Grow Your Own Food: The 30-Day Field Plan

About this printable

Go from bare ground, a balcony, or a sunny window to your first harvests, using the dates, temperatures, spacing, and fixes that decide whether a garden works.

Grow your own food: the 30-day field plan

29-page printable workbook · US Letter + A4 · instant download

What's inside

• Planting timing chart: 18 crops, counted in weeks from your own last frost date
• Soil temperature table: minimum and best germination temperatures for 17 crops
• 18-crop field guide: sun, spacing, plants per square foot, days to harvest, frost tolerance
• Quick harvests: microgreens, pea shoots, and baby greens inside 30 days
• Sun log, 3 at-home soil tests, raised-bed soil math, container sizes
• Watering math (gallons per inch for your bed) and a simple hose calibration test
• Compost recipe and how to read a fertilizer label
• Diagnosis table: 15 common plant problems → likely causes → what to do
• Day-by-day 30-day plan, 5–40 minutes a day
• Field log, sowing and harvest records, when-to-pick guide, day-30 review, and fall planting count-back

Who it's for

First-time and returning gardeners in the US, with a yard, a patio, or only a windowsill. No experience needed.

What you get

2 PDF files: US Letter (8.5 × 11 in) and A4. Print at home at 100% scale, or write on the pages in GoodNotes, Notability, Acrobat, or any PDF app. Reprint the worksheets every season.

This is a digital download. Nothing will be shipped. After purchase, download the files from Purchases and Reviews on etsy.com in a web browser (digital files can't be downloaded in the Etsy app).

Good to know

• Figures come from USDA, NOAA, EPA, and university Extension sources, listed in the back of the workbook.
• Written for US growing conditions. Timing is counted from your own frost dates; your seed packets and local Extension office have the final word.
• Personal-use license: print as many copies as your household needs. Please don't resell or share the files.

Want the full set? Grow Your Own Food is part of the Homestead Field Workbooks bundle (4 workbooks, save $13). Find it in the Field Workbooks section of the shop.