Garden Planner Template (Printable PDF & GoodNotes)
Two pages for planning a garden. The garden layout is a full page of square grid for drawing beds, paths and plants to scale. The planting calendar has ten rows for crops or plants and a column for each month, January to December, to mark when to sow, plant and harvest.
- Printable US Letter8.5 × 11 in, white paper
- Printable A4210 × 297 mm, white paper
- iPad / GoodNotesAlso Notability and Noteshelf
- E-ink tabletreMarkable, Kindle Scribe, Boox
Free PDF, 2 pages, undated. No sign-up needed.
Shown for iPad in the Sage Botanical theme. Printable downloads use white paper; the e-ink version is black and white.
2 pages, ready to fill in.
- Page 1, Garden Layout: A square grid
- Page 2, Planting Calendar: A January-to-December grid with 10 blank rows
- Undated, so you can print or duplicate it as often as you need
Who it's for
Vegetable gardeners, allotment holders, people planning a new flower border, families starting a first garden, and homesteaders planning crops for the year. School and community gardens use it to share plans between volunteers, so everyone knows what's planted where and what's due next.
Getting the most from a garden planner.
Choose a scale for the grid
Decide what one square means, such as 30 cm or one foot, and write it at the top. Then measure your beds and draw them in.
Mark sun and shade
Shade the parts of the layout that get less than six hours of sun. It decides what can grow where.
Use symbols on the calendar
S for sow, P for plant out, H for harvest. Use your local frost dates to decide which months.
Rotate crops
Keep last year's layout and avoid planting the same family of vegetables in the same bed two years running.
Plan succession sowing
For salad and quick crops, mark repeat sowings every few weeks on the calendar so you have a steady harvest.
Included in 2 planners
This template is a page in each of these planners. Open one to see everything else that comes with it.
Get it inside a full hyperlinked planner
The garden planner includes this page alongside dated month and week pages for your year, with side tabs and links between every page. Pick your device and theme, preview it free, and pay only when it's right.
- Dated pages for the whole year
- Tap a tab or a date to jump there
- GoodNotes, Notability, Samsung Notes, e-ink and print sizes
Opens the garden planner with the Garden section switched on.
Or read about the garden planner first.
What's in the garden planner?
A full-page square grid for your garden layout and a planting calendar with ten rows and twelve month columns.
Does it work for vegetables and flowers?
Yes. Use the calendar for vegetables, herbs, annuals or bulbs, and the layout for any kind of garden.
Is it for a particular climate?
No. The months are blank so you can fill them in for your own growing zone and frost dates, in either hemisphere.
What's in the full garden planner?
A planting calendar, garden layout pages and plant logs, plus a habit tracker for watering and garden jobs.
Can I use it for containers or a balcony?
Yes. Draw your pots or planters on the grid and use the calendar for what you'll grow in each.
