This free printable garden planner can help! This garden planner printable is packed full of pages to help you plan, track, and organize your seasonal, monthly, and weekly garden tasks so you can make this year the year you finally get your seeds planted on time and keep up with your garden chores. This planner is as functional as it is pretty. I’ve noted that, all too often, planting planners are either functional (but unattractive and unappealing to use) or frilly without much substance. I hope this planner fills the gap so you can have a garden binder that’s a joy to look at and a helpful planning tool and record. I started gardening when I was four years old with container tomatoes on the back patio. Since then I’ve almost aways had at least something growing. This planner brings together the aspects of garden planners and journals I’ve found most useful over the years. For resources to help you grow a successful garden, even without a large yard, be sure to visit this page of gardening posts here on The Artisan Life.
How to print and use garden planner printables
This post may include affiliate links which means I may earn a commission on qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. These pages are a joy to print and use. They have carefully designed margins to ensure they are printer friendly. You won’t have anything important missing after you print and hole punch for your garden binder! For best results, I recommend printing on 32 lb paper. This paper is brighter and thicker than “normal” printer paper. This means your pages look inviting and beautiful, plus they hold up better to repeated use. For a side-by-side comparison of several popular papers and cardstocks, be sure to check out this post on the best paper for planner printables. I recommend printing these letter sized pages at 100% and placing them in a 3 ring binder. Keeping your garden planner each year can help you look back, reflect, and grow an even better garden next year. A clear view binder works perfectly because this set of printables comes with a lovely front cover page. Two cover pages, actually, with different skin tones: You may also want tab dividers to separate your months and seasons. Make sure to add a few heavy duty page protectors, too, so you can keep your empty seed packets! Use and enjoy! This is really the most important step - you need to actually print and use your garden planner if you want your gardening results to get better and better.
Resources for keeping a successful garden
There are so many gardening books and resources available that it can be hard to know where to start. These are a few of my personal favorites because they have lots of useful information for new and experienced gardeners and clear images. I am happy to answer questions about any of the books listed below - they are all in my personal gardening library.
Free printable garden planner
Let’s take a look inside your free printable garden planner!
The author, Niki Jabbour, focuses on growing a family-sized garden in raised beds. The Year Round Vegetable Gardener is filled with practical suggestions that look nice and don’t cost a fortune to implement. I particularly love the book’s modern look and plentiful, bright images.
Square Foot Gardening is a classic! An earlier edition was the first gardening book I ever owned. Square Foot Gardening is an intensive method that shows you how to plant a sizable amount of food in a small area by sectioning it off into one foot squares. This planner is packed full of pages to help you make the most of your garden. There are an incredible 41 pages in the PDF. Print just a few or print them all - whichever serves your needs best. Pages include:
Two cover pages Two “from the garden of” pages Nurseries & suppliers log Garden wish list Seed, root, and bulb inventory Garden shopping list Planting overview Seasonal garden expense and task tracker Seasonal garden notes Seasonal garden layout Seasonal planting tracker Monthly garden planner Monthly garden layout Square foot garden layout Garden layout notes Monthly planting tracker Monthly chore tracker Monthly harvest calendar Monthly expense record Monthly progress and notes Pest and disease log Weekly to-do list Weekly garden chore tracker Weekly progress and notes Watering tracker Weekly harvest record Blank plant profile page 11 popular herb profile pages with growing & harvest tips Blank recipe card
I created a flip through video so you can see everything before you download: If you’d also like to keep track of important gardening dates in your regular planner, make sure to grab these free printable garden planners stickers. Like all printable planners and journals on The Artisan Life, these are available for personal and single classroom use. You are welcome to print and use them as many times as you’d like for yourself and for your students (children or adults) in a class you are personally facilitating. You are not licensed to redistribute the files or printouts to others for use in classes they are teaching. Instead, please refer your family and friends to this page so they can download their own copies. If you like staying organized, make sure to download these additional free panner and journal printables on The Artisan Life: There are also non-month specific planner printables and free printable planner stickers.
