A5 garden planner inserts to map beds, track seeds and log harvests

This A5 garden planner is a set of 26 undated insert pages for A5 ring binders, Half Letter binders and discbound planners, made for sketching your beds, keeping tabs on seeds, planning month by month and recording every harvest. You receive an A5 PDF and a Half Letter PDF, plus print-and-cut versions for A4 and US Letter paper with two pages per sheet. It downloads instantly and nothing is shipped.

Plan in winter, sow in spring, and remember next year exactly which tomato was worth growing again.

How the A5 garden planner shapes a better season

Begin with the basics of your plot: growing zone, frost dates and soil. Then draw the full garden on a layout grid and plan up to six raised beds square by square, using an easy square-foot spacing guide. A four year crop rotation table, a seed stock list and a log for seed starting follow every seed from its packet into the ground.

The planting calendar spans two pages and all 12 months, split into half-month cells, so you can mark when each crop is sown indoors, sown outside, transplanted and picked. Nothing is dated, so begin in whichever season you like and print the logs, plant profiles and journal pages again as they fill.

Who this garden journal is for

• Owners of an A5 6-ring binder, a Half Letter binder or a junior discbound planner who want garden pages close to their weekly plans
• Raised bed and square-foot gardeners who like every bed planned before planting day
• Growers of vegetables and herbs who want seeds, sowing dates and harvests kept in one small book
• New gardeners still learning their frost dates, and experienced growers keeping a record from year to year

Design and printing details

• Elegant and minimal: white pages with soft blush pink details that go easy on ink
• Roomy margins, so nothing is trimmed by a home printer
• Two portrait page sizes, A5 at 148 by 210 mm and Half Letter at 5.5 by 8.5 inches, plus print-and-cut sheets for A4 and US Letter
• No dates and no fixed region: write in your own zone and frost dates and begin in any season
• Margins that alternate: the wider 14 mm binding edge sits on the left of odd pages and the right of even ones, with 8 mm at the outside
• Writing lines spaced 6.5 mm or more, so a small page stays easy to fill
• A dashed line down the middle and small cut ticks on the print-and-cut sheets, so a single cut gives you two pages
• Keep it in a binder or on a clipboard, or have a print shop spiral bind it

Inside the A5 garden planner: 26 pages

1. 1Cover listing all 26 pages, with lines for the gardener and the season
2. 2My garden at a glance: growing zone, hours of sun, last frost in spring and first frost in fall, soil type, where water comes from, garden size and the compost spot, a checklist of garden types (raised beds, in-ground, containers, balcony, greenhouse, community plot), 5 numbered goals and why you garden
3. 3My grow list: 11 lines with check boxes for vegetables and 11 for herbs, then 6 for flowers, 6 for fruit and 6 for tools and supplies
4. 4Garden layout: a line to note your scale, a key for beds, paths, containers, trees, water and compost, and a grid of 18 by 22 squares to draw the garden as seen from above
5. 5Sun and soil: a 7 row light table (location, hours of sun, what grows best there), a soil test box (pH, texture, drainage, test date, compost added, home kit or lab) and improvements to make
6. 6 and 7Raised bed planner across a spread: a square-foot spacing guide, six bed grids of 4 by 4 squares each with a name and size, and what each bed grew last season
7. 8Crop rotation: the four plant groups (leafy, fruiting, roots, legumes) and a four year table for 6 beds with 3 extra blank rows
8. 9Seed inventory: 15 rows for seed and variety, type, how many, sow by date and used, plus seeds you need to buy and ones to swap or share
9. 10Seed starting log: 15 rows for the plant and the dates it was sown, came up, was potted on and went outside, plus reminders and what to try next time
10. 11Companion planting: 5 well known pairings to try, 4 pairs that are usually kept apart, flowers that help, and an 8 row table for your own companion notes
11. 12 and 13Planting calendar spread, January to June on one side and July to December on the other, with 17 plant rows, cells for each half month and a key (S sow indoors, O sow outdoors, T transplant, H harvest)
12. 14 and 15Plant profiles, one on each page: plant, variety, where it came from, days until harvest, spacing, its bed or spot, four key dates, check boxes for sun, water and grow again, care notes and how it performed
13. 16Watering and feeding log: 15 rows for the date, bed or plant, water, what it was fed and notes, plus your feeding schedule
14. 17Pests and problems log: 11 rows for the date, the plant, what you spotted, what you tried and how it went, plus gentle remedies to test
15. 18Harvest log: 17 rows for date, crop and variety, quantity and notes, plus your best harvest and a season total
16. 19Preserve and share: a 9 row table for date, crop, method and amount, who you shared with and favorite recipes from the garden
17. 20 and 21Seasonal tasks spread: spring, summer, fall and winter each get 6 tasks already written and 3 blank lines, plus a checklist for every week
18. 22Garden journal: 3 entries, each with the date, the weather and 5 lines
19. 23Garden notes: what is in bloom, what will ripen soon, what you noticed this week and an empty box for sketching a bed, a leaf or a flower
20. 24Garden budget: budget, spent and left, the biggest expense and best bargain, and a purchases table of 14 rows
21. 25End-of-season review: what thrived, what struggled, your favorite variety, the biggest surprise, a rating from 1 to 10, what to grow again, what to skip, what is new to try and notes for next season
22. 26Lined notes with a line for the date

Files in your download

• A5 Garden Planner in A5 (148 x 210 mm), a 26 page PDF
• A5 Garden Planner in Half Letter (5.5 x 8.5 in), a 26 page PDF
• Print-and-cut A4 PDF with two A5 pages on each landscape A4 sheet, 13 sheets
• Print-and-cut US Letter PDF with two Half Letter pages on each landscape Letter sheet, 13 sheets
• Read Me First, a guide to printing, cutting and hole punching with a page finder (PDF)

How to download and print

• Check out with PayPal, a debit or credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Your download page opens as soon as the payment goes through.
• We email the same private download links to you, so you can download your files again later.
• Open the PDF in a free reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and print at 100% or Actual size.
• Print only the pages you need, as often as you like, for your own personal use.

Good to know

• These PDFs are made to be printed. They are not a hyperlinked digital planner, though most note taking apps will let you import the file and write on it.
• This is a digital product, so nothing physical is shipped.
• Printed colors can look a little different from your screen.
• For use in your own home only. Please keep the files to yourself and do not resell them.
• Digital files cannot be returned. If something will not open or print properly, email us and we will help right away.
• Ring spacing varies from brand to brand, so the pages carry no punch marks. Punch the wide inner margin with your own A5 6-hole, junior or disc punch.
• This planner helps you plan and keep records. Planting times, spacing and companion pairings are broad guidelines that change with region, climate and variety, so check your seed packets and local frost dates. Follow the label on any garden product, and use tested recipes for canning or preserving.

How this was made

Designed and written by PetiteDiary. AI tools helped draft parts of the text, and some background scenes in the preview images were created with AI. Every page was designed, reviewed and checked before release.

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