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 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…)
The 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!
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 it each year to your unique micro-climate!
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. 
Please feel free to share your favorite local gardening guide 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-
Start seeds in 1/3 time with 3 time more success-
Here are the printable planting calendars for you to download: 2 pages with list of veggies, use stuffit to unzip,and blank one for you to add your favorites. After it opens, just right-click save as! (If you have trouble downloading, it maybe a browser issue, just ask some friends to download and email to you!! )
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?
XO
I really hope to have my own garden one day. It would be so nice to grow fresh fruits and veggies!
I love all the things you have here. I can hardly wait to try doing some of them.
my boyfriend and I just decided to start planting some veggies, we already have them started on seed starter kit and I’m excited for the warmer weather so we can put them in their own pots.
Hi Ananda,
thank you for the PRINTABLE PLANTING CALENDAR !
My wife like it!
Have a great weekend
Uwe
wonderful! thank you uwe!! =)
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!
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! =)
This is a great idea! Gardening is one of those things that I’ve wanted to take up forever, I just need the yard to do it in!
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.
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! =)
I LOVE THIS! I love gardening. Thanks for making something so cute!
enjoy them lana! =)
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.
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! =)
This is so cute! I will definitely be using this! Pinned 😀
Please help me print the planting calendar. I really love it but have tried and tired and can not get it.
hey gloria! email the post link to some friends, they can download & email to you! =)
This is way, way too cute.
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!
love your idea kay! or with our diy seedbox! xx
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!
thank you julie! wish you a gorgeous garden! =)
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!
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.
good idea! i will look into this =)
I’d love the same! Or an editable pdf where we can fill in the names of the plants using that same font?
thank you for the lovely printables. I will note that on the second page of the .zip file tomato is misspelled- it appears tomatoe
thank you tracy!! =)
….i do that to potatoe too! =P
Very excited. I’m missing the link though… Like I’m looking for Waldo! ? Can someone help me out?
hi john, the links are just below the very last photo in the article! =)
Thank you so much! I appreciate you!