The drawing board
Rectangles, ellipses, triangles, L-shapes and free-drawn curvy beds. Rotate them, round their corners, and fill them with plants at true spacing.
The Cottage Garden Companion
A Backyard Cottage-Garden Companion
The Cottage
Garden Companion
Every garden starts as one seed and a plan.
Sow on time.
Frost dates from your nearest station — 7,400 of them across the US and Canada — or your own numbers. Not a generic zone.
At honest spacing.
True footprints and real quantities. Draw a curvy bed, tuck plants in, and it tells you when it's full.
With good neighbours.
460+ companion pairings, crop-rotation warnings, and a memory of what grew here last year.
Now you're looking at a plan.
Which is exactly where The Cottage Garden Companion begins.
What it is
Pressed-herbarium looks,
working-almanac bones.
A garden planner that behaves like a good notebook: it remembers, it warns you kindly, and it prints. Draw the plot, sow on time, harvest well.
The almanac
Your frost dates drive a per-crop planting chart and a friendly what-to-do-this-month view. Season extenders shift the windows for you.
Memory & wisdom
Next year's plot remembers this year's: rotation warnings, companion suggestions, and a journal that keeps the score.
The almanac runs deep
Never plant blind.
850+ plants, herbs & flowers
each pressed onto a page of its own — spacing, sowing windows, rotation family, and a hand-drawn portrait
- Companion pairings who thrives beside whom, and who quarrels
- Frost dates from your nearest station, across the US & Canada
- Harvest & storage when to pick, and how to keep it through winter
- Pests & problems named, diagnosed, and kindly fixed
- Garden allies the ladybirds and lacewings worth inviting in
Your plot is waiting
Plan the plot,
sow on time, harvest well.
Sketch a bed, tuck in a few seedlings, and watch the calendar fill with sowing days.
No credit card to wander in. Printing is free and never paywalled — if you ever lapse, your plots stay readable. No lockouts, ever.