Global Vegetable Garden Planner (Printable PDF)

A vegetable garden planner that works anywhere — because it times every sowing from what your soil and weather are doing, not from a date written for somebody else’s latitude. Printable A4 pages: soil-temperature sowing triggers, frost and microclimate basics, 22 crop profiles, evidence-graded companion planting, crop rotation, four diagnostic guides and 14 trackers. Instant PDF download, both hemispheres, reprint every season.

October 2026 Edition · priced in GBP — your card converts to your currency automatically at checkout.

A date means nothing on its own

“Sow in April” is wrong in Sydney, Cape Town, Dublin and Auckland — and different again a hundred kilometres inland. A seed doesn’t know the month; it knows whether the soil around it is warm enough. This planner teaches you to read the six conditions that actually decide planting — soil temperature, last and first frost, night temperature, light and soil moisture — so you can plan correctly wherever you garden.

If you garden in the UK, USA or Canada, the UK, USA and Canada editions add region-specific calendars. Everyone else: this is the one built for you.

What’s inside the global vegetable garden planner

• Understand your garden: soil texture and structure, reading a soil test, soil temperature vs the calendar (with a sowing-temperature table by crop class), frost and cold tolerance, light and shade, water and irrigation basics, microclimates and growing degree days.
• 22 crop profiles: temperature class, sun, spacing, germination time, days to maturity and the condition that triggers planting — cross-checked against our UK, USA and Canada editions.
• Make better decisions: companion planting graded by evidence, crop-rotation principles with intervals by plant family, and diagnostic guides for yellowing leaves, blossom end rot, poor germination and wilting.
• Plan: layout, raised-bed and container planners, crop rotation, succession sowing, seed inventory and seed-starting schedule, fertilizer, irrigation, budget and season-extension planners.
• 14 trackers and journals, including a growth and observation journal, so your own records become your local calendar.

Look inside

How to plan a vegetable garden in any climate

1. Learn your soil — texture, pH and drainage decide what will thrive and how often you water.
2. Measure, don’t guess — a simple soil thermometer at 5–8 cm, read in the morning, tells you when each crop class can be sown.
3. Find your frost window — record your own last and first frost, then count sowings back from them by days to maturity.
4. Rotate by family — never follow a crop with another from the same family — the one rule that prevents most soil-borne problems.
5. Keep records — within a season or two your own notes outperform any generic calendar.

Free templates, apps or a planner: which do you need?

Included free: The SoilCommander Masterclass. An illustrated companion that teaches the methods behind the planner: choosing and sizing beds, reading your soil and pH, rotating by plant family, what companion planting can and can’t do, sowing by frost date and soil temperature, watering to the depth of the roots, protecting crops without guesswork, and the end-of-season review. Every point is checked against RHS and university extension research. Delivered with your planner download.

Who made this planner

Written and fact-checked by the SoilCommander editorial team under the direction of Nitin Sharma, co-founder. Universal science is drawn from FAO, USDA NRCS, university extension services and peer-reviewed research. Browse our free vegetable growing guides first if you like, and tell us if anything doesn’t fit your garden.

What happens after you buy

1. Check out securely — through Shopify’s checkout. Nothing is posted and there is no shipping charge.
2. Download straight away — your download link arrives by email immediately after purchase, together with the Masterclass bonus.
3. Print what you need — the planner is formatted for A4 paper. Print the whole book once, then reprint individual pages — a fresh harvest tracker, another bed plan — whenever you need them, every year.
4. Covered for 30 days — if it isn’t useful to you, contact us within 30 days for a full refund.

Frequently asked questions