My Garden
One page with what's ready to pick, which beds need water today, the weather and what's coming up next. Long cards fold so it stays tidy.
FREE
Everything here is free, for good.
No ads, no time limit and no card. Free covers a whole real garden, from the first seed to the last picking, plus the full guide. Here's every part of it.
- Unlimited beds, pots and plantings
- The whole guide, never locked
- English and Spanish
Set up once
Set to your ZIP code
Type your ZIP code and everything in the app lines up with your growing zone, your frost dates and your weather.
Planting calendar
When to start seeds indoors, set out transplants and plant again for fall, worked out from your own frost dates. "Plant this month" lists what fits right now.
Weather and frost dates
The forecast for your ZIP code from the National Weather Service, your typical last spring and first fall frost, and your hardiness zone.
Getting started New
A short checklist on My Garden walks you through your first bed, planting, watering and picking. "Show me" lights up the right button on the real screen.
Your whole garden on one page
Open the app and see what to do today.
Planting dates for your zone
Built from your own frost dates.
Plan & plant
Plant the right thing in the right spot
Add as many beds, pots and in-ground spots as you like. Sow & Tell checks your choices the way an experienced gardener would.
Beds, pots and in-ground spots
Raised beds, containers, and trees or shrubs right in the yard. Each spot keeps its own plantings, watering and history. No limit on how many.
What fits here now New
Open a bed and see which crops you can still plant there today: ones that grow in your zone, have time to ripen before frost, follow good crop rotation and get along with what's already growing. Tap one to plant it.
Plant checks
Warnings before you plant the same family in a bed too soon, plants that hold each other back, and fruit trees that need a pollination partner.
Garden journal and history
Every planting with its variety, date, method, photos and notes, and what happened to it. Garden history shows what grew in each bed in past years.
Water
Never forget to water
Every spot gets its own schedule and a water drop that empties as the days go by.
The water drop
A full drop means watered; an empty red one means today. Tap Watered and it fills back up.
Watering schedules and reminders
Pick the days for each bed, pot or tree. A reminder comes at the time you choose, and "It rained" pushes it back after a real soaking.
Your own reminders
Anything else you want to remember, like feeding the roses or turning the compost, on the days you pick.
One drop per spot
Beds, pots and in-ground trees each get their own schedule.
Harvest
See what your garden gives back
Harvest alerts and the harvest log
A heads-up when a planting should be close, a "ready to check" card, and a log for every picking by weight or count.
Harvest totals
Everything you picked this season, priced at USDA average store prices, so you can see what your garden saved you.
Sow & Serve
Ideas for what you picked, tested canning and freezing steps from USDA and the National Center for Home Food Preservation, and how to keep it fresh.
Garden money
Log what you spend on seeds, soil and supplies and keep a running total. (The full cost-versus-harvest reports are Premium.)
What your garden saved you
Pickings add up at store prices.
From the garden to the table
Recipes, canning and storage for what you grew.
Hands-free
Log it with dirt on your hands
Two ways to log without typing, both free.
Say it New
Tap the mic and say "picked three zucchini from the west bed and watered the pots". Sow & Tell shows what it understood, and you tap Log it. Works in English and Spanish, using your phone's own speech recognition.
QR plant stakes New
Print tags for your plantings or big signs for your beds, with a QR code on each. Scan one in the garden to log a watering or a picking in one tap.
The guide
Look up anything in your yard
Written in plain words from university Extension and USDA sources. It's never locked.
541 plants, 6,500+ varieties
Vegetables, fruit and nuts, herbs, flowers and bulbs, yard trees, shrubs, native wildflowers, shade plants and houseplants, each with zones, sun, water, spacing, feeding and named varieties for your area. Browse the plant guide.
150+ pests, 130+ diseases, 140+ weeds
Each starts with prevention and hand work, then natural help, and lists sprays last by active ingredient with safety notes. Dangerous weeds are flagged.
46 good bugs
Lady beetles, lacewings, bees and other helpers, with a look at their young so you don't squash them, and plants that bring more in.
Dangerous look-alikes
Plants that are easy to mix up with something harmful, side by side, with the differences to check.
Soil & pH
What pH each crop likes and how to raise or lower yours, in plain steps.
Old-time remedies & plant uses
How plants were used in the past, from Native American, early American and old European traditions. History, not medical advice.
Gentlest step first
Every pest page starts with the mildest fix.
Know your garden friends
Helpful bugs get a green "don't spray it" banner.
Your whole yard
Filter by trees, shrubs, shade plants, deer resistance or pollinator plants.
Everyday
On your home screen, and safe if you change phones
Home screen widgets
See what needs water and what's ready to pick without opening the app. Three sizes.
Google backup
Sign in with Google to back up your garden, so a new phone picks up right where you left off.
English or Spanish
The whole app, guide included. Switch any time in Profile.
Home screen widgets
Water and harvest at a glance.
Want the app to do even more?
Frost alerts, photo ID, a weather diary, degree-day pest timing and more. Try Premium free for 14 days, no card.
App screens are previews with sample data.