What fits here now
Open a bed and see what you can still plant there today. Free.
Your garden guide and garden journal, set to your ZIP code.
Sow & Tell knows your growing zone and frost dates. It tells you what to plant and when, reminds you to water and harvest, helps with pests the gentle way, and keeps a record of everything you grow.
What's inside
A full guide, with numbers that mean what they say
Every count below is a real page or entry in the app, written in plain words from university Extension and USDA sources. The whole guide is free.
541plants
Each kind of plant has its own page: vegetables, fruit and nuts, herbs, flowers and bulbs, yard trees, shrubs, native wildflowers, shade plants and houseplants.
6,500+varieties
Named varieties, like 'Cherokee Purple' tomato or 'Bloodgood' Japanese maple, listed on their plant's page.
150+pests
Insects, mites, slugs and animals, each with steps from the gentlest fix to a last-resort spray.
130+diseases and plant problems
Infections like blight and mildew, and problems that aren't germs at all, like overwatering or a nutrient shortage.
140+weeds
How to recognize each one, which ones are dangerous to touch or eat, and how to get rid of it.
46good bugs
Lady beetles, lacewings, bees and other helpers, so you know what not to spray.
Free & Premium
Free for good, with Premium if you want more
There's a lot in both, so each has its own page.
Free no ads, no time limit
- The whole guide, never locked
- Unlimited beds, pots and plantings
- Planting calendar, watering and harvest reminders
- Crop rotation, bad-neighbor and pollination checks, and "What fits here now"
- Say it voice logging and QR plant stakes
- Widgets, Google backup, English or Spanish
Premium try it free for 14 days, no card
- Garden Detective photo ID
- Frost Guard and smart rain skip
- Pest Watch, timed by degree days in your own yard
- A weather diary for every planting, and your garden's own calendar
- Bed layouts, repeat sowing and the winter garden
- Season recap and garden money reports
- Seed Vault, with the seed-saving guard
- Pantry: canned, frozen and dried, with use-by reminders
- Sprout Story time-lapses and the Garden Yearbook
- Soil Notes for every bed
- Family sharing and house-sitter mode
- Seasonal widgets and app icons
New this fall
Things no other garden app does
The newest parts of Sow & Tell, free and Premium, plus 122 new plant pages this fall: nut trees and tropical fruit, more vegetables and herbs, bedding flowers and bulbs, and native wildflowers, shrubs and trees.
Say it
"Picked three zucchini from the west bed." Log it out loud. Free.
QR plant stakes
Print stakes, then scan one to log watering or a picking. Free.
Weather diary
The weather each planting lived through, and why a season went the way it did. Premium.
Degree-day pest timing
Pest alerts timed from your own yard's temperatures. Premium.
House-sitter mode
A care sheet and a sitter code that runs out when you're back. Premium.
Coming next
A friendly gardening community
Share photos of your garden, ask other gardeners for help, and join a group for your growing zone. It will be free, for gardeners 13 and up, with every photo checked automatically before anyone sees it, plus reporting and blocking.
Questions
Good to know
When can I get it?
Now. Sow & Tell is out on Google Play for Android: get it on Google Play. Premium starts with a 14-day free trial, no card.
Is there an iPhone version?
Not yet. Android comes first.
Is it hard to learn?
No. A short "Getting started" checklist on My Garden walks you through your first bed, planting, watering and picking, and its "Show me" buttons point to the right spot on the screen. Premium has its own short tour when it opens.
Where does the information come from?
From land-grant university Cooperative Extension services, USDA and other public research sources, written in our own words. Each page lists its sources. Advice is general, so check the label on any product you use and ask your county Extension office about local problems.
What does "541 plants and 6,500+ varieties" mean?
541 is the number of plant pages, one for each kind of plant, like tomato or hosta. Varieties are the named types listed on those pages, like 'Cherokee Purple' tomato. We count them separately so the numbers are honest.
Does it work in Spanish?
Yes. The whole app, guide included, works in English or Spanish, and so does Say it.
Does Say it send my voice anywhere?
Your phone's own speech recognition turns what you say into words; Sow & Tell only gets the words, and nothing goes to our servers. Depending on your phone, its speech service may work offline or may use the phone maker's or Google's servers, under their privacy policy.
What happens to my data?
Your garden is saved on your phone. Things like sharing, backup and photo ID only send what they need to work, and you can delete your online data from inside the app. Read the privacy policy.
How do I get help?
Email support@czerwonkastudios.com. We read every email.