Whether you want to create a square-foot garden for vegetables, a kitchen garden for herbs, or a beautiful flower garden, our Garden Planner will help you find the best layout for your space- plus provide all your planting and harvesting dates!
Draw out your vegetable beds, add plants and move them around to get the perfect layout. Whether you use traditional row planting, containers, raised beds or Square Foot Gardening the Garden Planner adapts to suit your gardening style.
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You can build a garden and even print it off using this online planner, but you're unable to save your plans to an online account. This means you must not close out of the website or you could lose your progress.
Clyde's Garden Planner is a handy vegetable planting slide chart which works throughout most of North America. It provides local spring and fall frost dates, plus indoor and outside planting times, for a wide variety of commonly planted garden vegetables. Chart also provides vegetable planting data, sunlight requirements, harvest times and natural companions. It is very handy!
If you are an avid reader of the horticulture blogs, you will know that Gail, Joe, and I all love to share our passion for the gardens and grounds here at Blithewold. We do this through our work, our words, and our photography.
This past summer, we had a dream to put it all together into a garden planner we could have available for purchase at The Shop at Blithewold. Our vision was to create something that would inspire any gardener (or gardener at heart) through each month of the year. A committee of dedicated volunteers was formed, graphic designer Lauren Enjeti was hired, and we were off and running in creating the planner of our dreams. It was a lot of hard work (as any good project is), but we are so pleased to share with you the result.
The planner includes photography from Gail, Joe, and myself; excerpts from our blogs; a monthly sample of what is in bloom at Blithewold; and invaluable monthly to-do lists to keep you on track in your own garden.
Since we knew that this would be the type of planner that could be used as a reference year after year, we decided to make it in the style of a perpetual planner with no specific year as the starting point.
We recently had a Garden Planner release event and it was so lovely signing copies of this planner for those that attended. We hope the joy of gardening continues to encourage and inspire you via this planner.
Speaking of furniture, if you have a laptop or an iPad, you can now plan right from the couch with your feet up and cocoa in hand. Then, when the weather warms up, bring your plan with you into the garden!
That means that we can learn from our mistakes, see which vegetable variety worked best in our microclimate, and retain that knowledge. Understanding what to do next makes a huge difference to the success of a garden!
Thomas Jefferson kept a lengthy gardening journal. It spans the years of 1766 to 1824. Amazon gives you an opportunity to flip through a few of the beginning pages. Thomas Jefferson kept track of when his hyacinth bloomed when he planted his asparagus and his pea harvest yield. He kept track of what went right and what went wrong to ensure future success with his future growing seasons.
Operating the program is equally painless. You simply drag and drop shrubs, trees, flowers, buildings, paving, and ponds into a large grid and lay them out as you like. You can change the foliage color and zoom in or out on your garden. However, we wish the program included several templates for houses so you could spatially arrange the garden around it. We also would like the developer to give us a few sample garden layouts.
He keeps a gardening journal year-round, even in the winter. Every day he notes the temperature; he notes what he picked from the garden that day. Suppose there were deer in the garden; that gets written down too. Was it an especially bad year for blossom end rot? Is that the first robin of spring? Yup, it all gets noted.
Besides entry pages for you to input your gardening information, the planner has a ton of useful information. There are conversion charts, a U.S. growing zone map, propagation guidelines, and weather guidelines, to name a few.
The second garden will have cover crops in the first three rows and a 14 x 100 ft area for the kids gardens. The kids area is three garden beds 30 inches wide with roughly 2 feet of walking path area between rows.
The main garden also has 30 inch wide rows and 18 inches of walking path throughout the majority. The only exception is the caterpillar tunnel rows are about 36 inches wide, with the 18 inch walking paths.
SmartGarden builds your gardening profile and makes you part of is an entire gardening community. It also connects you to other gardeners that live in your area, so that you can share and trade vegetables in real life.
This is another nice veggie garden planning tool that offer all the bells and whistles that the free sites are lacking. Mother Earth News planner could bring out the architect in anybody. Complete with succession planting and crop rotation plans, you could get lost in here for hours.
The Victory Seed Company is family owned and operated, working to help fellow gardeners succeed by providing popular vegetable, herb and flower seeds. We are also heavily involved with the preservation of rare, open-pollinated, heirloom seeds.
So I decided to make up a planner to track my plant care, watch seedling growth, monitor pests and plan out my garden beds. Hopefully this will help me get organised in my backyard and straighten out by brown thumb!
For example, in my area grocery stores will be happy to sell you Japanese Maples and Standard form Euonymus Colorata but you never see them in people's gardens because they are not reliably hardy in my area.
Take the guesswork out of gardening! Whether you're already a vegetable veteran or are just discovering your green thumb, this planner has everything you need to start and maintain a stress-free garden at any scale.
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