Allotment Season Plan and Review
Put the plan and the honest verdict on the same page, so the lesson from one season is in front of you when you plan the next.
GR-10 1 page
Growing results and crops · GR-03
Crop Rotation Plan Sheet
A free printable crop rotation plan — beds down the side, the season across, with what went in early, main and late, what stood over winter, and next year's plan beside it.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
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What this sheet is for
See what every bed has carried without trying to remember it, so next season is planned against the real history of the plot.
Who it is for
Allotment holders, kitchen gardeners and anyone growing in beds who wants to move crops around deliberately rather than by memory.
How to use it
- Number or name your beds down the left-hand column once.
- Write in what actually went into each bed as the season goes, not what you intended in March.
- Use the group column if you sort crops into families — your own grouping, not ours.
- Fill the last column in when the beds are cleared, while the season is fresh.
- Keep the finished sheets together; three or four years of them is the useful part.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: Beds down the side, the season across the page — what went in where, so next year's plan is built on what was actually grown rather than what you meant to grow.
Your rotation, written down. Which families you move and how long you keep them apart is your own decision, taken from how your ground behaves and whatever guidance you follow. This sheet does not set a rotation for you; it keeps the record straight enough that you can see at a glance what each bed has carried.
Write-on lines: Plot / garden · Season or year · Number of beds
Bed by bed — write the crop, and the family or group if you work that way
Table, 11 rows: Bed · Early season · Main season · Late season · Over winter · Group · Planned next year
Questions
Why does the sheet not tell me which order to rotate crops in?
Because a rotation that suits heavy clay and a hungry family plot is not the one that suits a dry sandy bed, and growers follow different systems. The sheet gives you the grid and the record; the order is yours to set.
What if my beds are not all the same size?
It makes no difference to the sheet. Name them however you already name them — numbers, letters, 'by the shed' — and the rows work the same way.
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