Journal

GardenTrack keeps a journal of your garden as you go, so next spring you’ll know what worked.

What you water, pick and photograph goes in the journal with its date. When a plant’s done, you say how it went, and next year GardenTrack shows you what you said.

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What gets written down?See August What happens next year?See next May

Here’s one Denver backyard and a pot of bush beans, followed from May into the next spring.The bean photos are from a real garden. The pickings, waterings and end-of-season note were added to show a whole summer, and the November and next-May screens are the app with its clock moved ahead.

Saturday, August 22

Every time you tap Watered or take a photo, GardenTrack writes it in the journal.

Each one goes in with the date, and the newest week’s on top.

The waterings fold into one line that says “and 8 waterings,” so a summer of hose duty doesn’t bury the day you picked your beans. Looking for something? Type beans July in the search, and it’s all there.

Your journal in late August: a photo from May up top, then this week and last week, each with its bean pickings listed and the waterings folded into one line

Since May 18

Each plant gets its own story, from the day it went in.

Open a plant and its story shows each big moment as a chapter, with the day count and the photo you took that week.

Up top, one line says how it ran against a typical plant of its kind. These beans came up about on time, flowered 14 days late and got picked three days late, which is worth knowing before you plant them again.

The bush beans’ story: planted, came up about on time, growing, flowered 14 days late, first harvest and biggest picking, each with its day count, most with a photo

Tuesday, September 15

When a plant’s done, you tell GardenTrack how it went.

Open the plant’s ⋯ menu, tap Say it is done, and pick Harvested out, It died or Pulled it out. The plant drops off Today, and its whole story stays.

Then GardenTrack asks if you’d grow it again, and if there’s anything to remember. Say yes, and add a note while it’s fresh, like pick every other day in late July or they go tough.

How it ended, open over the bush beans’ page: When it is over, say so, it drops off Today and keeps its story, with Harvested out, It died and Pulled it out

November

Come November, GardenTrack reads the whole season back to you.

Tap This season in the journal and the year’s on one page: your first harvest, how much you picked, the days you logged something, your photos and anything you lost.

Below that are the moments worth keeping, like the first picking and the biggest one. In your first season there’s no last year yet, so it doesn’t make one up. From your second year on, it sets this year beside last year’s.

2026 in your garden: the first harvest up top, then the harvests, the days with an entry, the photos and the setbacks, and the moments of the year

The next May

Next spring, GardenTrack tells you what you said last year.

Plant bush beans again, and their Story tab shows what you said in September: grow it again, and pick every other day in late July.

Swipe the photo at the top of the journal and there’s one from a year ago this week: the beans going into that same pot. On the plant’s page, This week, last year shows what last year’s beans were up to around now, with a photo where there is one.

In a pot · day 3

Bush beans

Last year you said: grow it again — “Pick every other day in late July or they go tough.”

Your Bush Bean in the Bean pot

Your journal the next May, swiped to a photo from a year ago: the bush beans the day they were planted in their pot

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