Garden Planning System
How much food should you grow?
A simple ay to stop guessing
Designed for gardens with a true growing season… where frost and winter shape what, and when, you can grow.
For a long time, we were guessing what to plant—and it showed.
Some seasons it was too much.
Other seasons, not enough to carry us through.
But the hardest part wasn’t that.
It was not knowing how much was enough.
How many plants?
How much space?
Would it actually feed us?
Most of the time, we were just hoping it would work.
That’s what this changed.
If you want to plan your garden with more clarity, this is what we use.
What we use now
We started mapping things out in a simple way:
how much we actually wanted to harvest
how much that meant we needed to plant
and when it all needed to happen
Nothing complicated—just something that helped us stop guessing.
The Garden Planning System
This is the same system we use to plan our garden.
A simple way to figure out how much to plant—based on what you actually want to harvest.
decide how much food you want to grow
calculate how many plants or seeds you’ll need
understand how much space it will take
map out your planting through the season
And alongside that, a few quiet reference tools we’ve come to rely on over time.
One of those is a seed viability guide—something we use to keep track of how long seeds remain reliable in storage, especially when working across multiple seasons or holding seed back.
It’s a small piece, but it helps bring a bit more certainty to what you’re planting—and what you can still trust to grow
How it works
You start with what you want to harvest.
From there, it shows you:
how much to plant
how much space it will take
and when to plant it
It’s all laid out in a simple format you can adjust to your own space and season.
What’s included
Yield Calculator
Plan how many pounds of each crop you want, and see exactly how much to plant
Planting Schedule
Map out your season step-by-step based on your start date
Interactive Google Sheets
Fully customizable to your space, climate, and goals
Seed Viability Guide
Includes a simple seed viability guide so you know what will still grow—and what to replace.
Who this is for
This is for you if:
you’ve planted too much—or not enough
you want to grow food more intentionally
you’re trying to make better use of your space
you want a simple system to guide your planning
A simple shift
We stopped guessing.
And started growing what we actually needed.
Access
If this is something you’ve been wanting to move toward, you can access the planning system below.
$12 — lifetime
View the planning tools
This is the same system we use in our own garden.
