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Garden Planning Tools

Everything here takes something from you — a bed size, a ZIP code — and hands back a plan. Nothing to install, nothing to pay for.

Four garden crops drawn as flat illustrations on rounded tiles: a carrot, a lettuce, a leaf and a pepper

A bed layout

Garden Bed Planner

Drag crops onto a grid, see spacing at a glance, and get warned when two plants should not sit next to each other.

A grid of tiles shading from pale spring green through deep summer green to autumn orange, with seedlings and a carrot

Your sowing dates

Planting Calendar by ZIP Code & USDA Zone

Enter a ZIP code to find your hardiness zone, then read off when to start seeds indoors, transplant, direct sow and harvest.

Looking for reference material rather than a tool? See the planting guides.