Hobbies
Garden planner Template
Draw the bed on squares first, then list what goes in it.
Four steps
How to print a garden planner
- 1
Start from this form
Opens on the garden planner: Bed or plot, Season, Layout, Planting and the rest.
- 2
Put your own heading on it
Replace "Garden Plan" with a name, a business or a date range.
- 3
Set the row height
10 rows at 6 mm fits more in; 14 mm suits a form filled in by hand.
- 4
Print or save as PDF
The grid, at a scale you write down somewhere is the line to get right.
Who prints this
Anyone planning a vegetable bed or an allotment over the winter, before the seed order goes in.
The field that decides whether it works
The grid, at a scale you write down somewhere. Spacing is what a plan on lined paper gets wrong, and it is what decides whether the bed works in July.
Why it is laid out this way
A squared grid at the top and a planting table underneath, because the drawing answers how much room there is and the table answers what is going in it. Doing them in that order heads off the commonest mistake, which is planning more rows than the bed will hold.
What is on the sheet
3 sections, in this order: Bed or plot, Season; Layout; Planting. Set the row height anywhere between 6 and 14 mm across its 10 ruled rows, put your own heading at the top, and find the garden planner alongside 5 other forms on the hobby trackers page.
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