If you’re new to gardening, planning your garden can be tricky. Depending on where you live, what you’re growing, and the space you’re working with, your garden can look very different. A new interactive vegetable garden planner takes a lot of the guesswork out of garden planning. For free! Here’s how it works.
One of the most popular infographics that we’ve ever shared is this gardener’s cheat sheet. It’s a very comprehensive graphic showing you what, how, and when to plant a huge variety of vegetables. The creators of that graphic guide have released a new vegetable cheat sheet, and this one is interactive.
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Gardeners in the U.S, U.K., and Australia can create a customized vegetable garden plan by answering a few simple questions.You can access the tool here.
I went in and created one for myself, so you can see how it works. It just takes a few steps.
Custom Vegetable Garden Planner
1. Choose your country.
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2. Choose your climate type.
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3. Tell it where you’re planning to grow your food.
4. Give it your name, for the sheet title. Or make up a name!
I chose hot and humid and plot garden, and this is the garden plan it generated for me:
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And here’s the companion planting guide it gave me:
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You guys, planning a garden doesn’t get much easier than that!
Vegetable garden image via Shutterstock; other images via Anglian Home Improvements Vegetable Garden Planner
Thanks for referring; that’s a pretty cool garden generator. I would’ve liked some herbs in there as well.
Great tool but doesn’t include tomatoes, herbs or pest detering flowers… Hopefully an upgrade is in the works ๐