THE SQUARE FOOT GARDENING PLANNER: A 3-Year Journal for Recording the Planning, Planting, and Care of Your Square Foot Garden

THE SQUARE FOOT GARDENING PLANNER: A 3-Year Journal for Recording the Planning, Planting, and Care of Your Square Foot Garden
Square Foot Gardening Foundation (non-affiliate Bookshop.org link)
$22.99 paperback, available now

Rating: 4.5* of five

The Publisher Says: The Square Foot Gardening Planner contains planting charts, seed and supply trackers, variety reviews, activity logs, design templates, and other items to plan, plant, and tend a SFG. The one-and-only official planner of the Square Foot Gardening Foundation, filled with all the planning tools and data-tracking logs generations of Square Foot Gardeners have been asking for!

Whether you’ve had a SFG for decades or you’re just getting started, The Square Foot Gardening Planner allows you to record all the happenings in your SFG for three full years. Planning a SFG is different than planning a traditional garden. The intensive planting, prescribed spacing, and succession cropping used in the SFG method mean a greater need to plan in advance and keep track of changes. This planner gives you all the tools you need to do just that.

Blank design templates enable you to easily plan each grid square, while planting logs keep your seed-sowing and transplanting efforts on track. Organize chores, record compost additions, and track crop performance in dozens of handy, easy-to-use charts throughout the pages.

Logs and charts found inside include:

Square-by-square planning guides

Seed inventory log

Gardening supplies inventory

Pruning and staking log

Pest and disease tracking

Seed sowing log (for indoors and out)

Transplanting log

By-the-square succession planting tracker

Harvest date and yield records

Variety reviews

End-of-season notes

Daily, weekly, and monthly journal entries

And so much more!

The color-coded pages keep each year artfully organized, and the bright illustrations make this planner a joy to use. It’s the perfect companion for millions of Square Foot Gardeners around the globe.

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My Review: It's time to start next year's garden plans...it's never a bad time to start, frankly. December, in the global north, is the best month to look at the relatively bare ground to think over the possibilities, assess the work load, contemplate the investment, decide on the most likely way to maximize your harvest for money put out.

The way the climate is changing, you'll be wise to begin looking at solutions to food security like this. A small-scale setup is far better able to respond to disasters, to change cropping patterns, to keep the real world in mind. Industrial agriculture can sustain you while you're practicing on the square-foot plans in this book.

It's clear, it's simple, and if you're motivated to keep up with a plan better than wingin' it, this is a one-stop shop. For yourself or a giftee with climate resilience on their mind, this is a lovely, practical package deal.

A view of the basics above...they also provide blanks to photocopy or adapt as you please.

One of the biggest issues stopping people from launching in to projects like gardening is they have to come up with A System. Can't plant stuff if there's not a plan and expect the results to be...anything, really. It's hard enough WITH a system to battle the pests.

A fine launching pad to practical crop-gardening success, inexpensive enough to be a good gift to your budget as well as your giftee. I can't quite finish out that fifth star because I haven't used the information for myself; it's the concept and presentation I rate highly.