![]() ![]() How to Use It: Download on desktop or mobile You can also start out with a garden design template to plan a garden or create your own plan from scratch.Īfter you've planned your garden, many of the planners let you print out or save your garden layout, including a list of supplies you'll need to buy to implement your design. Many of these programs let you zoom and move around to get all the features placed exactly where you want them. Here are some other resources for your gardening and outdoor activities, including ways you can get free seeds, free seed catalogs you can request by mail, and free plans to help you build a greenhouse, garden shed, or potting bench. You'll be able to specify size, shape, and terrain, add boundaries such as fences or walls, plan a sprinkler system, place plants, trees, or bushes, and much more. Using a garden planner to plan the layout and contents of your garden is a great way to stay organized and get everything you want out of a garden.Įach garden planner has various tools that will make it easy for you to come up with a plan of action for the best garden beds for your yard. The Spruce Home Improvement Review Board.I'll be sure to share our plans as we finalize them but before you go please let me know what you think of the greenhouse idea, we'll need to decide soon!Ĭlick here for this printable art and other garden-inspired art. ![]() And of course cucumbers, zucchini and squash! I'd also love to try my hand at growing carrots, salad greens, beans and peas this year. The vegetable garden will definitely include the salsa garden I normally grow in containers with tomato, cilantro, and a variety of peppers. I do worry that the greenhouse would be a bit too much in the yard. I love seeing them in the yard but after they started chomping on my hydrangeas and roses last fall they are less welcome. I'd love your opinion on this one-my husband suggested the greenhouse because he knows how much I want a dedicated gardening space and knows that I'm very worried about our deer. I love the idea of a greenhouse like this one, it reminds me of England! I'm thinking they would be nice for border planting as well.įor the vegetable garden, we are in the midst of deciding whether to build raised beds along one of our fence lines or putting in a greenhouse. Right now I'm debating whether to put them in the ground or in containers. I'm planning on planting ranunculus and dahlia bulbs as well as heirloom carnations and zinnias to round out the cutting garden. I also put in some Limelight hydrangea and Incrediball hydrangeas in the fall and am hoping they take off in the spring. ![]() We had four Endless Summer hydrangeas when we bought the house already and some amazingly gorgeous varieties of roses. I also want a cutting garden because I love fresh flowers in the house. My end-state goal for the house is to have a working kitchen garden with veggies, herbs, and possibly some fruits thrown in. That being said, on to the garden planning! I always check with the state extension office when we move for recommended growing dates for the area we live. If you are in the north you may need to start a little later and you'll have a shorter growing season. For instance here in coastal Georgia I'll be doing all of this about one month earlier than this schedule shows because we're zone 8, almost zone 9. This year, now that we're in what we hope to be our "forever" home, I have HUGE gardening plans! To celebrate the start of garden planning season I'm giving you this printable garden schedule!Ĭlick here to download.This is a generic baseline gardening schedule, depending on your zone you may need to skew things to the right or left. With our constant moves with the military I've always limited myself for the most part to container gardening (and this small raised bed I built for $15). I can't even tell you all how excited I am to start a garden this year. ![]()
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