Free gardening tools
Free tools for people who grow things, and for allotment societies, gardening clubs and shows: frost dates and planting times for your area, plot plans, spacing, ponds, soil, seed swaps and show cards. Nothing to sign up for.
- UK frost dates by weather stationAverage last spring and first autumn air-frost dates at Met Office weather stations across the UK. A guide, not a guarantee.
- When to plant, worked out for where you livePick your nearest weather station and see when to sow and plant about twenty common crops and flowers, as real dates for that place.
- Allotment plot plannerGive the size of your plot and how many beds you want, and the planner shares it out and sets a crop rotation for the next three or four years.
- Seed spacing calculatorChoose a crop and give the size of your rows or bed.
- Companion planting chartCompanion planting means growing plants side by side so one helps the other.
- Water butt calculatorType the size of your roof, shed or greenhouse and where you live.
- Raised bed soil and gravel calculatorType the size of your beds, borders or paths and how deep you want to fill them.
- Pond volume calculatorType the shape and size of your pond to find how much water it holds, in litres and UK gallons.
- Seed swap kitEverything you need on paper to run a seed swap: packets to fold and glue, labels, a sign for the table and a sheet for people to sign in.
- Flower and produce show entry helperType your entries and print a card for each one, sorted in class order, with a checklist for the night before and the morning of the show.
- Birth flower finderPick a month to see its birth flowers and the print of that pair.
- Gift finder for gardenersSay what a gardener grows and see the print that fits.
For allotment societies, gardening clubs and shows
Every tool here is free to use and free to link to. If you run an allotment society, a gardening club, a community garden or a village show, put a link in your newsletter or on your website. The plot planner, the seed swap kit and the show helper all print clean A4 sheets for the noticeboard.
The frost date finder can sit on your own website too. The code to copy is at the foot of the frost dates page.
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