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Printable Planting Calendar + 3 Ways to Use It

Here’s a little spring present for you- a set of lovely and free printable planting calendar !

The easiest DIY ever!! Just print as many as you want, and have fun using it!

I designed this planting calendar to use in several ways –

1. as a reminder of when to plant ( you know those “Oh we could be eating tomatoes right now if we planted earlier..”)

2. as a record of harvesting time vs planting time (wow we are eating tomatoes in June from those seeds planted in… )

3. as a journal to help us fine tune the best planting time each year ( those Broccoli plants took off in October, but they did not in November…)

A set of beautiful and free printable planting calendar that you can customize | A Piece Of Rainbow

( Some of the helpful resources are affiliate links. Full disclosure here. )

I like to print our planting calendar on this nice card stock.

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The planting calendar prints out on letter size paper. Two of the sheets list vegetables from A to Z.

The third sheet is all blank, since I might have missed some of your favorite veggie, or you can use it for herbs, flowers, etc!

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You  can invent different color symbols for starting seed, transplanting, and harvesting. Every region has local planting guides, use them as a start. Observe and fine tune your own planting calendar each year to your unique micro-climate!

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If you live in California or similar climate, there’s a great book called Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California which has a wonderful planting calendar and lots of great tips. planting-calendar-apieceofrainbow (1)

Please feel free to share your favorite local gardening guide and planting calendar resources by leaving a comment here! =)

Before I say goodbye for the weekend, here are a couple of related posts you may like:

Make a seed storage box from 2 shoe boxes-

Make A Seed Box for organized storage | A Piece of Rainbow

Germinate seeds in 1/3 time with 3 time more success-

Start seeds fast and easy way | A Piece of Rainbow

Here are the printable planting calendars for you to download: 2 pages with list of veggies, and a blank one for you to add your favorite plants.

After talking so much about seeds, I have to end this post with my favorite lines from A Bug’s Life:

Flik: Here, pretend – pretend that that’s a seed.
Dot: It’s a rock.
Flik: Oh, I know it’s a rock, I know. But let’s just pretend for a minute that it’s a seed, alright? We’ll just use our imaginations. Now, now do you see our tree? Everything that made that giant tree is already contained inside this tiny little seed. All it needs is some time, a little bit of sunshine and rain, and voilá!
Dot: This rock will be a tree?

Happy planting! See you next week!

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Comments

  4. Kay

    You are so very creative & we so appreciate that you share your wonderful ideas with us.
    With all the snow on the ground it’s especially gratifying to be thinking of planting seeds in the near future
    Your Planting Calendar is very fresh & I would love to use it; however the blank calendar does not download whereas the printed calendars do…..can you please help with this?!
    Thank you so very much!

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    • ananda

      thank you kay! =) the printed/2 page link is a zip file, and the blank one is one page, after it opens, just right-click save as! hope that helps! =)

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  6. Usa Klein

    I cannot print the calender! Always a shadow over the picture everytime I move the cursor over it.
    Did I miss anything print this?
    Thank you.

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    • ananda

      there are links at the end of the post! the printed/2 page link is a zip file, and the blank one is one page, after it opens, just right-click save as! hope that helps! =)

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  8. gloria

    I can not print the page. When I click on the “Printable Planting Calendar + 3 Ways to Use It” ,it goes back to the same page each time. Help please.

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    • ananda

      look for links at the end of the post! the printed/2 page link is a zip file, and the blank one is one page, after it opens, just right-click save as! hope that helps! =)

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  12. Kay

    Of course!
    Why didn’t I think of right clicking???
    All pages print beautifully…thank you so very much.
    These will make a wonderful present given w/ some seeds for planting SOON!
    Thank you very much!

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  13. Julie Mikkelsen

    Thank You SO MUCH!!! I’ve just gathered all my seeds and favorite flowers, so now I’m gonna get ready and organized this years gardening!!
    Might get addicted to Your blog <3 Lots of sunny thougths from me!

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  14. Patricia Burman

    I love the planting calendar! This year I was having my first garden and I didn’t use any calendar or an organizer as I was not really sure what I was doing. It was all chaotic but the garden is beautiful and I had the luck that everything grew big and healthy! I am so into gardening right now that I want to learn more and more about different plants. Thanks for sharing the planting calendar! I will definitely use it next year! Greets!

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  15. Beata

    Love the calendar, just wish it was in a word type document for easier editing so my Type A personality can keep it neater than my handwriting.

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  16. tracy g

    thank you for the lovely printables. I will note that on the second page of the .zip file tomato is misspelled- it appears tomatoe

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  21. Patricia

    This is a very nice app. I was looking for something that was cheerful and I could find in all my stuff right away. Will help to figure out problems in the garden.

    Wish I could be with you right now as I am in Michigan and it is miserable!!!!

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  22. Marilyn Kaplan

    I am SO thankful to you that you recycled this article! I needed this for my organization and ALSO to get me started planting on time. Wet and windy year this past and still wet and windy so I will have the time to get myself started. I also LOVE the shoebox seed organizer as my seeds are in a shoebox but just tossed in and it’s a pain to find what I want. I love this! You should do this one every January for those of us new to you! I’ve begun having vision issues (early macular degeneration) and this is VERY timely so I can get more deep colored veggies growing.

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  23. Alaina

    For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to actually download this template! I’ve registered my email but every time I click the print link at the bottom of this article, I am just taken to the Subscribe page, no downloads pop up at all. What am I missing?!

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