Growing a great vegetable garden involves juggling the needs of dozens of different crops. Some like it hot while others prefer cool spring or fall growing conditions. Some can be closely planted while others need lots of room. But figuring out when to plant what — and where — just got easier.
The fastest, easiest and best way to plan and manage your garden all year round. Draw your garden from scratch, or start with a ready-made template garden designed by experts. Get your FREE trial completely risk-free for 7 days (no credit card required).
Learn more about each part of the Garden Planner:
World’s Smartest Garden Planner
Sowing, Planting, and Harvesting
Get a personalized planting chart. Using weather from thousands of weather stations, the Garden planner keep you on track, even sending personalized planting reminders by email. You can print both the plan and plant list as a handy reference to take into your garden.
Companion Planting
An evidence-based companion planting system shows you which plants benefit each other. Crop rotation reminders show you how to avoid pest and disease buildup from one year to the next.
- Plan succession sowings. If you plan to grow fall carrots after spring peas, or plant fall garlic in the same space used for summer snap beans, you can incorporate end dates for certain plantings into your plan. The plan will then show available space for a second crop.
- Plan crop rotations. Plants are coded according to the botanical family to which they belong, and the Garden Planner keeps track of what you have grown where. When you plan next year’s garden based on this year’s plan, the Planner will warn you if you try to follow tomatoes with potatoes, squash with pumpkins, or otherwise violate standard rotation practices.
- Plan cover crop plantings. The Garden Planner includes several common cover crop varieties for improving soil.
Garden Guru
Use our grow guides to organize your beds for companion and succession planting.
Inspirational videos show you the essential steps to gardening success, step by step. The Garden Guru recommends videos based on what you’re growing and the time of year.
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What are gardeners saying about the Garden Planner?
‘Fantastic garden planner’
Fantastic planner! I’m a visual person so I love being able to see my garden layouts before I plant them. This planner keeps me organized and on top of all my gardening tasks. It’s so fun planning my gardens each year.
— Karma
‘So helpful’
The garden planner is great, you can easily see space required, when to sow/plant out, companion plants, crop rotation and more. The team are super helpful as well on the chat, Roisin has been great answering the questions I’ve had so far.
— Michael
‘Keeps me Organized’
I have been using this program for years and it’s excellent. It keeps track of what I did in years past and helps with companion planting and rotation. Tells me how many plants are needed for each space, when to sow, when to plant and when to harvest. I would have no idea what was in my garden without it!
— Colleen
‘Functionality’
Love the multi-year functionality and the customizable notes. The garden planner is easy to use and now is essential to my annual garden plans!
— Lori
“I just wanted to tell you how excited I am that there is finally a way to organize everything for my several gardens. Many other programs list too many plants or are geared toward ‘Master’s Elite’ gardening, but this Planner enables me to do more planning than ever, and it takes the stress off my hands at the same time! Thank you so much for the thoughtfulness and creativity of this all-in-one Garden Planner.”
— Devin Koser
“Wow! I was reading your email (as I always do anything coming from MOTHER EARTH NEWS) and thinking how great it was that you would send an update of when particular vegetables could be sown or planted out. All of a sudden, I realized that not only were vegetables listed, but the email was personalized and named particular varieties that I had entered in my garden plan … AMAZING! Your Garden Planner is incredible, and I plan to use it for many years to come. I can’t believe the amount of work and confusion it has saved me.”
— Christina Scheel
“I’m planning my garden for next year as we’ve just moved to a high altitude area. Thank you for making the Garden Planner so visual and easy to move plants from one area to another. All the useful videos on succession planting, planting reminders, etc., just make it so complete! I’m sure I’ll be subscribing, as I don’t ever want to do without this useful program. You’ve thought of everything — varieties of vegetables, spacing, light exposure, companion planting … I could go on and on. This is just the best!”
— Susan Borgardt
