Frost Guard
A heads-up the evening before frost or a heat wave, naming the plants in your garden to cover or shade, from the forecast for your ZIP code and each plant's frost tolerance.
PREMIUM
For gardeners who want the app to do more.
Premium watches the weather and the pests for you, learns how your own yard really runs, and keeps everything from seed packets to jars of salsa. Try it free for 14 days. No card, and nothing to cancel.
- 14-day free trial, no card
- 2 Garden Detective photos in the trial
- Keep everything you logged if it ends
Protect
Warnings before trouble, not after
Premium keeps an eye on the forecast and your own yard's weather, and tells you what to do while there's still time.
Smart rain skip
When real rain falls on your garden, watering moves itself back. No more watering a soaked bed.
Pest Watch, timed by degree days New
A nudge when pests usually show up, only for crops you grow. For 40 pests it counts growing degree days from your own yard's temperatures, the way university pest programs predict when eggs hatch and adults fly.
Plan
A plan that fits your yard
Garden planner
Sketch every bed on a grid of one-foot squares, so you can see what goes where before you plant. Repeat sowing reminders tell you when to sow lettuce, beans or radishes again for a steady harvest.
Your garden's own calendar New
After two plantings of a crop, your real picking dates teach the calendar how your yard runs, so harvest windows and reminders shift to match. Your weather diary's frost nights give your own frost dates, too.
Winter garden
From first fall frost to last spring frost: a seed-starting countdown for your plants, winter jobs for your zone, winter sowing, growing indoors, overwintering and dormant pruning.
Moon planting calendar
The old-time moon planting days, for gardeners who like tradition. Clearly marked as folklore, not science.
Bed layouts
Square by square, to scale.
Winter garden
Something to do all winter.
Know your garden
Find out why things happen
Garden Detective photo ID
Snap a plant, weed, bug or sick leaf and get its name, from databases of 35,000+ plants and 14,000+ insects, then open the matching page in the guide. About 30 photos a month.
Weather diary New
Every day's high, low and rain kept for your garden. Each planting shows the weather it lived through, in plain words: frost nights, heat waves, dry spells. Lost a crop? See the two weeks before it, and patterns across years.
Seed-saving guard New
Before you save seed, it warns when two plantings could have crossed, like zucchini and a pumpkin of the same species. Then it follows your saved seed through the generations: "from Grandma's beans, 3rd generation".
Soil Notes
Log your soil test results and see how each bed fits the crops you grow, with Extension pH and nutrient ranges.
Garden Detective
From a photo to the right page in the guide.
Keep
Keep the whole season
Seed Vault
Your seed packets, how many seeds are left, which are getting too old to sprout, seeds you saved, a wish list, and germination tests.
Pantry
Log what you canned, froze, dried or pickled, with jar counts and use-by reminders.
Sprout Story
Snap the same spot each week, lined up with a see-through copy of last week's photo, and watch your bed grow in a time-lapse.
Season recap and money reports
Your year in the garden: what grew best, what you picked and what it was worth. Plus cost against harvest for each crop and bed, and tips to save.
Garden Yearbook
A printable keepsake of the season, with your photos, notes, harvest totals and best crops.
Seasonal widgets and app icons
Spring blooms, summer sun, autumn leaves and winter snow on your home screen widgets, and an app icon for each season that you switch with one tap.
Garden money reports
What the garden cost against what it gave back.
Share
Garden together, and get away
Family sharing
Share one garden between phones. Everyone sees the same beds, and the water log shows who watered and when.
House-sitter mode New
Going away? Print a care sheet with what to water, when, and what to pick. Or give your sitter a code that lets them see your beds and tap Watered until the day you're back. It stops working on its own.
Calendar sync and spreadsheet export
Put planting, watering and harvest dates on your phone's calendar, and get your whole garden on one spreadsheet to print or keep.
Your Premium tour New
When Premium opens, a short tour helps you try the best parts first, with "Show me" on each one.
Trial & promises
Try it with nothing to lose
Start the free trial from inside the app. When 14 days are up it simply goes back to Free unless you choose to subscribe. Prices are shown in Google Play.
- The guide is never locked.
- No ads, free or Premium.
- The trial needs no card, so there's no surprise charge.
- If Premium ends, everything you logged stays yours to see and export.
- "Start free" is always the first button.
Not sure yet?
Everything on the free page stays free, with unlimited beds and plantings.
Photo in the Garden Detective example: squash bugs by Ilona Loser, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. App screens are previews with sample data.
