GardenYou added plants on the website. Here is how they get into the app
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Every plant you add while reading is kept in that browser, on that device, and it is all listed at gardentrack.app/my-garden. At the bottom of that page is a button that opens the app with those plants in hand. The app then asks where you garden, works out your frost dates, and puts your plants in — you do not type any of them again.
You are reading about a plant, you decide you want it, and you tap Add to my garden. This is what happens next.
Where they are kept
In your browser, on the device you are reading on. No account, nothing sent to us. Every plant you add is listed on one page — your garden — with the day you added it and a link back to the plant itself.
That page also has an ✕ beside each one, because deciding against something is part of choosing.
Getting them into the app
At the bottom of that page is a button that opens the app carrying your plants. The app asks where you garden, works out your own frost dates from that, and then shows you your picks and asks where they live. You do not type any plant twice.
If your garden is already set up, there is no walkthrough at all — the plants are added alongside what you have and the app says which ones arrived.
Reading on one device, gardening with another
Use Copy the link and send it to yourself. The plants travel inside the link, in the part after the #, which browsers never send to a server — so the list stays between your two devices.
Why it needs a button at all
The website and the app sit at two different addresses, and browsers stop one address reading another's stored data. It is the same rule that stops any site reading your bank's page, and we would not want it otherwise. The consequence is that plants cannot quietly appear in the app; they have to be handed over, and handing them over is one tap.
Common questions
- Where do the plants go when I tap Add to my garden?
- Into your own browser, on the device you are reading on. Not to us — there is no account at that point and nothing is sent anywhere. That is why they are there when you come back to the site later on the same device, and why they are not there if you open the site on a different phone. The page that lists them is gardentrack.app/my-garden, and every plant on it links back to its own page.
- Why do I have to press a button? Why does the app not just have them?
- Because the website and the app are at two different addresses — gardentrack.app and app.gardentrack.app — and a browser deliberately keeps one address from reading another's storage. That rule is why a shopping site cannot read your bank's page, and it is a good rule. It also means the plants have to be carried across on purpose rather than found, and the button is that carrying.
- I read on my laptop but I garden with my phone. Now what?
- Use Copy the link on the same page, and send that link to yourself however you like — message, note, email. Opening it on your phone brings the same plants. The list of plants travels inside the link itself, in the part after the # that browsers never send to a server, so nobody sees it on the way, us included.
- What does the app do with them?
- It asks where you garden, in one question, and works your frost dates out from that. Then it shows you the plants you picked and asks one more thing — where they live, in your own words, like back bed or big pot. That is the whole setup. From there each plant has real dates against it and shows up on your list when it needs something.
- I already have a garden in the app. Will this mess it up?
- No. If your garden is already going, there is no walkthrough — the plants are simply added alongside what you have, and it tells you which ones arrived. Nothing already in your garden is touched or replaced.
- Does it remember which variety I picked?
- Yes, and that is rather the point. If you picked Cherokee Purple rather than just a tomato, the app keeps Cherokee Purple. It checks the name against its own records first — so a link that has been mangled in transit cannot invent a plant — and where it cannot confirm a variety it keeps the crop and drops the variety, rather than guessing.
- Can I take something off the list?
- Yes — there is an ✕ beside every plant on the my-garden page, and removing one there takes it out of the link too. Nothing is removed from the app that way; the page and the app are separate lists until you press the button.
Shipped 2026-08-13. Last checked 2026-08-13. Something here wrong or out of date? Tell us — support docs going stale is a bug.