seeds, a glass jar of dark seeds and a paper envelope

Heirloom Garden Planner: Isolation and Seed Notes

You grow heirloom varieties, and you want the same tomato or bean next year.

A wooden box of plain paper seed envelopes on a potting bench, with loose pale seeds in a bowl and on the table and a small potted seedling beside it

Seed Inventory Printable: What to Track

You have a drawer of half-used packets and no idea what is in it.

A closed linen-covered notebook with an elastic band and a green pencil on the wooden rim of a raised bed, with ripe red tomatoes and a green pepper growing behind it

Garden Journal Ideas: 8 Entries That Pay Off

You want to keep a garden journal, but a blank page does not tell you what to write.

A closed pale linen binder with a pencil on its cover, lying on a weathered potting bench between a wicker basket of green beans, a small basket of ripe tomatoes and a hand trowel

Garden Journal Printable: Five Pages Worth Printing

You want pages you can print and write on, not a blank notebook to stare at.

Eight sturdy tomato seedlings with dark green leaves in small terracotta pots on a wooden garden bench in dappled shade under a tree

When to Plant Tomato Seeds Indoors: 5 Steps

You have the seed packets and no idea which week to open them.

Five freshly pulled orange carrots with feathery green tops lying across dark garden soil, with a small wooden stake and young green seedlings beside them in soft overcast light

Carrot Planting Season: Spring and Fall Dates

You have carrot seed and a bare bed, and you want sowing weeks you can write down.

Young green seedlings with true leaves growing in a black cell flat on a wooden workbench, a clear humidity dome beside the flat and a glowing LED grow light bar above

Seed Starting Chart: Start Dates by Crop

You have packets of seed and a last frost date, and you want to know which tray to sow first.

A bunch of red radishes with white tips and green leaves lying on dark soil in a wooden raised bed, with a young tomato plant carrying small green fruit at the right edge

How Long to Grow Vegetables Chart: Days by Crop

You want to know how soon the first radish, bean or tomato will be ready.

A shallow furrow in dark crumbly soil with a row of small tan bean seeds laid in it, a young seedling with two round green leaves rising beside the row, and a pale wooden stake at the right

When to Plant Bean Seeds: Frost and Soil Rules

You have a packet of bean seeds and a garden that still feels cold.

A trench of dark soil with a row of asparagus crowns, pale roots spread out and green shoots rising, and a trowel at the right edge

Asparagus Planting Guide: Crowns to Harvest

You are about to put a bed in the ground that will outlast most of your other vegetables.

Pale seeds on a damp paper towel, a few laid out in front and many more spilling from an open plastic bag, a few showing short root tips

Seed Viability Chart: How Long Seeds Last

You found a drawer of old seed packets and need to know which ones to sow.

Curved garden border edged in brick, with tall white and pink hollyhocks against a wooden fence, low purple lavender in front and lawn in the foreground

Garden Border Planner: Width, Height, Layers

You have a strip along a fence or a lawn and no idea how deep to make it.

Jalapeno seedlings with glossy green leaves in a black four-cell tray on a heat mat at a sunny window, with one whole green jalapeno pepper in front

When to Plant Jalapeno Seeds: 4 Steps

You have a packet of jalapeno seeds and a last frost date.

A young rhubarb plant in early spring with broad green leaves, bright red stalks and three pink leaf buds at its base, surrounded by straw mulch on dark soil, with a small garden trowel standing in the ground beside it

Rhubarb Planting Guide: Crowns, Timing, Year Three

You have a rhubarb crown in a bag, or a neighbour has offered you a division.

A square wooden raised bed seen from above with herbs planted in separate groups on dark soil: a silvery rosemary shrub and a feathery thyme plant along the back, chives and low leafy herbs in the middle, basil in front, and a terracotta pot holding a leafy herb standing outside the bed on the paving

Herb Garden Layout Planner: Which Herbs Share a Bed

You have a bare bed, a tray of herb seedlings and no idea who should sit next to whom.

Three black seedling trays in a row on a weathered wooden bench by a window, with tall green onion seedlings on the left, blue-green broccoli plants in the middle and young seedlings with a few leaves on the right

When to Plant Seeds for Spring: 16-Week Start Order

You have a pile of seed packets and no idea which one goes first.

Three long white daikon roots with green leafy tops lying on dark garden soil in low golden light, with the tines of a garden fork pushed into the soil behind them

Daikon Radish Planting Time: Late Summer Sowing

You have daikon seed and a late-summer bed, and you want the week to sow.

A wooden raised bed of dark soil in early spring with scattered rows of small green seedlings, an empty black cell tray at the right edge and patches of frost on the grass behind

Spring Garden Planner: Six Dates, Week by Week

Spring feels crowded because everything seems to need doing at once.

A heap of freshly dug pale, knobby sunchoke tubers with soil on them in a wooden bed, with dry stalks and small yellow flowers at the left and garden fork tines behind

Sunchokes Planting Guide: Timing and Spread

Sunchokes are easy to plant and hard to get rid of.

White daisy-like chamomile flowers with yellow centers on thin stems above feathery leaves, with a row of small seedlings in dark crumbly soil in the foreground

Chamomile Planting Guide: Sow, Space, Reseed

Chamomile is easy to grow once you have the dates.

Young pea plants with curling tendrils and a few small pods climbing a string stretched between two wooden stakes, above dark moist soil with a small seedling at the edge

Pea Planting Guide: Sow When Soil Thaws

Peas want to go in the ground before almost anything else.

Young green seedlings in dark garden soil with a wooden stake on each side and a taut string line pulled across the row in front of the middle seedling

Garden Planner Worksheet: Every Row Explained

You have a blank sheet and a seed catalog.

A tall arch trellis of wire and poles covered in green vines, with cucumbers hanging from the top and melons resting in cream cloth slings tied to the frame, over mulched soil

What to Plant in a Vertical Garden: Match Crop to Support

You want to grow up instead of out.

Four wooden raised garden beds seen from above in a row, one holding blue-green kale, one a leafy bed, one potato plants in yellow flower and one beets with red stems, with bare soil paths between them

Crop Rotation Garden Planner: 4 Beds, 4 Years

You grow tomatoes, kale and beans, and you do not want any of them back in the same bed next year.

A backyard vegetable bed where a big tree trunk and a plank fence throw shade over one side, with staked tomato plants carrying orange fruit near the trunk and leafy green plants in the shade beside them

Garden Sun Planner: Plan by Sun Hours

Your plot sits in the shade of a fence or a tree, and you are not sure what will grow there.

A young winter squash plant with broad green leaves and one yellow flower in dark garden soil, with a small orange squash fruit resting beside the stem

Winter Squash Planting Season: Count Back From Frost

You hold a packet of butternut or acorn seed and want to know if you are too early or too late.

A metal hand fork standing in dark crumbly compost inside a wooden raised bed, with green grass seedlings growing along the edges in low sunlight

Organic Garden Planner: Rotation, Cover Crops, Soil

You want to feed your vegetables without synthetic fertilizer and need to know what to write down.

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

See what is inside

Cover of The Winter Plan: a painted plate of squash, onions and tomatoes with the title in white

Cover of The Seed-Starting Countdown: seedling trays under a grow light in a winter greenhouse, title in white

Cover of The Companion Planting Plan: a raised bed of tomatoes, basil and marigolds with a watering can, title in white

Cover of The Season Record: a painted plate of squash, peppers and garlic on a wooden bench, title in white