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Overall, this app is totally useful and worth the $10. You can move things around too, and lock items that you want to stay in a specific place. In the end, like magic, after you tell them how many of each you want, they put everything in place in your garden plots (virtually of course) based on the size of your plots, companion planting, and other strategies.

But a nice feature is that it will tell you how many seeds you should plant per square foot and when. If you add something that’s not ideal for your growing climate, it will tell you but still allow you to add it to your garden. Once you’re done, it’ll give you a weekly task list of what seeds to start, what to transplant, and what to start outdoors. From there you can just start adding everything you want to plant, which contains all the information that you can find on the back of your seed packets. It starts off stronger than the first two by asking how many people are in your family that you plan to grow for, where you live, and your frost dates. Smart Gardener felt like a combination of the first two vegetable garden planning apps, and for a $10 quarterly cost. The interface was easy to use for the most part, but it’s only available on desktop. This is what I was able to do in about 15 minutes to try and mimic the drawing I came up with for our new garden. In terms of organizing real plants you want to grow, the selection is very limited, so this isn’t a true vegetable garden planner app, but could be useful when renovating an existing garden or building out a new one. Gardena is another app, which I might have found particularly helpful when I was designing my new garden layout. The most helpful feature in this vegetable garden planner app was a somewhat visual representation of my garden, and the chart it created to tell me when to plant everything.

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The free version is very simple in its implementation.

Based on your information that you give it about the amount of sunlight the bed gets, and how deep your soil is, and your planting zone, it will help you choose the best vegetables to plant. Garden Manager is a web app that allows you to visually create your beds, then say what you want to plant per square foot. However, I was able to dig up a few that are generally useful and a couple that appear to be the best in class.

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The truth is, garden planning apps are hard to come by, and interfaces on them are often clunky and feel a little bit like time warp back to Windows 95. But they’re certainly not first to market, and they’re also not available yet to the masses, so I figured why not put together a list of all the great vegetable garden planner apps available so you can pick and choose which ones work best for you? It’s not yet available to the public, but it allows you to input everything you want to plant, and it will tell you when to germinate, when to plant, when to harvest, etc. The first one I found was a recent crowdfunding project, and I was able to get into the demo, called Seedtime. Usually I know where everything goes, and this year I’ll have more room, different planting conditions, two new trellises, and just a whole lot more veggies I’ve never tried to grow before. It’s definitely a little overwhelming, because my garden soil has always been so, so good to me I could probably grow a lemon tree from seed in New England.Īll of this led me to look for vegetable garden planner apps that I could use now that I’m more or less starting from scratch. This year I’m doing a garden renovation, which I plan to share in a future post, so it hit me even harder this year, where I’ll have a lot more room to plant, some new raised beds, and a whole feast of things to overcome, like new dirt and possible introduction of disease from the garden soil and compost we’re bringing in. Why does it always seem like you spend all winter waiting, wishing, and hoping for spring, then when it arrives, your brain goes into panic mode, and suddenly you have no idea what’s going to go where, or how many of what you’re going to plant? Just me? That’s fine, that’s fine.

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