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Plan Your Garden

Beds, square-foot planting, harvests

Lay out your beds once, then plant square by square — the app knows 16 carrots or 1 tomato fit per square foot and draws them on your bed so you can see the whole garden at a glance.

Set up your beds

  1. 1Open Garden from the home screen and tap + Add bed.
  2. 2Name it, set the size (a classic 4×8 raised bed, a circle, whatever you have) and save.
  3. 3Beds appear on the planner — tap ✏️ Edit layout to drag them around to match your real garden.
Your beds, arranged like the real garden.
Your beds, arranged like the real garden.

Plant square by square

  1. 1Tap a bed — it opens with a grid of 1-foot squares.
  2. 2Tap ➕ New planting on the grid, then tap the squares you're planting.
  3. 3Pick the crop. The app fills in days-to-maturity and shows how many plants fit — 16 carrots per square, 4 lettuce, 1 tomato.
  4. 4Save. The squares show your crop at its real density.
Carrots at 16 per square, lettuce at its spacing — the bed at a glance.
Carrots at 16 per square, lettuce at its spacing — the bed at a glance.
Pick a crop; spacing, timing, and plant counts fill in automatically.
Pick a crop; spacing, timing, and plant counts fill in automatically.

Working the garden

Tap any planted square to see that planting — days in the ground, estimated harvest, and a + Harvestbutton when picking starts. Done or failed plantings free their squares automatically, and (with Plus) you can plan the next crop into the same squares before the current one finishes — radishes in April, carrots in June.

Tap a square: the planting, its timeline, and harvest logging.
Tap a square: the planting, its timeline, and harvest logging.

The garden to-do on the main Garden page tells you when to water, when frost threatens, and when planting windows open for your area.

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