The Lawn & Garden Year Planner
Every month's lawn and garden to-dos on one page, a year-at-a-glance calendar for cool- and warm-season grass, and the logs that make next year easier than this one.
- 12 month pages with separate lists for cool-season and warm-season lawns, a garden list, and what to watch for.
- Year-at-a-glance charts for fertilizer, pre-emergent, weed control, grub control, aeration and seeding windows.
- 14 logs and trackers: mowing, fertilizer, watering, soil tests, pests, planting, harvest, equipment and more.
Works in every USDA zone 3–10. Print the pages you need, as many times as you like.
Lawns don't run on dates. They run on timing.
Pre-emergent goes down when the soil hits 55°F, not on a Saturday in April. Cool-season grass is made in September. Warm-season grass wants nothing until it's fully green, then wants feeding all summer. Miss a window and you spend the rest of the year catching up.
The planner lays the whole year out in order, tells you how to shift it for your zone, and gives you somewhere to write down what you actually did, so you stop re-learning the same lessons every spring.
Written for both lawn families
Cool-season (tall fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, perennial rye, fine fescue) and warm-season (bermuda, zoysia, St. Augustine, centipede, bahia) get their own checklist on every month page, plus their own year-at-a-glance chart. A frost-date table and a simple "shift it by zone" guide cover zones 3 through 10.
39 pages. Print what you'll use.
Getting started
How to use it, a Yard Profile page, frost dates and growing season by zone, mowing heights by grass type, and the fertilizer math that turns "1 lb of nitrogen" into pounds of product.
Year at a glance
Two one-page calendars (cool-season and warm-season) showing the main and optional windows for every task, plus a garden seed-starting schedule keyed to your last frost date.
Month by month
January through December. Lawn tasks for each grass family, garden tasks, a "watch for" list of the weeds, pests and diseases showing up that month, and room for notes and dates.
Seasonal checklists
Spring, summer, fall and winter on one page each, with space for products, rates and dates applied, and what you'd do differently.
Logs & trackers
Mowing, fertilizer and treatments, watering and rainfall, soil tests, weeds and pests, planting, harvest, equipment maintenance, purchases and budget, and a season review.
Garden bed layout
Two sheets of quarter-inch grid paper for drawing beds and rotating crop families, plus notes pages.
One month, one page
Each month opens with the theme of the month and a one-line reminder of how to shift it for your zone. Below that: a cool-season list, a warm-season list, a garden list, the problems to watch for, and links to the articles on this site that go deeper on each task.
The logs are plain tables with real room to write. A fertilizer log stops double applications. A mowing log shows you when the blade went dull. A soil-test record with target ranges tells you whether that lime did anything.
It's for you if…
- You take care of your own lawn and want to stop guessing when to do things.
- You've bought the products but aren't sure you're using them at the right time.
- You keep a vegetable or flower garden alongside the lawn.
- You like a paper checklist on the garage wall more than another app.
It's not for you if…
- You want a lawn-service contract. This is for people doing the work themselves.
- You want product brand recommendations. The planner gives timing and rates; product choice is yours (the linked articles help).
- You need a digital, fillable app. This is a print-at-home PDF.
Three steps, five minutes
Buy
Secure checkout. The download link lands in your inbox right away.
Fill in your Yard Profile
Zone, frost dates, grass type and lawn size. Everything else keys off that page.
Print this month
Stick it on the garage wall. Reprint logs whenever you run out of lines.
FAQ
Which zones and grass types does it cover?
USDA zones 3 through 10, and both lawn families: cool-season (tall fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, perennial rye, fine fescue) and warm-season (bermuda, zoysia, St. Augustine, centipede, bahia). Month pages are written for zones 6–7 with a simple rule for shifting them earlier or later, and page 4 has a frost-date table for every zone.
Is it dated? Will I need a new one next year?
No dates printed anywhere, so it never expires. Print fresh month pages and logs each year.
What format is it?
A single PDF, 39 pages, US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), designed to print well in black and white. It opens on any phone, tablet or computer, and the article links inside are clickable.
Can I fill it in on my iPad or computer?
It's designed for printing. You can annotate the PDF in apps like GoodNotes or Preview, but the fields aren't form-fillable.
How do I get the file?
Right after checkout you'll see a download button, and a link is emailed to you so you can grab it again later.
What if it isn't what I expected?
Reply to the receipt email within 30 days and you'll get a refund, no questions asked.
Put the whole year on paper.
39 printable pages, both lawn families, every month, and the logs to track it all. $9, one time.
Timing guidance is general. Always follow product labels and your local extension office's recommendations. For personal use; please don't share or resell the file.