What shipped
Newest first. Short entries — what you can now do, and whether it fully works yet. The longer stories about how any of it went live on the blog, and the how-does-this-work pages are in help.
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Starting over clears your saved plans too
Restart my garden used to leave your saved plans, garden walks and garden zones behind. A fresh garden could even get its old crops back in next season's draft. Restart now deletes them with everything else, and the warning counts your saved plans before you confirm.
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The walk letter’s jobs tick off right there
A job in your walk letter now has a box beside it. Tick it and it is done: Today shows it under Done today, and your journal records it. Untick it and it is open again. Add to today is still there for a job you want to do later, and a job you already added is the same job, so ticking it never makes a second.
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The privacy page names every service we use
The privacy page called its list of companies the whole list, and it was missing three. Telegram sees the email of a new account and anything sent through the feedback box, because that is how we hear about them. The National Weather Service gets your garden's spot on the map for the forecast, and the US Census Bureau turns a typed address into one. All three are named now, and the page no longer talks about using the app signed out, which stopped being possible in September.
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The walk asks: can we quote you?
On the Celebrate card of your walk there is now a small link, Can we quote you? It opens a sheet for a sentence or two in your own words. Nothing is shared unless you tick the box, and Not now closes it. What you sent is listed on Your account, with Withdraw to take it back.
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A finished walk opens as a deck of moments
When your garden walk is read, you now swipe through one card for each thing it found: what to celebrate, what is on track, what is behind, what held steady, and what we could not tell. Each card shows this walk's photo with last walk's beside it. The cards end on your letter, and you can skip straight to it any time.
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Your walk report now opens like a letter
The report from your garden walk now has its own paper, a title and the date of the walk. Under it, each stop gets one line with its plant and one word, like Fruit set, Ready Oct 17–21 or Holding. Stops that held steady fold into one line when there are more than three.
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The garden walk starts with one tap
The garden walk now opens on your spaces with every one ticked, so most walks start with a single tap on Start. Untick what you will skip, or tap Needs a look to keep only the spaces that need one. At each stop, last week's photo is already faded over your camera, so you can line up the same view, and Skip moves you on.
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The garden walk says what to do, in fewer words
Each step of the garden walk is now a title, one short line and its buttons. Your first spot reads Photograph the whole space, and a spot you have walked before reads Last time, with the day, so you can line it up. Errors and empty screens are one line too. With no signal the walk still says your photos are saved on your phone.
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The garden walk warns when frost comes first
If a frost-tender plant, such as beans or cucumbers, will not be ready before your first fall frost, the walk now says so. It shows a Frost first card: Frost may come first, with the day, so you can cover it or pick early. The letter marks the stop Frost first and counts it as one to check. Couldn’t tell stops are no longer counted as fine.
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What to buy counts packets for five more crops
Onions, kale, watermelon, okra and broccoli now say how many seed packets to get, not just how many plants. Each count comes from the smallest packet two seed companies sell and how thick a university extension guide says to sow. Broccoli, for one: three seeds for each plant you keep, so a dozen plants is one packet. Potatoes still show plants. They go in as seed potatoes, sold by the pound.
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Your garden is one map you zoom
The map on the Garden screen now has three stops: your yard, a zone and a bed. It opens on a zone with its beds to scale and each plant a dot in its own color. Tap a bed to go in, pinch out to see the whole yard, and Back zooms out again. A bed's page, a plant's page, the Garden Planner and Rafe's chat all open the map right at that bed, and Why here? on a bed's card goes back to that bed's plan.
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A new bed on lawn says when to start clearing it
Plan a new in-ground bed where the lawn is now, and the Garden Planner used to say only "If the lawn is cleared first." Now it says how, and by when: "Lay cardboard on the lawn by Oct 29", a dark tarp, clear plastic in summer heat, or cutting the sod a week before you plant. It picks the least work that still has the bed ready for its first planting, using the times university extension guides give. Once you save, the date stays on your plan's By bed view, ahead of the day to build the bed. A raised bed on lawn skips all of it, because its soil goes on top.
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Saying yes to a new plan no longer doubles your beds
If setup or the Garden Planner had already saved a plan for next season, saying yes to a changed one added every plant again, so a bed of 17 read 34. Now the new plan replaces the earlier plan's plants that are still only planned. Anything you have logged on stays, and Undo puts the earlier plan back.
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A plant added without a date no longer says "Planted today"
When a plant came in with no planting day, from setup or from Rafe when you did not say one, its story opened with "Planted" and the day you added it. So a tomato in since May said it went in this week, and logging that it came up last month was refused. Now that first line says Added to your garden, and nothing reads it as the day it was planted.
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Make it better: two ways to grow more next season
The Garden Planner has a new door for next season, Make it better, for when you just want more. It lays out two versions side by side. More ground adds one new 4 × 8 ft bed of crops you don’t grow yet, with the soil it takes and when to buy it. More from your beds puts a second crop in a bed after the first one comes out. Pick one, check it on Your season, and say yes. Undo takes it back.
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Next season opens on the plan you already saved
If setup or the Garden Planner already saved a plan for next season, opening the Garden Planner on next season used to draft a new one over it, with crops you never picked. Now it opens on your saved plan, drawn just as you saved it, and Change one spot and Tell Rafe work on that plan.
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Finished setup without saving? Your answers are kept
If you finish setup without saving it, the sign-in page now says your answers are kept on this phone, with a Back to my plan button that takes you to your plan and its save step.
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Setup no longer guesses when you planted
If you told setup a plant was already growing, it used to save it as planted that day, so a tomato in since May read like a seedling. Now it saves no planting date at all, and Today asks when it went in. Answer it, or tap Don’t know.
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Today says Walk day on your garden days
When a week or more has passed since your last garden walk, Today now says Walk day on your garden days, with how many places and about how long, and one tap starts the walk. It shows only after your first walk, and only on the days you picked under When do you garden?
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Today says when to build a new bed
A new bed in your plan said "Build by Apr 29" on your saved plan's By bed view, and nowhere else. Now Today shows "Build Bed 2 by Apr 29" two weeks ahead, with its size and, for a single new raised bed, about how many bags of soil. Tick Built and the bed keeps the record. A bed going on lawn waits until the lawn job is done.
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Today says when to start clearing the lawn
A new in-ground bed on lawn already showed "Lay cardboard on the lawn by Oct 29" in the Garden Planner. Now Today shows it too, two weeks ahead, with the bed it is for. Tick Cardboard down and the bed keeps the record. Miss the date and the card moves to the next way that still has the bed ready in time.
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Today says when to order seeds
Your saved plan and What to buy said "Order seeds by Feb 18", but Today never did, so a winter of planning ended with seeds ordered late. Now Today shows the card two weeks ahead, with the crops it's for, See the list, and Ordered. Tick Ordered and each of those plants' stories says Seeds ordered.
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A dashed plant is a plan until you say it's here
On a bed drawing, a plant with a dashed edge is now a plan: where it was put, not yet where you said it stands. Tap it while arranging, tap It's here, and it turns solid. With two or more dashed in one bed, All here does them all at once. Only your tap makes a plant solid. A drag, Space them for me, or logging that you planted it does not. Plants already in your beds start dashed until you say where they stand.
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A potted tree keeps its pot to itself
The Garden Planner was treating a potted tree like one small plant, so it saw room left in the pot and planned garlic around the trunk. Now a pot holding a tree or a plant that stays put year to year counts as full, and the Garden Planner leaves it alone.
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Garlic on the shopping list says both days
Plan garlic in two beds that go in on different days, and What to buy used to give both the first day. Now the garlic row says the whole stretch, like plant Sep 25 to Oct 9, and it is still due by the first day, when the cloves need to be in hand.
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Hot spells are told three days ahead
A hot spell now reaches you about three days before it starts, not only the evening before. With notifications on, you get one alert two or three days out that names the day and how hot it gets, so there is time to get shade ready or find a shady spot for your pots. The evening-before alert still comes, and that is all for that spell: it used to come back every evening the heat lasted, and now it waits until the heat breaks. On Today, the warning under the temperature shows each morning from three days out and on the first hot day. Before this, it could show once nearly a week early and then not at all on the hot days themselves.
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Next season opens already drafted
Open the Garden Planner on next season and it starts from a draft of this one. Kept as is names the beds, pots and trees the draft leaves alone, and the season drawn below says Kept as is under each of them, where it used to say Nothing planned here yet. Worth a look lists the jobs your garden already has before next season starts, with their dates: a winter prune, a leaf curl spray, a potted orange to bring in when a night is forecast under 50°F. Change one spot lets you pick one bed or pot and say what goes in it instead, and Your season says when it goes in.
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Next season says how much of last season you logged
When the Garden Planner drafts next season from last season’s plan, it now says how much of that plan you logged. Under Logged on last season’s plan, it counts the crops you logged going in, starting indoors and picking, out of how many the plan held. A step you didn’t log just isn’t counted. It’s never called late.
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Next season's draft reads your recap
If you did a season recap, the Garden Planner now uses it when it drafts next season. A crop you marked Grow again comes back into the draft, and a crop you marked Not again stays out. Your own notes for next year show word for word at the top, under Your notes for next year, so they are there when you plan.
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Rows go where they belong, and "no room" says why
Once you have marked which side of a bed faces north, a row crop you add goes where its height belongs: tall rows like peas toward the north side, so they do not shade the rest. Each new row now goes right beside the last instead of leaving a gap. And when a plant will not fit, the add screen now says why in plain words. Before, it could show a code word such as "fits" or "sun".