Printable Square Foot Garden Plan (Free PDF)
A bed drawn as one-foot squares, each lettered and numbered, with a planting key underneath and a spacing guide for 1, 4, 9 or 16 plants.
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The grid is the bed. Choose a four by four bed, the classic beginner's box, or a four by eight, and the page draws it as individual one-foot squares with columns lettered across the top and rows numbered down the side. Each square has a writing line in it, so you can put the crop straight on the plan, and faint quarter marks on the centre lines help you divide a square for closer spacing.
Underneath, a key table gives one row per square — A1 to D4, or A1 to H4 — with columns for the crop, how many plants went in that square, and when it was sown. That lettered key is what makes the plan readable in July, when the labels have faded and the plan has to answer what was planted where.
A small spacing guide sits between the grid and the key, showing the dot patterns for one, four, nine and sixteen plants in a square, which is the part of square foot gardening people sketch on the back of an envelope every spring. The four by eight layout also gets a ruled notes panel for what follows what and where the shade falls. Every square and key cell is a form field. One page in US Letter or A4 — print one per bed and keep them together year on year to rotate crops properly.
