UK Vegetable Garden Planner (Printable PDF)

Plan your 2027 allotment or vegetable garden on paper, with sowing dates written for a British season. Printable A4 pages: a sowing page for every month, a frost-date table for eight UK regions, crop-rotation and bed-layout planners, 20 growing guides in UK names and units, and 13 trackers. Instant PDF download, yours to reprint every year.

October 2026 Edition — every growing guide re-checked against RHS guidance this month.

A British spring does not keep to the calendar

A cold, sodden April pushes everything back three weeks — and the gardener who had a plan now has a broken one. Most printable planners are blank grids, and most planting calendars online were written for American gardens. This planner gives you UK timings to start from, then space to cross a date out, write the new one beside it, and keep going.

Not ready to buy? Our free UK vegetable planting calendar gives you the sowing dates for free, and the free online garden planner sketches your bed layout. Come back for the planner when you want the whole season on paper.

What’s inside the UK vegetable garden & allotment planner

• Month by month: for every month, what to sow, what to plant out and a garden task checklist — plus a weather-notes page to record what your season actually did.
• Frost dates for eight UK regions: from coastal Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands and Northern Ireland, with space for your own last and first frost.
• Planning your plot: garden layout and raised-bed planners, a crop-rotation planner with a four-bed rotation for UK plots, seed inventory, seed-starting schedule, fertiliser and irrigation plans, a budget tracker and seasonal planning.
• 20 crop growing guides: tomatoes to Brussels sprouts — sowing months, sun, spacing, germination time, harvest window, soil, watering, companions and common UK problems for each.
• 13 trackers and journals: planting log, germination, watering, feeding, pests, tasks, harvest, yield summary, seasonal review, lessons learned, garden journal and next-season planning.
• Companion planting, honestly: the traditional pairings, with a clear note on which claims have evidence behind them and which are folklore.

Look inside

How to plan an allotment or vegetable garden in five steps

This is the order the planner is built in — and the order that saves the most mistakes:

1. Find your frost dates — use the eight-region frost table to set your last spring frost and first autumn frost. Every sowing date hangs off these two.
2. Map the plot — sketch your beds on the layout and raised-bed pages, noting sun, shade and where the water butt is.
3. Decide the rotation — legumes, then brassicas, then roots, then potatoes and onions — moving each group on one bed a year, because clubroot and white rot persist in soil for years.
4. Schedule the sowing — work through the month pages and the seed-starting schedule, counting back from your frost dates.
5. Record, then review — log what you sowed and harvested. By next winter the trackers tell you what earned its space — the most useful page you will own is the one you wrote yourself.

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

Best for: allotment holders and vegetable gardeners who have found that generic calendars don’t match their season, and want rotation, layout and records in one place. Not for you: if you garden outside the UK — there are USA, Canada and Global editions, each written for its own conditions.

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. Sowing dates and spacings are checked against RHS guidance, and frost dates against Met Office data. The same team writes the UK vegetable growing guides on this site — read a few to judge the advice before you buy. Spot something that doesn’t match your garden? Tell us; corrections go into the next edition.

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

Want to see the thinking behind it first? Read how the UK garden planner works.