The Home Almanac

Vol. I, MMXXVIThe American home, in season.Across all fifty states

Garden Planner

Lay out a raised bed the square-foot way, drop in what you want to grow, and every plant tells you when to start it, set it out, and pick it, computed for your exact place from 30-year NOAA frost normals. Saved to this page, never to an account.

Set your place above and every plant gets its own dates for your nearest official station.

Bed 4 × 4 feet
Tap a plant below, then tap squares to fill the bed. Or fill a starter bed and tweak it.

Pick a plant above, then tap squares to fill them. Tap a filled square to read its dates.

Save across devices Get a code, type it on any other phone or computer, and your place and garden come right back. No account and no email, the code is the only key, so write it down.
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How the square-foot method works

Divide a raised bed into one-foot squares and plant by count, not rows: one tomato, pepper, or cabbage per square; four lettuces or chard; nine bush beans, beets, or onions; sixteen carrots or radishes. It packs more into less space, shades out weeds, and makes a bed easy to plan one square at a time. This planner pairs that layout with the one thing a spacing chart cannot know, the frost calendar of your own town, so every square carries real dates instead of a generic "spring."

It runs entirely in your browser. Your layout saves to this page's address, so Share hands someone the exact bed you built, Save image downloads a picture of it for your phone or a social post, and Print gives you a clean copy and planting table for the shed wall. Nothing is stored on a server, there is no sign-up, and the planner works the same in a private window.