Patchwise: Garden Planner

Know what your vegetable garden needs now.

Patchwise is a planting calendar and garden planner matched to your climate and season. Get a practical list of what to sow, plant, feed, protect and pick - plus care guides for 280+ edible plants.

No account or ads. Core planning works offline; purchases require internet.

Enter your ZIP code and Patchwise tunes itself to your garden. It understands USDA hardiness zones, local frost windows, heat and northern-hemisphere seasons, so advice for Portland is never advice for Miami.

WHAT TO DO NOW

• A two-week list of the garden jobs that matter now
• A local seed sowing and planting calendar for your climate
• Frost windows and seasonal guidance for your USDA zone
• Clear reminders of what is coming up next month

CARE FOR 280+ EDIBLE PLANTS

Browse vegetables, herbs, fruit trees, berries and vines. Every plant guide brings practical information together in plain English:

• Seed depth, spacing, watering and feeding
• Pruning, protection and harvest guidance
• Named varieties and familiar names such as zucchini and cilantro
• Companion planting: what helps and what to keep apart
• Pest and disease signs with organic-first controls

PLAN YOUR WHOLE GARDEN

Give your beds and containers a name, then group plantings and jobs by location. Keep overdue, today's and upcoming tasks together, with a completion you can undo.

Choose your own one-off tasks or finite care routines. Repeat every few days or weeks, end on a date, after a chosen number of occurrences or at season's end. Edit, pause or remove a routine; only its next pending job appears. Suggested care is optional.

Record each picking in grams, kilograms or whole-item counts. Edit dates and notes, compare all-time and local seasonal totals, and browse earlier seasons. Weights combine; counted items stay separate.

Save favorite plants and combine search with type, plant-now, climate and container filters. Read the guide's container conditions and check your own frost and growing conditions. The seed box helps you use older packets first.

WORKS IN THE BACKYARD

The full plant library and its photos live on your phone. Patchwise works in the shed, community garden or beyond reception without loading spinners. There is no sign-up, email address or Patchwise server.

YOUR GARDEN STAYS YOURS

Garden records stay on your device, with exports and Android backups under your control. There are no ads or garden-activity analytics. Google Play and RevenueCat process purchases and purchase analytics. Save a backup to a chosen folder or share a portable file with photos, country, beds, harvests and routines. Restore supports older backups. Folder saves are verified; closing a share sheet does not confirm a save.

PATCHWISE PLUS

Plus is an optional one-time lifetime purchase, with no recurring charges. It adds:

• Reminders on the days and at the time you choose
• A photo journal for every planting
• Plant stories that gather your season into one timeline
• PDF export for printing or sharing

Garden planning, beds and containers, harvest records, favorites, tasks and care routines, the plant library, local calendar, unlimited plantings, seed box, backup and restore remain available without Plus.

Patchwise was built by a gardener who wanted one calm, private answer to a practical question: what does my garden need now?

Questions or suggestions: [email protected]

Guidance, not gospel - always check your own conditions before planting.

Example screenshots show a fictional garden. Photos (resized): tomato by Softeis; mint by Simon Eugster. CC BY-SA 3.0.
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