Year-Round Planting Calendar, A5 Spiral-Bound Seasonal Garden Guide for Beginners
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DESCRIPTION
The Year-Round Planting Calendar
A seasonal planting guide for beginners. Four seasons, crop-by-crop tables, and blank space to write in the frost dates that actually apply where you garden.
Why a book and not a notebook
A blank journal assumes you already know what to write in it.
A blank garden notebook
Empty pages, so you have to work out what to sow and when
Seed packets give you months, not your own frost dates
Nothing tells you what to leave alone this month
Gets abandoned by June because there is no structure to follow
This calendar
Crop-by-crop tables for each season, already filled in
Built around your last and first frost dates, not a fixed month
Tells you what to sow, transplant and leave alone, week by week
Blank lines for your own dates, so the book fills up as you use it

What is inside
Six things the book does that a seed packet cannot.
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Seasons, not months
It never says "plant in March". It says what to do at each stage, so the timing still works wherever you garden.
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Frost dates first
The first thing you fill in is your last spring frost and first fall frost. Everything else in the book hangs off those two numbers.
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Cool, warm, transition
Crops are grouped by the weather they want rather than by month, which is why the same page works in a short season and a long one.
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Space to write
Blank lines for your own dates, a log for what you actually planted, and a harvest column so next year is easier than this one.
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Lies flat
Twin-loop wire binding opens flat on a potting bench or a fence rail and folds right back. A glued spine closes itself the moment you let go.
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A5, 21 by 14.8 cm
Small enough to carry out to the beds in one hand, large enough to write in without squinting at the lines.

How the book is laid out
Six sections, in the order you will need them.
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Getting started
How to use the book, and why the "plant in March" rule does not survive contact with real weather.
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Frost dates and seasons
A worksheet for your last and first frost, then the cool, warm and transition seasons explained.
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Spring
Cool-season crops, the planting table, hardening off seedlings, and the late spring transplant check.
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Summer
Watering, support, feeding, shade for the hot weeks, and a daily check list so nothing bolts while you are away.
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Fall
The second sowing window, what to clear, and what to leave standing over winter.
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Winter
The quiet season: planning next year, protecting soil, and the reset that starts the cycle again.
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How to use it in four steps
Fill in your frost dates
Look up the last spring frost and the first fall frost for your area and write both on the worksheet page. If you do nothing else with this book, do this.
Work out which season you are in
Cool, warm or transitional. The book groups crops by which of the three they want, so you follow one thread instead of three different month charts.
Open the chapter you are in
Each season opens with what to sow indoors, what to sow direct, what to transplant and what to leave alone for now.
Write down what you actually did
The log pages are the part people skip and then wish they had not. What you sowed, when it came up, what the weather did. Next spring it becomes the most useful page in the book.

Who it suits
It scales up and down with how much space you have.
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First year growing
Starts with what a growing season actually is, so you are not guessing from the back of a seed packet.
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A bed to manage
Crop-by-crop tables for each season, plus a daily check list for the weeks when everything needs water at once.
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Containers and a small yard
Everything scales down. The frost dates still apply, and the crops that work in pots appear in the same tables.
A page from the spring chapter
This is the planting table as it appears in the book, not a mock-up. Six crops, four decisions each.
✓ means the method applies to that crop. — means it does not.
Specifications

Questions people ask
Will this work where I live?
That is what the frost date worksheet is for. Because nothing in the book is tied to a fixed month, the same tables work in a short northern season and a long southern one. Fill in your own last and first frost dates and the rest of the book falls into place around them.
Are there actual dates printed in it?
No. It is a planting guide, not a dated planner. The book gives you the sequence and the conditions, and the blank lines are where your own dates go. That is the point: printed dates would be wrong for most of the people who bought it.
How many pages does it have?
Four seasonal chapters plus a getting-started chapter, each with planting tables and log space. The page count printed on the copy you receive is the one to go by, since print runs vary.
Is it any use if I only grow in containers?
Yes. The frost dates still decide when you can put anything outside, and the crops that work in pots are in the same tables rather than a separate chapter. What changes is spacing and watering, not timing.
Can I write in it with a normal pen?
The pages are uncoated, so ordinary ballpoint and pencil both take without smudging. A fountain pen may show through slightly on the thinner pages, so a ballpoint or a fine gel pen is the safer choice for the log pages.
What buyers say
★★★★★
First year with a real bed and I had no idea where to start. Filling in the frost dates first made the rest of it make sense. The spring table is the page I keep going back to.
Rachel W. · Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Bought it as a gift for my mother who has gardened for forty years and she still found the cool and warm season grouping useful. The spiral binding is what she commented on first.
Helen B. · Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Small enough to take outside in one hand, which sounds like nothing until you have tried balancing a big hardback on a raised bed. Lies flat, wipes clean enough.
Diane P. · Verified Buyer
★★★★★
The log pages are the part I did not expect to use. Looking back at what came up and when has changed what I am sowing this year more than any article did.
Susan K. · Verified Buyer
Grow something every season
Fill in two frost dates and the whole year falls into place.
Back to the topDimensions are taken from the finished book and may vary by a few millimetres. Colours may look slightly different depending on your screen. Frost dates, hardiness zones and local weather rules vary by region; always check your own local extension service before planting. Seeds, tools and plants are not included.