Crop Rotation Plan Sheet
See what every bed has carried without trying to remember it, so next season is planned against the real history of the plot.
GR-03 1 page
Growing results and crops · GR-18
Green Manure and Cover Crop Record
A free printable green manure record: what went into each bed and how it grew, when it was cut and dug in or mulched, and how the next crop did.
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2 pages. 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 which green manures earn their place by following each from sowing to the crop after it. The family column keeps mustards and clovers in the right place in your rotation.
Who it is for
Vegetable gardeners, allotment holders and small growers using green manures or cover crops between crops or over winter.
How to use it
- On page one, write the bed, the previous crop, the green manure and its family, where the seed came from and the date sown.
- Copy the rate from the packet and note how much you used and how it grew.
- On page two, on the same line, write when it was cut and how it went back into the soil.
- Note the next crop, the gap left before it went in, and how it did.
What is on the sheet
2 pages, in this order:
Page 1
Printed under the title: Which green manure went into each bed, where the seed came from and how it grew, then on page two when it was cut, how it went back into the soil, and how the crop that followed it did.
The packet's rate, your beds. No sowing rate or waiting time is printed here. The packet gives the rate, and the gap before the next crop depends on the green manure, how it was cut and what follows, so take it from the seed supplier or your growing guide. Mustards count as brassicas in a rotation and clovers, vetch and field beans as legumes.
Write-on lines: Garden or plot · Season · Recorded by
Sown — one line per bed or sowing; keep the same order on page two
Table, 13 rows: Bed · Previous crop · Green manure · Family · Seed from · Sown · Rate · Used · How it grew
Page 2
Cut and what followed — same bed, same line as page one
Table, 13 rows: Bed · Cut on · How · Problems · Next crop · Planted · Gap left · How it did
Ruled lines: Season notes: what to sow where next year, and what to leave out
Questions
Why is no sowing rate or waiting time printed?
Because they differ by green manure and by how it is cut and what follows it. The packet gives the rate, and the seed supplier or your growing guide gives the gap. The sheet records what you did, so you can see what worked.
Why note the family?
Because a green manure belongs to a plant family like any other crop. Mustards are brassicas and clovers, vetches and field beans are legumes, so they need to fit your rotation as well as feed the soil.
How is this different from the crop rotation plan?
The rotation plan says what goes where each season. This record follows each green manure in detail, from sowing to the crop that came after it.
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