A top-down cut-paper yard with raised beds, pots on a patio, a greenhouse and a fruit tree, each with a small paper tag.

Your garden

GardenTrack knows where every plant in your garden lives.

Set up your beds and pots once, and GardenTrack keeps each plant where it lives. Measure a bed, and it shows you what else would fit.

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Where’s everything?See the backyard What else fits?See the squash bed

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 berry bed, the peppers and basil, the planned lettuce, the zones and the sizes were added to show a whole garden.

Saturday, July 25

GardenTrack sorts your garden by where things grow.

Open the Garden tab and your beds and pots sit under the parts of the yard they’re in, like Back yard and Patio, each with how many plants it holds. A pot with one plant in it opens straight to that plant.

Up top, a strip says what today wants: here that’s one round of watering, two other jobs and 77 days to frost. Tap one of those and the cards below narrow to just the plants it’s about.

The Garden tab: today’s strip with one round of watering, two jobs and the days to frost, then the Patio with its pot of bush beans and the Back yard with the bean arch, berry bed, salsa bed and squash bed, each with its size and plant count

Same morning

Give your yard a size, and GardenTrack draws it to scale.

Tap map at the top, and GardenTrack draws each part of your yard where it stands. Open one, and its beds are drawn in their spots.

Pick a size, like 50 by 80 feet, then tap Arrange zones and drag each one to where it really is. Anything you haven’t placed yet is drawn dashed, and anything without a size is drawn paler, so you can see what’s left to fill in.

The garden map: the Back yard and Patio drawn where they stand in a 50 by 80 foot yard

The salsa bed

Open a bed, and GardenTrack draws each plant where it stands.

On a bed you’ve measured, each plant gets the room its crop needs. The bottom edge is the front, where you stand.

When two plants side by side help or bother each other, GardenTrack draws a line between them and says how sure that is, from a field test down to an old garden habit. Here, basil next to the tomato has a field test behind it: it can cut down on thrips.

The salsa bed drawn from above: the Green Zebra tomato, two bell peppers and basil where they stand, then why basil helps the tomato and the peppers

Any day

GardenTrack asks four quick questions to add a plant.

What is it, how did it start, where is it, and when was it planted. You can fix any of it later.

Not sure what it is? Snap a photo and GardenTrack takes a look, or photograph a few nursery tags at once and it reads them. A free account can read two tag photos, and a photo look counts as one of its free Talk messages. Typing it in always works.

Add a plant: What is it?, with a way to photograph it or its labels and the crops ready to plant this week, then How did it start? and Where is it?

An empty bed

GardenTrack has ten ready-made beds to start an empty one from.

Like a salsa bed, a salad bed or a bed for the bees. Each one says what it’s for and what goes in it.

Open one from your own bed and tap its plants to add them, one at a time. Nothing is saved until you do, so you only take what you want, and if the bed has a size, GardenTrack shows the ones that still go in today.

Ready-made beds: a salsa bed and a salad bed, each with a picture and what it’s for

The squash bed

GardenTrack tells you what else would fit in a bed.

Under each bed you’ve measured, GardenTrack works out the room that’s left and what could still go in before your frost.

In the squash bed there’s about 28 square feet free, and mizuna has 64 days to spare before frost. It also names what goes well with what’s already there, like carrots beside the lettuce, and leaves out anything that would clash.

What else would fit in the squash bed: about 28 square feet free, mizuna with time to spare, then carrots as something that goes well beside the lettuce

Everything else GardenTrack keeps track of.

Set up your own beds and pots, and see what else would fit.

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Free to start. No credit card required.