Fifteen views. All of it offline, all of it on your own machine.
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Plants, with real detail
Zones, season, sun, water, spacing, days to harvest, container fit, root depth,
difficulty, US nativity, deer rating — with companion guidance and plant families
throughout. Every safety or legal warning in the reference is carried, shown in
red on the plant it belongs to.
Checks that catch things
Keep-apart pairs and groups, same-family co-planting, rhizome runners, acid-soil
needs, Verticillium hosts after nightshades, walnut root zones, rotation intervals,
sun and zone fit, water mismatch, spacing overflow and physical overlap.
A calendar from your frost dates
Zone averages for zones 3–10, overridable with your own. It drives every sowing,
transplant, harvest and cover-crop window, with garlic special-cased and three
weeks added to fall sowings for shortening days.
Bed layouts you can drag
Grid or free placement with a snap toggle, drawn to scale, with printable plans.
On a phone you can pinch to zoom and move plants with a finger.
Harvest planning
Say how much you want — in pounds, servings or quart jars — and it works back to
plants, bed area, succession sowings and years to bearing. Backed by yield data for
343 food crops, each figure tagged as extension-published or estimated.
It reminds you to tend, not just to plant
The tending calendar: thin the carrots at two inches, harden off over the week
before the transplant date it computed, net the brassicas before the moth flight,
hill the potatoes twice. Dated, explained, checkable into the journal — so the
record writes itself. Plus a seed drawer with honest germination odds, rain logging
that resets the watering clocks, and soil and shading checks per bed.
A kitchen at the end of it
The app walked you from seed to storage and then handed you forty pounds of
tomatoes and no dinner. The Kitchen is 44 recipes keyed to the twenty most-grown
food crops — glut-first, searchable, filtered to the crop whose page you came from.
Fresh, freezer, dryer, ferments and refrigerator pickles only: shelf-stable canning
numbers belong to the tested sources (NCHFP, USDA), and this app states none of its own.
Putting up, and the Pantry
Stand at the counter with twelve pounds of beans and one screen lays out every
path, in honest order: eat it fresh (deadline attached), cure and store, freeze,
dry, ferment — each scaled to the pounds in front of you — and then the jars. It
plans the canning day in jars and lids, puts dated reminders on Today, and the
Pantry tracks what you put up, what is left, and honest shelf life. No process
figures, ever — times and pressures come from your tested source, and every
canning row says so.
A journal and a seed list
Notes, watering, rain, harvests and photos per bed. The seed & supply list
is built from what is actually planted, and exports as plain text or CSV. Share
cards render the bed plan, the year, a harvest or the pantry shelf to an image —
offline, in every tier.
