Allotment Plot Plan
Get the plot down on paper to a consistent scale, so bed lengths, seed quantities and next year's rotation can be worked out in the warm.
GG-02 2 pages
Garden and growing · GG-08
Vegetable Garden Planner
A free printable vegetable garden planner — bed by bed with last year beside this year, plus a raising-plants table and a to-buy column.
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2 pages. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
What this sheet is for
Plan the season with last year's beds in front of you, which is the only way rotation decisions get made from fact rather than memory.
Who it is for
Vegetable gardeners, allotment holders, raised-bed growers and anybody planning a plot over winter.
How to use it
- Fill in the 'last year' column first, from last season's sheet.
- Group crops however you group them, and write the grouping down.
- Count the plants you need before ordering seed, not afterwards.
- Keep the completed sheet — next winter it becomes the 'last year' column.
What is on the sheet
2 pages, in this order:
Page 1
Printed under the title: Bed by bed for the whole season, with what grew there last year in front of you while you decide.
Last year's beds beside this year's plan. No rotation rules, spacings or sowing dates are printed here. They depend on your climate, your soil and what you actually want to eat. The sheet's job is to put last year's beds and this year's plan on the same page.
Write-on lines: Garden or plot · Season · Beds · Planned on
Beds
Table, 10 rows: Bed · Size · Last year · This year — main crop · Follow-on · Family or group · Feed or compost · Notes
Page 2
Growing on
Table, 20 rows: Crop · Where started · Sow window you chose · Plant out · Bed · Plants needed · Seed in hand · To buy
Write-on lines: Jobs before the season starts · Reviewed
Questions
How is this different from the allotment plot plan?
The plot plan is a drawing of the ground, to scale. This is a table for the season's decisions: what was in each bed last year, what goes there now, and what has to be raised or bought to make that happen. Many people use both.
Why no rotation rules?
Because they depend on your soil, your climate and what you want to eat, and gardeners disagree about them for good reasons. The sheet puts the information in front of you and leaves the rule to you.
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Also in the resources library
The same subject, with a version you can fill in on screen.
Garden Bed Planning Grid
How many beds there are, how big each one is and which way it faces.
GD-446 Planner PDF Online
Vegetable Planting Planner
What was sown, under cover or direct, and on which date.
GD-42 Planner PDF Online
