Garden cards in 3 x 5 and 4 x 6 in, a whole season in one card box

Garden cards keep your vegetable and herb patch organized in a small card box, sized at exactly 3 x 5 in and 4 x 6 in. You get 33 undated pages: seven card designs in both sizes with crop marks, lined and dot grid backs, 24 quick reference cards for common vegetables and herbs and four tabbed dividers. It arrives as an instant PDF download in US Letter and A4.

It is a calm, simple way to plan, plant and record a season, and you only reprint the cards you actually use. No physical item is shipped.

How these garden cards keep your season on track

Give each crop a Plant card for its variety, where the seed came from, sowing date, spacing, sun, water and days until harvest, and file its quick reference card right in front. Before buying more seed, check the Seed inventory card. The Monthly planting card shows what to start indoors, sow, transplant and pick, and the Garden bed plan card, with its square grid and key, makes rotating crops simple.

Write what went wrong and what fixed it on Pest and problem cards, total up your yield on Harvest log cards and carry your best plants forward with Seed saving cards. As the weeks pass, cards move from Seeds to To sow, Growing and Harvested, which a full page garden planner cannot do.

Who this card system is for

• Vegetable and herb growers who would rather keep one card per plant than a bulky binder
• Raised bed and square foot gardeners who map each bed and rotate plant families every year
• Seed collectors and savers who want a clear record of every packet in the seed box
• New gardeners who like a quick card with spacing, depth and timing for 24 popular crops

Design and print details

• Clean, minimal look: white pages with soft blush pink accents that are light on ink
• Generous margins on all pages, so a home printer will not clip anything
• Precise trim sizes with crop marks: 3 x 5 in (7.6 x 12.7 cm, three to a sheet) and 4 x 6 in (10.2 x 15.2 cm, two to a sheet), laid out on US Letter (8.5 x 11 in) and A4 (210 x 297 mm) paper
• No dates printed, so the cards work again every season
• When you print double sided and flip on the long edge, the lined and dot grid backs match up with the fronts
• A separate card system, not the same as our full page Garden Planner

Inside the garden cards: 33 pages

1. 1Cover page listing the contents
2. 2A guide to the card system that walks through the season in five steps (collect, plan, plant, tend, harvest), with a chart of what each card is for, how cards move through the box, a weekly garden check and helpful notes
3. 3Printing, cutting and setup in four steps, the two card sizes, a list of supplies and a table to find each page
4. 4 to 10Seven card designs at 4 x 6 in, two to a sheet with crop marks. Plant card: name, variety, seed source, sowing and transplant dates, bed, indoor start or direct sow, sun, water, spacing, depth, days until harvest, first picking, would grow again and notes. Seed inventory card: nine rows for seed and variety, source, year packed for, amount remaining and a restock tick. Monthly planting card: month pills from Jan to Dec, your zone, last spring and first fall frost, plus start indoors, sow outside, transplant, harvest and extra jobs. Harvest log card: variety, bed, seven rows (date, amount, quality, notes), season total and grow again. Pest and problem card: type of problem, what you notice, a four row log of what you tried and a next time line. Garden bed plan card: a 13 by 9 square grid with bed name, size, what one square equals, season, an eight line key and a north arrow. Seed saving card: variety, parent plant, collection date, drying date, pollinator, method, storage, amount, germination test and notes
5. 11 to 12Backs for the 4 x 6 in cards, one lined and one dot grid
6. 13 to 19All seven designs again at 3 x 5 in, three to a sheet with crop marks
7. 20 to 21Backs for the 3 x 5 in cards, one lined and one dot grid
8. 22 to 2924 quick reference cards at 3 x 5 in for vegetables and herbs. Each shows a simple line drawing, the plant family, sun and water needs, spacing, sowing depth, days to sprout and to harvest, sowing time, frost tolerance, good companions, plants to keep away, one growing tip and lines for notes. Crops covered: tomato, pepper, lettuce, carrot, cucumber, zucchini, bush bean, pea, radish, spinach, kale, onion, garlic, beet, broccoli, sweet corn, pumpkin, potato, basil, parsley, cilantro, dill, chives and mint
9. 30 to 31Tabbed card box dividers at 4 x 6 in for Seeds, To sow, Growing and Harvested
10. 32 to 33Tabbed card box dividers at 3 x 5 in for Seeds, To sow, Growing and Harvested

Files included in your download

• Garden Planting Cards, US Letter PDF (33 pages)
• Garden Planting Cards, A4 PDF (33 pages)
• Read Me First, a brief printing guide (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.

Please note

• You receive a PDF to print and cut yourself. No printed cards are mailed.
• This is a digital file only, and no physical product will be shipped.
• Colors on your screen may differ a little from your printed cards.
• Licensed for personal use. Sharing, reselling or redistributing the files is not allowed.
• Digital files cannot be returned. If a file will not open or print properly, email us and we will sort it out quickly.
• The quick reference cards offer general guidance that suits most home gardens. Timing and spacing change with variety and climate, so always check your seed packet and local frost dates.

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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