Which week is going to flatten you, and what you can move
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The weeks ahead is a workload forecast for your own garden, reached from Calendar's Tasks view. It takes the plants you have, where they sit and when they went in, works out every job each one will need for the rest of its life, and stacks those into twelve weeks. The solid part of each bar is the work due that week; the faint part above it is work whose timing could still move into that week. Tap any bar to see what is in it, grouped by growing space. Near weeks show the jobs themselves; past about eight weeks out only the milestones are named, because the jobs around them move as the plants do. If no week stands out from the rest, it says so rather than inventing a warning.
What this screen is for
Every gardener has had the week where four things ripen, two need pruning and something needs repotting, all at once — and no way of having seen it coming. This screen exists for that. It takes what GardenTrack already knows about your garden and answers one question: which week is going to be heavy, and is there anything you can move now?
You will find it from Calendar — open Tasks and look for the link that says what the weeks ahead will cost.
Reading the chart
Twelve bars, one per week, starting with this one.
- The solid part is the work due in that week — each job counted once, in the earliest week it can happen.
- The faint part above it is work whose timing has not settled yet and could land in that week instead of another one.
Both parts are drawn to the same scale, so you can compare them. A bar that is mostly faint is not a busy week — it is an uncertain one, usually because a long window overlaps it.
Tap any bar and the week opens underneath, grouped by growing space.
Why it sometimes tells you nothing is coming
If no week ahead stands out, the screen says so plainly. That is a real answer. A warning that fires every time you open a screen is one you stop reading, and then it is not there on the week that actually matters.
Near weeks and far weeks
Close in, you see the jobs themselves. Further out, around two months, only the milestones are named — the stages a plant is expected to reach. The jobs around a milestone move as the plant does, so listing October’s watering in September would be a list of guesses printed with the same weight as tomorrow’s real ones.
What this screen does not do
It does not keep score. There is no progress bar, no percentage and no streak, because everything drawn here is work that has not happened yet. An unticked job is not a debt.
Common questions
- Why does it say about a date instead of a real one?
Because for most jobs we do not know the day, and saying one would be a guess dressed as a fact. A plant's stages are worked out from your frost dates and when it went in, and those come as a window rather than a day — so the app shows the window. Once you tell it your own date for something, or confirm you have seen a sign like the first true leaves, that job stops saying about and starts saying from.
- The first bar is always the tallest. Is that the busy week?
No, and the app will not call it one. The first bucket holds everything due now plus anything already overdue, so it is nearly always the biggest — that is the work you can already feel, and Today is the screen for it. The warning at the top only ever looks at the weeks ahead of this one.
- Why does one line say five plants instead of naming them?
Because five rows saying the same thing on the same day is noise. When the same job falls on the same plants at the same time in the same space, it becomes one line with a count, and tapping it opens that growing space.
- How accurate are the hours?
Treat them as a rough sense of scale, not a promise. The job counts come from your own plants and their real stages; the minutes attached to each job come from published extension time figures and one time study where we could find them — watering, scouting, transplanting, harvest, tomato pruning — and from our own estimates elsewhere, which is why they are shown as a range and labeled a rough estimate. If the hours matter to you, trust the number of jobs first.
- Nothing is showing beyond a few weeks. Is it broken?
Probably not. A plant only projects jobs for as long as it has a life ahead of it, so a garden of annuals late in the season genuinely thins out towards winter. If a plant cannot be projected at all, a line at the bottom of the screen says how many.
Shipped 2026-09-05. Last checked 2026-09-16. Something here wrong or out of date? Tell us — support docs going stale is a bug.