Gardening Journal
Augustus Rutkoski Lifestyle iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Gardening Journal is a free Lifestyle app for iPhone and iPad by Augustus Rutkoski. Rated 5.0/5 from 3 ratings. Requires iOS 26.4.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 3 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 4 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 17
- 2026 · v1.5.2
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About Gardening Journal
Gardening Journal is a personal growing tracker built for serious home gardeners utilizing data to help improve your garden. Whether you tend a single raised bed or multiple garden spaces, it gives you a clear record of what you planted, how it performed, and what to grow next. TRACK YOUR PLANTINGS Log every variety you grow, which bed it's in, and when it went in the ground. Close a planting with an outcome — rate your harvest, tag what went wrong or right, and build a record that gets more useful every season. BEDS AND GARDEN MAPS Draw your garden to scale. Add rectangular beds, row plantings, or freeform shapes. See at a glance what's growing where, and tap any bed to jump straight to its plantings. JOURNAL ENTRIES Keep a running log for each planting — notes, watering, fertilizing, pest sightings, and milestones. Your garden history, all in one place. INSIGHTS See which varieties consistently perform well across seasons and beds. Unlock once to access the full insights dashboard and start learning from your own data. MULTIPLE GARDENS Tracking a backyard plot and a community garden? Unlock to manage as many garden spaces as you need. SYNCS ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Everything syncs privately through your iCloud account. Your data stays yours — no accounts, no ads, no tracking. WEATHER See a local forecast right in the app so you can plan your next garden session.
What’s new
Version 1.5.2 · Updated September 17, 2026
• See your plants on the garden map, sized to their real footprint • Plantings are now colored by crop • Neighboring beds show faintly around the bed you're viewing • Jump between beds with new previous/next buttons on the bed map • Add journal entries straight from the Activity Calendar • Beds sort naturally ("Bed 2" before "Bed 11") plus assorted map and calendar fixes • Cantaloupe added to the crop list
App privacy
The developer, Augustus Rutkoski, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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