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Gardens & beds

Map out your space, draw beds, place plants — the layout that drives every schedule.

A garden is a physical space — your backyard, the front patio, a community plot. Inside it you draw beds (rectangles or polygons on a satellite map) and pots (single points with a diameter).

Plants live in beds as placements — "3 tomatoes in Bed #1". Each placement gets its own schedule based on the plant's timing and your frost dates.

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    Create a garden

    From Gardens, tap + New garden, give it a name ("Backyard beds"), and pin it on the map so the satellite view zooms to the right place.

    You can add as many gardens as you want — front yard, back yard, the rooftop, a parent's house — and the schedule treats each independently.

    Gardens list with two named gardens
    Gardens list — one card per garden.
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    Draw beds on the map

    Tap your garden, then + Bed to draw a polygon directly on the satellite. The app calculates real-world dimensions in feet from the polygon shape.

    For pots, switch to the Pot tool and drop a point with a diameter. Pots show as colored circles on the map.

    Map editor with a bed polygon being drawn
    Drawing a bed on the satellite map.
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    Bed detail

    Tap any bed to see its size in feet, list of plants, and edit options. Bed sizes display as feet (e.g. 4′ × 8′) when ≥12 inches, inches otherwise.

    Edit width, length, name, or kind from this screen. Pots show diameter and depth instead.

    Bed detail with size, dimensions, and plant list
    Bed detail — size in feet, plant list, edit fields.
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    Layout editor

    Open a bed and tap Layout to enter the grid editor. Drag plant tiles to position them inside the bed; the editor enforces real spacing based on each plant's spacing requirement.

    Pinch to zoom on web (trackpad two-finger pinch in Safari). Tap the X badge on a tile to remove that placement.

    Layout editor with several plants positioned in a 4x8 bed
    Layout editor — drag tiles to position plants.
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    Add plants to a bed

    From a bed, tap + Plant, pick a variety from your library, set quantity and any notes, and confirm. The schedule updates immediately.

    Want to plant the same crop several times across the season? Toggle Succession in the Add Plant sheet — the app creates linked placements with staggered start dates (e.g. four weeks apart).

    Add Plant sheet with quantity, succession toggle, and confirm button
    Adding a plant — succession toggle on the right.

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