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Chatbots answer gardening questions. GardenTrack answers questions about your garden.

ChatGPT’s great — but it doesn’t remember your garden. Rafe, the assistant inside GardenTrack, already knows your beds, your plants and what you logged last week, so you can just ask him, or tell him what you’ve been up to.

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What should I do today?See Tuesday morning Something look wrong?See the yellow leaves

Here’s one Denver backyard on one Tuesday in October: a salsa bed, a salad bed, a little orchard and three pots on a covered porch.Every screenshot is from the app, and every reply from Rafe is a real one, recorded on October 6 and 8, 2026.

Tuesday · 8:30 AM

Ask what needs doing today, and you can tick most of it off right there in the chat.

Rafe answers with your own jobs for the day, and the ones you can do on the spot have a box to tick when they’re done.

It’s the top of the same list you’d see on Today, in the same order. This morning that’s netting the peaches in the orchard, watering two spots with six plants between them, and checking whether the spinach has come up in the salad bed. Across the top, each place with something to do today shows a count.

Asking Rafe what to do today: Nothing urgent today, then three jobs, Net the peaches, Water two spaces and Any spinach sprouts?, the last two with a box to tick

Tuesday · 8:45 AM

Tell GardenTrack what you did, and it writes it down for you.

Say you watered the salsa bed this morning, and GardenTrack logs it for today and shows you exactly what it wrote, with an Undo right under it.

There’s no form to fill in, because the watering goes straight in your journal with today’s date, and GardenTrack counts it the next time it works out what needs water. If Rafe got it wrong, one tap on Undo takes it back out.

Telling Rafe the salsa bed was watered this morning, and the receipt under it: Done, Watered Salsa bed, and an Undo button

Tuesday · 12:30 PM

When something looks wrong, you get a straight answer first.

Ask whether to worry about yellow leaves on your Sungolds, and Rafe starts with a verdict, then what’s likely going on, what to check and what to do.

He knows the Sungolds are in the salsa bed, so he draws the bed with them circled. The card’s verdict is one of three, Probably fine, Worth a look or Act today, so you know right away how much it matters. If you’ve told Rafe you never spray, he’s told to leave sprays out of what to do. And underneath, you can ask him to explain more, or to teach you about the plant or the problem.

Rafe’s answer about yellow Sungold leaves: the salsa bed drawn with the three Sungolds circled, then Probably fine, and what’s likely, what to check and what to do

Tuesday · 4:30 PM

Say what you planted, and it shows up in your garden.

Tell Rafe you just put ten garlic cloves in the salad bed, and GardenTrack adds them to the Salad bed, planted today.

The card under the reply shows what changed, ten garlic in the Salad bed, and everything Rafe filled in has a pencil next to it so you can fix it. If you meant a different bed, Undo takes the whole thing back. Deleting a plant works differently, because that can’t be undone, so Rafe shows you what he’d delete and waits for your tap.

Telling Rafe ten garlic cloves went in the salad bed: the Salad bed drawn with the new garlic row, then the receipt, Garlic, new, ten in the Salad bed, planted today, with Undo

Tuesday · 5:45 PM

Send a photo of the leaf you’re worried about, and GardenTrack takes a look.

Snap the spotted leaf and send it, and here Rafe came back with the same kind of card: how worried to be, what it probably is, and what to do about it.

Tap the plus by the message box to take a photo or pick one you already have, and you can send up to four at once. If your hands are full of weeds, say it instead, in browsers that can turn speech into text. Tap the mic and talk. It keeps listening through your pauses until you tap send or stop.

A photo of a spotted tomato leaf sent to Rafe, and the answer: Worth a look, likely early blight, what to check and what to do — Leaf photo: Dwight Sipler, CC BY 2.0

Tuesday · 7:30 PM

Rafe watches the forecast, so you don’t have to ask if it’ll freeze.

Turn on frost alerts, and Rafe warns you at 6 in the evening on any freezing night that’ll hurt something you’ve got planted. Ask him anyway, and he answers from the same forecast.

Today flags those nights too, up to a week out. On the night itself, Rafe names the plants at risk and asks what you did: covered them, picked what was on them, or left them. Hardy plants don’t set it off, so a cold night that only touches your garlic stays quiet. This Tuesday nothing was coming. The orange on the porch can stay out until a night drops under 50°F, and Rafe knew that.

Asking Rafe whether it’s going to freeze this week, and his answer: no, the coldest night coming up is 50°F, so the orange pot can stay out

Everything else GardenTrack keeps track of.

Ask about your own beds and plants, and get an answer that’s about them.

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