Garden journal booklet: a pocket planting and harvest log to fold

This garden journal booklet prints on your home printer and folds into an undated 24 page pocket book with a layout grid, bed plans, a seed list, planting logs, a log for watering and feeding, a harvest log and to-do pages for each season. The pages already sit in saddle-stitch sequence, two to a side on landscape paper, so you print on both sides, fold the pile down the middle and add staples.

You download a 15 page PDF in two versions. The US Letter file gives you half letter pages, and the A4 file gives you A5 pages (148 x 210 mm). It is ready right away, and nothing is mailed.

How the garden journal booklet follows your season

Draw the whole plot on the layout grid, plan four beds one square at a time, and record every seed packet with its variety, where it came from and how much remains. As the season goes on, the planting log notes what you put in, where it went and when it sprouted, the watering and feeding log keeps track of water, fertilizer and amounts, and the harvest log on the center spread records every basket you bring in.

Since every booklet page takes up precisely one half of the sheet, scissors are never needed. Page 1 prints beside page 24, page 2 beside page 23, and the numbers fall into order once you fold. The finished book is thin enough for an apron or jacket pocket, so it can stay near the back door, and once the logs fill up you just print another.

Who this folded garden log is for

• Gardeners growing vegetables or flowers who want a light paper journal for a pocket rather than a heavy binder
• Raised bed and square foot growers who enjoy planning each bed one square at a time
• Allotment and community garden growers who keep a small booklet for each plot or each season
• New gardeners who want easy pages to remember what went in, when it came up and what they picked

Design, sizes and printing

• Elegant, minimalist look: white pages and soft blush pink touches that use very little ink
• Generous margins all around, so a home printer will not clip anything
• US Letter file: half letter booklet pages (5.5 x 8.5 in), printed two to a side on landscape 11 x 8.5 in paper. A4 file: A5 pages (148 x 210 mm), printed two to a side on landscape A4 paper. The saddle-stitch order is already set, so there is nothing to cut
• Undated, and it works in feet or meters and pounds or kilos, so you can begin in any season
• Pink fold marks on each sheet, a number on each page of the booklet and marks showing where to staple at the center spread

Inside the garden journal booklet: 15 PDF pages

1. 1Cover listing the contents and what the journal holds, with space to write your name and the season
2. 2Printing help with a table of which PDF pages and sheets make up the booklet, how the sheets fit together, double-sided settings, a tip to print a test sheet, steps for manual duplex and a box to note your own printer settings
3. 3Imposition and duplex guide with a map of all 6 sheets showing what lands on each front and back, a five step routine (print, stack, fold, staple, check), and advice on stapling if you have no long reach stapler, keeping the booklet outside and printing extra pages
4. 4 to 15The garden booklet itself, 24 pages across 6 sheets. Cover: contents, plus lines for the season and whose book it is. My garden: location, growing zone, the last frost in spring and the first in fall, full sun, part shade or shade, soil type, pH or soil test, water source, 18 boxes to tick for what you want to grow, and goals. Layout grid: scale, plot size, a north arrow, a square grid filling the page and a key with symbols for bed, pot, path, tap or hose and tree. Bed plans: 4 beds, each on a square grid with lines for size, sun, the previous crop and notes. Seed list over two pages: 38 rows for the plant, variety, where you got it, the year it was packed for and the amount left, plus seeds to buy and notes on your seed box. Planting log over 3 pages: 22 rows a page for the date, plant and variety, bed, whether it was sown or transplanted, the date it sprouted and notes. Watering and feeding over two pages: 43 rows for the date, bed or plant, water, feed, product and amount, and notes, with a feeding routine and a box for this week's rain. Harvest log on the center spread: 43 rows for the date, crop, bed, amount, quality and notes, with your best harvest and what you shared or preserved. Seasonal to-do pages for spring, summer, fall and winter: 18 boxes each with 6 starter tasks already filled in, a 6 row table of what to sow and plant, and notes. Pests and problems: 14 rows for the date, the plant, what you noticed, what you tried and whether it worked, with a watch list and helpful insects you spotted. Plant notes: 15 rows for the variety, how it grew, taste, a rating and whether to grow it again, plus the star of the season and the ones not to repeat. Then a lined page for notes and a dot grid page for sketches. Season review: best crop, biggest surprise, hardest problem, most useful tool, best day in the garden, what worked, what to change and the total harvest. Next season: checklists for growing again and trying something new, a 6 row crop rotation table, and things to build, fix or buy. Back page: notes, garden contacts and suppliers, and an end of season checklist

What you download

• Folded Garden Journal Booklet in US Letter, a 15 page PDF
• Folded Garden Journal Booklet in A4, a 15 page PDF
• 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.

Good to know

• The PDF is designed to be printed on both sides and folded. It is not a hyperlinked digital planner, and paper and a stapler are not included.
• You are buying a digital file. Nothing physical is sent.
• Colors may look a little different on your screen than on paper.
• For your personal use only. Sharing, reselling or passing the files on is not allowed.
• Digital files cannot be returned. If a file will not open or print properly, email us and we will help quickly.
• The watering, feeding and pest pages are only for your own records and do not give gardening or pesticide advice. Frost dates and growing zones depend on where you live, and you should always follow the label on any garden product.
• Printers align the reverse side slightly differently, so try one sheet on plain paper before you print the full booklet.

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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