
The Garden Planner contains full guides to over 250 plants and descriptions of thousands of specific varieties. Stuck for ideas? You have access to hundreds of garden layouts from fellow gardeners. Garden website GrowVeg has a planner where can draw out your vegetable beds, add plants, and then move them around to get the perfect layout. Dale and Carrie also maintain a channel. Learn more at, , and Seed to Spoon’s Facebook page.

The app also includes companion planting guides, recipes, and organic pest treatments, and beneficial insect guides. Location, taking the guesswork out of when to plant seeds. It then offers up ideal planting dates based on your GPS The free app lets users view plants by their health benefit bone and joint health, brain and memory, etc. Said Dale: “Since then, more than half a million people have used our app to determine ideal planting dates for their region and have logged more than 1.5 million plants.” The app has evolved continuously since first released in 2018, from pages of helpful-but-dry text to graphically-rich, directive hints and tips. “So Dale said ‘Why don’t we just create our own?' And that’s what we did.” “We couldn’t find any that were great for us to use,” Carrie said, on a recent podcast. The app was created by Dale and Carrie Spoonemore who started converting their urban lawn into a food farm in 2015.Īs garden planning became more complicated, the Spoonemores looked with little success to help out.

One of the newest, From Seed to Spoon, was just acquired by gardening retailer Park Seed. Many are fee, some you have to pay for, and nearly all require you to register or subscribe in some fashion. It’s a mess.įortunately, companies are embracing all that technology offers and are producing apps for use on your phone, computer, or tablet. Some even write down planting and harvest dates.īecause “no plan survives first contact with the enemy,” a lot of cross-outs and substitutions muddy things. Often this document has lines and arrows pointing to specific plots or rows, along with notes on the seed or cultivar being planted.

Every year about this time, gardeners get the itch to do something- anything-related to gardening and begin sketching out how their summer garden will look.
