Garden/Plot/Bench Planner & Scheduler

Draw your ground to scale, lay in beds of any shape, then drop plants sized to their real spacing. We label each plant, show the dimensions, flag neighbors that dislike each other, and build a planting calendar for everything you plant. Home plots go up to 20 ft per side; a Commercial plan takes the same tool out to field and greenhouse-bench scale.

About this tool: spacing, beds, and sun

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Each plant's box is sized to its mature footprint, not the little transplant you set out. Space to the boxes, not to how small the seedlings look now, and don't let boxes overlap. Draw the plot to the area that actually gets 6+ hours of sun too, since crowding and shade are the two things that quietly wreck a plan you laid out perfectly on paper.

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Plot width (ft)

Plot depth (ft)

Set the overall plot, then add beds and plants below. Changes save automatically.

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Your garden

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What's planted

Planting calendar

Your last spring frost

Box sizes use typical in-row spacing as a starting guide; adjust the spacing for your variety. Give sprawling crops like squash and pumpkin room beyond their box, and rotate plant families between seasons.

About this tool: spacing, beds, and sun

Space the mature plant, not the seedling

Four inches apart looks generous in June and is a mildewed thicket in August. The between-row number on a packet exists so you can walk and hoe; in a bed you reach into, space equidistantly in all directions instead. That is what this planner does.

Bed dimensions that work

4 ft wide, or half that against a wall. Never stand on the soil.
Paths 18 to 24 inches, with one wide enough for a barrow.
8 to 12 inches deep over workable ground.

Sun is the constraint you cannot fix later

Crop type	Direct sun
Fruiting crops (tomato, pepper, squash, cucumber)	6 to 8+ hours
Root crops (carrot, beetroot, onion)	5 to 6 hours
Leafy greens and most herbs	4 to 6 hours, and they tolerate afternoon shade

Tall crops on the north side, and use the shadow: lettuce behind staked tomatoes runs weeks longer. Field beds are set by your equipment first.

Rotate by family, not by plant

Pests specialise in families, so tomatoes where the peppers were achieves nothing. Three or four year cycle:

Nightshades: tomato, pepper, aubergine, potato
Brassicas: cabbage, kale, broccoli, radish, turnip
Cucurbits: squash, courgette, cucumber, melon
Legumes: peas and beans
Alliums: onion, garlic, leek
Umbellifers: carrot, parsnip, celery, dill

Garden/Plot/Bench Planner & Scheduler