Free Vegetable Garden Plans and Layouts

These free vegetable garden plans are one-page PDFs you can print and take to the garden.

Pick the one closest to your space, or use the interactive planner to draw your own layout with the correct spacing.

I am fortunate to live in the countryside in the Willamette Valley in Oregon, where almost everyone I know has at least a small vegetable garden. When I started this website in 2009, I wanted to make it a helpful and inspiring resource for gardeners of all levels of experience. These garden plans are here to make planning your garden more enjoyable, and hopefully a bit more organized if you need help with that.

• 20 x 40 Vegetable Garden Plan (the family-size garden)
• 20 x 40 Vegetable Garden Plan with Corn
• 10 x 20 In-Ground Garden Plan
• 4 x 20 In-Ground Garden Plan
• 4 x 16 Raised Bed Garden Plan
• 4 x 12 Raised Bed Garden Plan
• 4 x 8 Raised Bed Square Foot Planting Plan
• 4 x 4 Square Foot Garden Plan
• Three Half-Barrel Container Garden Plan (great for small spaces)

Want to draw your own? Print our free blank garden worksheets, with grid sheets and raised bed planners.

Interactive vegetable garden planner: drag and drop vegetables into a garden bed. Click image to go to the planner.

Click image to go to our container gardening guide.

Free Vegetable Garden Plans: Pick Your Layout

Click image to download this plan.

These free vegetable garden plans are completely customizable and based on real layouts that work well for home gardeners — not just pretty pictures, but practical starting points you can adapt to your own yard, sunlight, and family's appetite.

Whether you have a tiny patio with room for a few containers, a modest backyard bed, or enough space for a full kitchen garden, there is a plan here sized to fit.

Click image to go to our complete guide to square foot gardening page.

Browse through the options below, pick the one closest to your own space and goals, and use it as a starting point rather than a fixed rule — swap in your favorite vegetables, adjust the spacing to match what you already have on hand, and make it your own.

If you would rather design something completely from scratch, our free interactive vegetable garden planner lets you build and print a custom layout in just a few minutes.

Free printable planning and record-keeping workbook. Click image to go to this page, and download workbook.

This page is part of our Free Vegetable Garden Printables collection, where you will find all our free downloads in one place — worksheets, plans, coloring books, zone charts, and more.

Free Vegetable Garden Printables — all our free downloads for home vegetable gardeners in one place

Click image to download and print this free garden plan.

Additional Gardening Resources

• Get inspired to plan your next vegetable garden! Send for my favorite free seed catalog from Territorial Seed Company.

Free Garden Journal, Zone Finder,
and Planting Calendar

Download our free Vegetable Garden Journal to keep notes and records of your gardening adventures. Next year when it's time to plant again, you will be glad that you kept a journal!

Use our free interactive zone finder to locate your specific planting zone.

Don't plant your garden too early, and experience the frustration of having to start over again.

Use our free interactive zone finder to determine planting times in your area.

Use our gardening diary to keep a permanent record to guide you in the coming years.

It's pretty hard to remember everything from year-to-year, so having a written record will be a big help to you when it comes time to plant next year's garden.

Click image to go to our planting calendar page.

Planning Your Garden Video

Ideas to Help You Get Started

Planning a vegetable garden is the first step towards success.

These free vegetable garden plans and ideas are here to help you get started!

Choose a garden plan that will fit your space.

Remember that you can substitute any of these vegetables for your own garden favorites...these are just suggestions.

Taller plants should be planted on the north side of your garden, medium height plants in the center, and the shortest plants should be on the south side of your garden plot.

This layout will optimize sunlight by preventing taller plants from shading shorter plants.

Involve your family in your gardening adventures. It's a great way to learn together, and spend quality time as a family.

It's also healthy and inexpensive!

Use our Companion Planting Guide to find what grows best together in your garden. Click the image to download this chart.

Learn more about companion planting vegetables and flowers in your vegetable garden!

Flowers add color and beauty to a vegetable garden, and can also provide organic pest control.

Don't miss out on having a healthy and beautiful garden this year!

For additional free vegetable garden layout ideas and plans — including raised bed plans, square foot garden designs, and small space garden layouts — the National Gardening Association at garden.org has an excellent collection of free garden planning resources.

• National Gardening Association — Planning Your Garden — free garden layout ideas and planning resources for home vegetable gardeners

Vegetable Garden Layout Ideas

Growing a square foot garden example.

These free vegetable garden plans shown above are to help you when designing a home vegetable garden.

Download our garden ideas to help design the perfect garden for your needs.

Designing even a small raised bed garden,  a square foot garden, or in-ground row vegetable garden using our vegetable garden layout and planner worksheets can make a delicious contribution to your family meals!

Raised bed vegetable garden example.

Planning a basic or beginner vegetable garden can make a huge contribution to your family's well-being.

If you have limited gardening space, some of these plans are ideal for a small vegetable garden.

Whether you are growing a backyard or patio vegetable garden, using these tips and ideas can help you get organized.

Knot Garden Designs

Knot garden design example. Vegetables can be planted in the enclosed spaces.

• Vegetable crops can be used attractively.
• You can devote small beds to them as part of a formal or informal design.
• These beds do not have to be rectangular shaped.
• One of the most pleasing forms is the ornamental or knot garden, which relies for its appeal on structure and design with a geometric pattern of small beds and pathways.

A plan for a geometric garden of about 38 feet by 46 feet could consist of gravel paths flanked with low hedges.

An example of planting for a knot garden includes: the top bed planted with herbs, the bottom beds with perennials such as rhubarb, side beds with strawberries, artichokes, and annual plants.

This leaves eight 'core' beds for the main crops of vegetables.

A bird bath or water fountain could decorate the central area.

Knot garden design with vegetables, flowers, and statue focal point.

Suggested Vegetables for Knot Gardens

Vegetable Garden Knot Design example.

A mixture of vegetables that are used in making salads can be grown in a knot garden.

Salad-bowl lettuces in various colors are both practical and attractive to plant.

Another bonus to planting lettuce is the crops are relatively long-lived, so harvesting leafs as needed will not leave gaps in the garden.

To have more food available and plus maintain appearances, plant replacements can be continually produced in a seed bed or cold frame.

• Zucchini and cucumbers can be both ornamental and functional planted in borders of the knot gardens.
• Tomatoes are always in high demand and should be given sunny positions and rich soil to produce a quality crop.
• Scarlet runner beans add color and good taste.
• Asparagus adds a delicate, feathery touch as well as a delicious tasting vegetable.

Simple Rectangular Knot Garden Example

Return to our Planning a Vegetable Garden hub for complete guides to garden design, layout, raised beds, containers, and planning tools.

• Planning a Vegetable Garden — complete hub for garden design, layout, raised beds, containers, and planning tools

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