Design Tool

Garden Planner

Ensure your specific garden bed reaches its full potential, with layout worksheets, companion planting reference, and a season-by-season planting calendar scoped to a single growing area.

Where the Permaculture Planner covers a whole property, this is scoped tightly to a single garden bed or growing area, the kind of focused planning that actually gets used because it does not ask you to solve your entire property at once.

Companion planting reference pages help you avoid common pairing mistakes, and the season-by-season calendar keeps succession planting organized so a bed stays productive across the growing year instead of peaking once and going quiet.

Bed layout worksheets

Grid-based planning pages sized for typical garden bed dimensions

Companion planting reference

Quick-reference pairings for common vegetables, herbs, and flowers

Season-by-season calendar

Succession planting schedule to keep the bed productive year-round

Format

Printable PDF

Who this is for

For the focused
garden bed, not the whole yard.

This is the right scope if you already know roughly where your garden lives and want to plan what goes in it well, rather than redesigning your whole property. It is the most approachable of our planning tools for someone just getting into intentional growing.

The companion planting reference alone saves a lot of trial and error for a first-time or early-stage grower, and the succession calendar prevents the common mistake of planting everything at once and having nothing later in the season.

What to know before you buy

This does not cover whole-property zoning or larger design decisions - for that scope, the Permaculture Planner is the better fit.

Companion planting guidance is general reference, not a substitute for knowing your specific soil and microclimate conditions.

Common questions

Before you buy.

Is this for a specific size of garden?The worksheets are grid-based and adaptable to most typical home garden bed sizes, from a small raised bed to a larger in-ground plot.

Does it cover fruit trees or just vegetables?It is focused on annual vegetable and herb beds. For fruit trees and perennial plantings, our individual plant pages and guild field guides are a better fit.

How is this different from the Permaculture Planner?This is scoped to one garden bed. The Permaculture Planner covers whole-property zoning and design.