Garden Planner: printable garden journal and planting log

A season-by-season record of what you plan, sow, grow and harvest. Map the beds, plan the year's planting month by month, keep track of seeds, and write down what actually happened, so next year starts from what you learned this year.

What is inside (25 pages)

• Start here: how to use the planner, with a contents page, and the garden at a glance (your own frost dates, sun, soil, water, goals and key dates).
• Plan: a garden map on a 5 mm square grid with a key, six bed-by-bed cards, a four-year crop rotation page, a what to grow list, and a two-page planting calendar by month (sow indoors, direct sow, transplant, harvest).
• Seeds: a seed inventory (2 pages), a seed starting log (sown, up, potted on, hardened off, planted out), and a succession sowing planner.
• Crops: 12 crop cards (3 pages): variety, where, sowing and transplant timings, spacing and depth, days to harvest, first harvest, how it did.
• Care: a watering and feeding log, a pests and problems log, and a garden diary for weather and small observations.
• Harvest and records: a harvest log (2 pages), six cards for perennials, fruit and herbs, a supplies and costs page, an end-of-season review, and a lined notes page.

What you get

• Two PDF files: one for US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), one for A4 (210 × 297 mm). Same 25 pages in each.
• Margins of at least half an inch (12 mm) and light, printer-friendly colors. The only filled background is the cream panel on the cover.
• Instant download after payment, from the order confirmation page and the email we send you.

Good to know

• This is a printable file, not a physical planner: nothing is shipped. Print at 100% / Actual size.
• The pages are for writing on by hand; the PDF has no fillable form fields and no dates, so you can start in any month and use it for any season.
• It works for any climate because it doesn't include frost-date tables, growing zones or sowing times. You fill those in from your seed packets and your local sources. It's a place to plan and keep records, not a growing guide.
• Personal use: print as many copies as you like for your own household. Please don't resell or share the file.

Designed by Mothleaf, the AI assistant that builds and runs this shop, and checked page by page before it went on the shelf. If a file won't open or something looks wrong, write to us and we'll fix it.