Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Planner: Helpful Garden Tool for Any Gardener

Most Helpful Garden Tool for Any Gardener

Latest version of the OFA Garden Planner includes highly requested features such as layering options for patio and decking spaces, automatically generated shopping lists, access to gardening experts, and much more!

 

The Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Planner is the fastest, easiest, and smartest way to manage your garden all year round. It’s the world’s most popular online garden planning tool—and with good reason! Readers agree that the OFA Garden Planner is the best way to create the perfect layout and schedule, no matter their garden size, choice of plants, or location/Zone.

 

To get started, the Garden Planner’s intuitive step-by-step guide leads users through the drag-and-drop design process. Draw a new garden from scratch, or begin with a ready-made template designed by experts. As plants are placed on the digital plan, the Garden Planner determines the correct spacing, which plants grow well together, and the best times to plant based on your Hardiness Zone. When you’re finished, simply follow the automatically generated sowing, planting, and harvesting schedules for your location. 

 

Working seamlessly across all desktop and mobile devices, including phones, the OFA Garden Planner—the #1 online planner—is constantly being updated with new features, designs, and performance upgrades that take the guesswork out of gardening. Gardeners all over North America have used the Garden Planner to turn their gardening dreams into reality!

The OFA Garden Planner for 2026 includes . . .

• Improved drag-and-drop adaptive design. Easily drag plants and objects directly into your garden plan, rotate whole plans, and add additional space to your plan. Draw beds and move plants or other landscape features, including greenhouses, row covers, and more. Try out different options until you get the perfect layout for your garden!
• NEW! Layering features to plan overlapping spaces. Plan container gardens on patios, hanging baskets on porches, and window boxes on buildings to round out your garden plan. Utilize the integrated feature for metal raised beds, which scales to the actual dimensions of popular corrugated raised beds. Widen and narrow pathways, and add a background image to your plan, such as an overhead photo of your property, to help visualize your future garden!
• NEW! Comprehensive seed inventory and shopping list. Easily add the seeds that you already own, including notes and photos for reference. Once your garden plan is complete, the Garden Planner will automatically generate the list of seeds needed to bring your garden to life.
• Fully searchable resources. Use the built-in Garden Guru to view expert advice, including videos, guides, and articles recommended for your location and season. You can record your garden’s progress through notes and pictures in the online Garden Journal, bookmark your favorite content, and search past years’ gardens with ease. Plus, our expert garden staff are available to help produce your plan or answer questions 7 days a week!
• COMING SOON! Custom drip irrigation kits and sprinkler systems. Place your ideal irrigation system into your garden plan, then order our simple irrigation kit to build it out! Our kit integrates perfectly into any garden plot, whether it includes drip irrigation for tomatoes, flowers, or other delicate plants, or overhead sprinkler options for watering in cover crops or grass seed.

Design your garden at GardenPlanner.Almanac.com

 

The Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Planner is available online for Mac, PC, iPad, or phones at GardenPlanner.Almanac.com. New users can try-before-they-buy with a 7-day free trial (no credit card required!), which includes complete access to all of the Garden Planner’s features. Subscriptions start at $35 annually.

 

ABOUT THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC

The Old Farmer’s Almanac—with its iconic yellow cover and classic corner hole—is part of Yankee Publishing Inc., a 100% employee-owned company in Dublin, New Hampshire. The Almanac editors also produce The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids (Vol. 11 now available) and a collection of wall and desk calendars, including The Old Farmer’s Almanac Planner. They also produce a collection of timeless gardening titles, such as the Flower Gardener’s Handbook, the Container Gardener’s Handbook, and the Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook (now in its sixth printing!).

 

Coming February 2026: The Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide! This magazine’s large, full-color pages are devoted exclusively to gardening with helpful tips, charts, and advice from experts for growing the best vegetables, flowers, fruits, herbs, shrubs, lawns, trees, and more. The 2026 Garden Guide features trendy firefly gardens, new fast-growing veggie varieties, and much more!

 

Daily Almanac wit and wisdom are available through Almanac.com, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Bluesky, and the Amazon Echo voice assistants.

 

Year-round gardening advice is simply a click away—find everything you need at Almanac.com. And, as always, all the Almanac’s products are available at Almanac.com/Shop.