Garden Harvest Log

Who this is for

Weigh it, count it, write it down. Each picking gets a row with the date, the crop and variety, the bed it came from, the weight and the count, and the sheet totals the season so you know what the garden really produced.

Vegetable and fruit growers who want to know what a bed or a variety gave them, allotment holders comparing years, and anyone selling or preserving a surplus.

What this helps you track

• Total weight and count harvested over the season, added up for you
• Which crops and varieties earned their space and which did not
• When the first and last pickings of each crop fell, for planning next year
• Where the harvest went — eaten, stored, preserved, given away or sold

How to use it

1. Write the garden and year at the top, and the unit you weigh in — grams, kilograms, ounces or pounds — so every row uses the same one.
2. Keep the sheet and a set of scales near where you bring the harvest in, and log each picking before it disappears into the kitchen.
3. Weigh what can be weighed and count what is easier counted; either column can be left blank for a given row.
4. Mark where the produce went in the last column if you want to know how much you actually ate against how much you gave away.
5. The browser and spreadsheet versions total the columns and summarise the season; on paper, total each page at the foot and carry it forward.

Formats

• Printable PDF (A4 and US Letter)
• Fillable PDF with form fields
• Fill in online, saved in your browser
• Excel / Google Sheets workbook

The printable is laid out inside a box that fits both A4 and US Letter, so the two files are identical and neither one is scaled. The fillable PDF has real form fields. The workbook uses plain formulas only — SUM, IF, COUNTIF and the like — so it opens in Excel, LibreOffice and Google Sheets without anything breaking, and every calculated cell is grey so you can see which figures it worked out.

How to print

Download the A4 or US Letter file to match the paper in your printer, open it in a PDF reader and print at 100% — not "fit to page", which shrinks the writing space. Both files leave a 14 mm margin, which clears the unprintable edge on home printers. To print the online version with your entries in it, use the Print this sheet button, which prints only the sheet and none of the page around it. More on printing.

Questions

Should I weigh or count?

Whichever is natural for the crop. Courgettes and squashes count; beans and salad leaves weigh. Use both where it helps, and leave the other column blank where it does not.

Can I total by crop?

The printed sheet totals the page. In the spreadsheet version, sort or filter by the crop column to see one crop's rows together and total them; the browser version can be downloaded as a CSV for the same purpose.

Does it work for fruit and eggs?

Yes. Anything you bring in from the garden fits — a fruit tree is a crop with a date, a weight and a destination like any other. For a laying flock there is a dedicated egg production record on this site.

Why record where it went?

Because a large total that was mostly given away tells you something different from a small total that was all eaten. It is optional, but it turns the log into a planning tool.