Four cut-paper raised beds that run through the seasons, from spring seedlings to a fall bed under frost cloth.

Garden Planner

GardenTrack plans the rest of your year, and tells you how much work it’ll be.

It picks what still finishes in each bed before frost and counts the work. One tap puts it all on your Calendar.

Free to start. No credit card required. On a free account you can open the Garden Planner on your own garden and look around, but nothing saves. Join the beta and it’s all open until July 13, 2027.

How much work is it?See both ways What do I need to buy?See the list

Here’s the same Denver backyard on Saturday, July 25: a salsa bed, a squash bed, a bean arch and a berry bed out back, and a pot of bush beans on the patio.Every screen here is the app on that garden. The saved Garden Plans went through the app’s own save, to show what comes after.

Saturday, July 25

It’s late July, and GardenTrack plans every bed out to frost.

Open the Garden Planner and it starts from your own beds and your own frost date. Here that’s 77 days, with frost about Oct 10.

Each bed gets crops that still finish in time, with the day to sow and about when picking starts. Up top, it adds up the work: 91 jobs, about 15 minutes to an hour and a half a week, and the busiest week, Aug 29. The first job is today, cucumbers along the bean arch, and they start picking about Oct 8, two days before frost.

The Garden Planner on July 25: 77 days to first frost, A bit of both picked, 91 jobs at about 15 minutes to an hour and a half a week, and the bean arch getting cucumbers and leaf lettuce

Same morning

GardenTrack can put more kinds in each bed, or give you less to do.

Pick Most plants, and each bed gets up to four different crops. Pick Least work, and each one gets a single crop. A bit of both sits in between.

Here, Most plants comes to 191 jobs and about 25 minutes to two and a half hours a week. Least work comes to 87 jobs and 10 minutes to an hour, and its busiest week is Aug 29 instead of Sep 12. Save both and Your Garden Plans lays them side by side, so you pick with the numbers in front of you.

Least work picked: 87 jobs, about 10 minutes to an hour a week, the busiest week Aug 29

Most plants picked: 191 jobs, about 25 minutes to two and a half hours a week, the busiest week Sep 12

Your Garden Plans comparing Least work with Most plants: 87 jobs against 191, the hours a week, the busiest week and the first job, the same cucumbers today for both

When you’ve picked

One tap, and GardenTrack puts all of it on your Calendar.

Before you tap, the button says how many plantings it’ll add. Then each one lands on your Calendar on its own day, and Today tells you when it’s time to put it in.

They go on as planned, drawn in outline on the Calendar until you say they’re in the ground. And if you change your mind right away, one Undo takes back the whole batch.

Planted for the rest of the year, with a link to the Calendar and an Undo for all of it

Saturday, October 3

A week before frost, GardenTrack lays out next year.

In the last three weeks before frost, the Garden Planner opens on next year. Save it, and its plantings go on your Calendar, and it becomes your Garden Plan, with each bed drawn and what goes in it.

Below the drawing, the season runs in order. Here that’s fall prep and garlic today, seeds indoors on Mar 9, planting out on May 15 and the first tomatoes about Jul 14. Under By fall, it lists what you’ll be picking, from lettuce and garlic to corn and peppers.

Your Garden Plan for next season: start seeds Mar 9, first tomatoes Jul 14, and the back yard drawn bed by bed with what goes in each

The season in order: fall prep today, start seeds Mar 9, sow in April, plant out May 15, first tomatoes Jul 14, first frost Oct 10, then what you’ll be picking by fall

Before spring

GardenTrack tells you what to buy, and when to buy it by.

What to buy turns your Garden Plan into a shopping list: how many plants of each, how many seed packets, and the day to have them by.

Here you’d order seeds by Feb 16, three weeks before the first sowing on Mar 9, and the first garlic goes in today. Some crops come as plants too. Flip one to Plants, and the line tells you when to plant them out instead. Then copy the list and take it to the store.

What to buy: order seeds by Feb 16, garlic to plant this week, then peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, corn, beans and cucumbers with how many packets and the day each one starts

From now to spring

GardenTrack says when each bed has to be ready.

By bed draws the year one bed at a time, with the day each bed needs to be ready by.

Garlic goes into the squash bed today, and into the bean arch on Oct 10, after the cucumbers finish at frost. The salsa bed needs to be ready by May 11 for its peppers and beans. At the busiest, the whole garden comes to about an hour and a half a week. When you like how it looks, there’s a card of it to share.

By bed: the squash bed ready today for garlic, the bean arch on Oct 10 after the cucumbers, the salsa bed by May 11 for peppers and beans, each drawn across the year

A card of next season’s garden to share: the beds drawn, start seeds Mar 9, first tomatoes Jul 14, and the crops

Everything else GardenTrack keeps track of.

Let GardenTrack lay out the rest of your year, and see what it’ll take.

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