Garden Planner

Square-foot gardening divides a raised bed into one-foot squares and plants each square by the crop's spacing: one tomato, four lettuces, nine bush beans or sixteen carrots. Pick a crop, click squares to plant it, click again to clear. The planting list under the bed counts squares and plants.

Companion planting is shown as a hint: a green outline means the square sits next to a traditional good neighbour, red a poor one (tomatoes and cabbage, beans and onions). The evidence behind most pairings is thin, so nothing is blocked on it. A ⚠ means the crop wants more sun than you said the bed gets.

Soil is the bed's width × length × depth. Bags round up, since three and a bit bags is four. The square-foot-gardening mix is equal parts compost, peat or coir, and vermiculite; for a bed that is already full, enter a top-up depth instead.

The planting calendar counts weeks from your frost dates: tomatoes start indoors four to six weeks before the last spring frost and go out a week or more after it, peas and spinach are sown a month or more before it, and a fall crop of carrots goes in nine to eighteen weeks before the first fall frost. The offsets follow Cornell Cooperative Extension's vegetable planting guide. A USDA zone only fills in typical dates — zones measure winter cold, not when frost ends — so use your own if you know them. The .ics download puts each task on the day its window opens, and downloading again after changing a date updates those events rather than duplicating them.