UK Specific Digital Growing Planner 2027 - Plan your garden or allotment for 2027

THIS IS A DIGITAL PRODUCT 

The 2027 Digital Growing Planner tells you what to sow, plant, harvest and do throughout the year, while giving you plenty of space to plan your own allotment, vegetable garden or container-growing empire.

Whether you have an allotment, a few raised beds or three pots and an unreasonable amount of optimism, this planner will help you make better use of your space, stay one step ahead of the seasons and feel far less overwhelmed by the whole thing.

What’s inside?

Monthly growing guides:

Every month from January to December includes:

• Key gardening jobs
• What to sow, plant and harvest
• Seasonal growing advice
• A clear monthly to-do list
• A companion flower suggestion

Fully dated weekly pages for 2027

Every week is already dated and includes practical guidance suited to that particular point in the growing year, alongside:

• Timely gardening jobs and reminders
• Weekly planning space
• Weather notes
• Garden observations
• A useful seasonal prompt

Because “do some gardening at some point in spring” is not quite specific enough.

UK sowing and growing guides

Plan your growing year with:

• A year-at-a-glance UK sowing guide
• Indoor and direct-sowing windows
• Succession-sowing guidance
• Frost-date ranges and plant-protection advice
• Simple crop-spacing and crop-rotation guidance

These tools will help you spread out your harvests and avoid accidentally producing 38 lettuces in the same fortnight.

Companion-planting guidance

Discover practical ways to grow vegetables, herbs and flowers together to make better use of space, attract beneficial insects and create a more diverse garden.

Soil, site and garden-planning guidance

Learn how to work with the growing space you actually have, including advice on:

• Sun and shade
• Soil and organic matter
• Crop spacing
• Crop rotation
• Planning an efficient food garden

Seed-to-garden guidance

Beginner-friendly advice covering:

• Germination
• Growing sturdy seedlings
• Hardening off
• Knowing when plants are ready to go outside
• Transplanting successfully

Plot and bed-planning pages

Map out your allotment, vegetable garden, raised beds or containers using:

• Two whole-space planning maps
• Three aerial planning pages
• Ten individual bed-planning pages

There is plenty of space for planning crop rotations, interplanting and succession sowing without resorting to the back of an old envelope.

Reflections, records and notes

The planner also includes:

• One simple reflection page for each month
• Feeding records
• Harvest records
• Garden problem logs
• Spending records
• Five general notes pages
• A Quick Find contents page
• Page numbers throughout
• An emergency Quick Ticks reset for when life gets in the way

Why you’ll love it

Never wonder what to do next

The monthly guides and fully dated weekly pages give you a clear place to start, even if you are completely new to growing.

Grow more from your space

Use the sowing guides, succession-planning tools and bed maps to reduce empty gaps, avoid gluts and plan more productive combinations.

Make more confident decisions

Understand frost dates, soil, spacing and seasonal timing so you know why you are doing something rather than blindly obeying mysterious gardening instructions.

Learn from your own garden

Track what you sowed, what worked, what failed spectacularly and what you would like to do differently next year.

Who is it for?

The 2027 Digital Growing Planner is suitable for:

• First-time vegetable growers
• New and experienced allotmenteers
• Raised-bed and kitchen gardeners
• Balcony, patio and container growers
• Anyone who wants a practical UK gardening planner
• Anyone who has ever planted something, forgotten what it was and decided to wait and see

What you’ll receive

• One interactive A4 PDF of the 2027 Digital Growing Planner
• The ability to type into compatible PDF fields
• The option to print the full planner or selected pages at home
• Instant access through a download link sent to your email

How it works

1. Add the planner to your basket and complete checkout.
2. Receive your digital download link by email.
3. Open the PDF on your laptop, desktop computer or tablet.
4. Type into it digitally, import it into an annotation app or print the pages you want to use.
5. Begin plotting your highly productive gardening empire.

What is different about the 2027 edition?

I tentatively asked for feedback from everyone who bought last years planner, and, well...

I've removed 12 pages of repetitive reflections, added 22 pages of genuinely useful informative material and rebuilt the sections that were not working as hard as they could.

Generic weeks have become fully dated 2027 planner pages. Quick challenges have been replaced with practical weekly guidance explaining what to do, why it is useful and how to approach it at that particular point in the season.

Complicated soil testing has become simple, actionable advice, while clearer instructions, page numbers, improved layouts and a Quick Find contents page make the whole planner much easier to use.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need an allotment to use it?

No. This digital gardening planner works for allotments, vegetable gardens, raised beds, balconies, patios and container gardens.

Whenever the planner refers to a bed, you can treat that as a planter, pot, trough or other growing area. The sowing prompts, weekly checklists and succession-planning ideas can all be scaled down for smaller spaces.

Is it suitable for beginners?

Yes. The planner was created because gardening information often seems to be either so vague that it is useless or so complicated that you need to lie down halfway through reading it.

Everything is written in plain English, with practical explanations to help you understand what to do and why you are doing it. There is also plenty inside for more experienced growers who want to plan crop rotations, interplanting and succession sowing.

Can I type or draw directly on it?

The PDF includes interactive fields that you can type into using compatible PDF software such as Adobe Acrobat Reader.

You can also import the planner into an annotation app such as Goodnotes or Notability if you want to write or draw on it using a tablet and stylus.

Can I print it at home?

Yes. The planner is designed at A4 size and can be printed using a standard home printer.

You can print the entire planner or only the pages you want to use on paper, such as the bed-planning maps, weekly pages or tracking sheets for personal use only. 

How will I receive the planner?

You will receive a digital download link by email as soon as your purchase is complete. There is no physical product and nothing will be sent in the post.

Can I use it year after year?

The calendar and weekly pages are fully dated for 2027, so those sections are designed specifically for the 2027 growing season.

The sowing guides, plot-design tools, bed-planning pages, tracking logs and educational sections can continue to be used as helpful references in future years. New dated editions will be available for each growing year.

Does it cover flowers or only vegetables?

The main focus is growing food, but the planner also includes companion flowers such as marigolds, nasturtiums and calendula. These can bring more colour and diversity into your garden while supporting pollinators and other beneficial insects.

Is it UK-specific?

Yes. The sowing, planting and harvesting windows have been written with the UK climate in mind, with detailed frost-date guidance and plant-protection advice.

Conditions vary across the UK, so the planner also helps you adjust timings for your own location rather than treating one sowing date as law.

If you grow outside the UK, a separate international digital edition will be available with more adaptable growing guidance and less location-specific timing.