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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Warnings sit under the temperature, and a cold night is not called frost
Tonight's frost warning used to be the first row of your task list, below the week, where it looked like one more job. It now sits at the top of Today, just under the temperature, with a hot spell or a run of cold nights that starts today. One shows at a time; tap "2 more warnings" to see the rest, and "Show less" to fold them. The week row no longer counts a warning as a job. And a night in the forties no longer says frost: basil and sweet potato are hurt below about 50°F, so the warning was right, but frost needs a low of about 36°F or under. Above that it now says Cold nights, on the warning, the card and the week row alike. The week's day cards are thick glass now, so the picture behind them no longer shows through the numbers.
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Your Garden Plan says Season over, and stops asking
Once every date on your Garden Plan is behind you, usually the day after your first fall frost, it says Season over. Its dates stay where they were, in muted type, and it stops asking about that season, on the plan and on Today. Under the dates, Plan next season opens the Garden Planner on next year. If you’ve already saved a plan for a later season, it says Next season’s plan and opens that one. Garlic you logged on its day also stays on your plan now, instead of dropping off it the next morning. And if you delete a plan by mistake, Undo brings back all of it.
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By bed shows the day to prep each bed’s soil by
Each bed on By bed now carries a hatched box that says “Prep by” and a day. That day is the bed’s first planting day. Extension services say to work the soil before planting, when a handful crumbles instead of sticking, so the app gives you a deadline and no made-up lead time. Tap a bed and its sheet says the same.
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Garlic keeps its ground through spring
Garlic you plant in fall stands in its bed until summer. When your Garden Plan fills that bed in spring, it now leaves the garlic its ground instead of counting the same ground twice. A bed with garlic in it may get a plant or two fewer of something else.
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Hardening off reads the day you are having
You can give each day its own times under When you are around on your profile. Today was reading Monday’s row on every day, so a Saturday at home got the bring-in time of a workday. Now it reads the row for the day it is. On a day you are home all day, the bring-in time is counted from when the tray goes out.
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Home most days? Hardening off takes that as an answer
Setting up hardening off asks when you leave the house and when you are home again. Picking I am home most days left the button asking for a time you get home, so the only way on was Skip. Now that choice puts the second question away and That is my week saves it. The days have no set times: each day, Today shows the step and when to bring the tray back in.
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Next season’s plan starts from this season’s
Tap Plan next season on your finished Garden Plan and the Garden Planner opens with next season already drafted from it: the same beds, the same crops in the same numbers, and any crop you have starred since. A crop you marked Not again is left out, and so is a perennial still growing, and the foot of the list says which. Under each crop, one quiet line says what you logged last season, like In by May 9 · First pick logged Jul 20 · Grow again. It only states what you logged. Tap Start fresh to plan without it, or Save my plan to keep it as next season’s plan. Your Garden Plans now shows the season beside each plan.
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Next season’s plan rotates your crops
When two of your beds are the same size and get the same sun, next season’s draft now swaps their crops if that keeps a plant family out of the bed it grew in last season. Tomatoes don’t go back where tomatoes grew. The row says where the crop moved from, like Moved from Pepper bed · rotation, and you can move any crop back. If no swap keeps every family out of its old bed, nothing moves.
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The hardening off setup opens on your week
Change my reminder times opened the setup blank, even when you had already set your times, and picking two times there replaced every day of your week. Now it opens on the week you saved. When your days differ, each of the ten days shows its weekday and that day’s own times.
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Your Garden Plan opens on a painting of your garden
A saved Garden Plan now opens on a painting of your own garden: your beds and crops at the height of the season, in a landscape like your region’s. It starts painting while you review the plan, so it is often ready when the plan opens, and until then you see your garden drawing. It paints once per plan and stays on your phone, so it shows offline. It never shows your town or address.
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Your Season Recap card comes by email
Give your email on the Season Recap and we email you your card, with a link to see it again.
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A harvest is not a loss
For two weeks after a plant is finished, the Garden tab keeps it in its bed. It used to count every one of them as lost, so tomatoes you picked all summer sat beside a bed line reading "3 lost". Now only a plant you recorded as died counts as lost, and each finished plant says how it ended: harvested out, died or pulled out.
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A plan made ahead got no job on its day, and no question after
Add a plant with a date ahead of today, or save a plan in the Garden Planner, and the app is meant to put the job at the top of your list that morning, then ask the next day if nobody ticked it. For plans, neither happened. Adding a plan writes a line in its history, and the app read that line as the planting itself, so every plan looked done the moment it was made. Now only your answer counts. Seeds you start indoors are asked about as seed starts, "Start the peppers" on the day and "Did you start the peppers?" after it, where before the app told you to put the plants in.
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Hardening off takes your times again
Setting up hardening off asks when you leave the house and when you are home again, so the tray goes out and comes in while you are there. Since late August, picking one time forgot the other, so neither stayed picked and the only way on was Skip. Both now stay picked, the ten days appear with your times on them, and That is my week saves them. If you skipped it, you can set your times under When you are around on your profile.
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Move a crop to another bed
Tap a bed on your Garden Plan or on By bed, then Move a crop. Every other bed in your plan says how much room it has, such as Room for all 6 or No room. Tap one with room and the crop goes there with its dates. Your plan, the Schedule and Today follow, and Undo on the note puts it back. A crop you've already started stays where it is.
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Plants started together get one question
Five peppers started on the same day, added as one, now get one question on Today: did you start the peppers? One answer covers all five. Before, each plant got its own card, and three of them could fill the list. And when you answer a job on its own page, the page now shows what you said with an Undo. It used to say "Not on your list right now."
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See your season bed by bed
On your Garden Plan's Schedule, tap By bed. Every bed gets a row on the same season line: a dotted line while a crop grows, a heavy bar while you pick, and a box for a bed you still have to build. Tap a bed and its sheet comes up, with Swap a crop when nothing in it is started. Pots and trees are listed below, and each opens its own page.
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See your whole season on one line
Tap Schedule on your Garden Plan. Your season runs across one line, from the first job to the last pick, with your frost dates marked and the busy months shaded. Every crop you'll pick sits under it, with a bar over its months. When we don't know how long a crop keeps bearing, its bar fades out instead of guessing. One line says how many hours a week the busiest stretch takes.
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Share your Garden Plan as a picture
Tap Share at the foot of your Garden Plan. It makes one picture on your phone: your garden drawing, the day you start seeds, the day you first pick, and up to eight of your crops. Send it from your phone's share sheet, or save it. It never shows your street, your ZIP or a map point.
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Swap a crop on your saved Garden Plan
Tap a bed on your Garden Plan, then Swap a crop. It offers up to three crops that fit that bed, each with how many and its own day, or Nothing to leave the spot empty. Swap changes your plan, Today’s list and What to buy together, and Undo puts it back. A crop you have already started stays put, and the plan tells you so.
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Tap a bed on your Garden Plan
Tap a bed in your Garden Plan’s drawing and a sheet opens over the plan: its size, its crops, and the day each goes in, like lettuce sown Apr 1, tomatoes out May 6. Change the size right there and the drawing redraws the bed to scale. Move it on the map opens that area ready to drag the bed where it really is.
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Tap a crop on your Schedule
On your Garden Plan's Schedule, tap a crop to see when it's sown, when it goes out and when you pick it. Tap the Busy band for its jobs day by day, or a flag for the next jobs in order. When nobody's published how long a crop keeps bearing, it shows the day picking starts and no end date. The back button closes the sheet.
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GardenTrack Free’s AI is a one-time taste
GardenTrack Free comes with 2 photo adds, 2 diagnoses, 1 garden walk and 2 Talk chats of 6 turns. They never refill, and the ring beside the mic shows what’s left. If a paid plan or the beta ends with more than 10 plants in your garden, you pick the 10 to keep. The rest are hidden but saved, and they come back if you upgrade.
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Your Garden Plan asks when a seed start slips by
When the day to start seeds indoors goes by and nothing says you did, your Garden Plan now asks: did you start the peppers? Yes records the sowing on the day it was due. Not yet moves the start to the last day that still makes your planting-out date, and tells you what that keeps, like start them by Mar 18, out May 13, first peppers about Jul 18. Undo puts it back. Once the last day has passed, it says it is too late to start them from seed and how many plants to buy instead, and one tap puts them on What to buy. Or skip that crop this year. Today asks the same questions, with the same answers, and answering them there does the same thing.
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A frost in the forecast moves your planting-out day
When your forecast shows a night at 35 °F or colder in the first three nights after tomatoes, peppers or another frost-tender plant is due out, your Garden Plan moves planting out to the first day with three clear nights ahead of it. It tells you what moved and why, like plant-out moves to May 10, 34 °F on May 8 and 9, first tomatoes about Jul 7. Today shows the same card. Keep puts your day back and it stays put. If the forecast warms up before the day, your original day comes back on its own.
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Your Garden Plan works around a trip
Tell your Garden Plan when you will be away and it moves anything due that week to the day you are back, as long as that is still inside the plant’s window. It says so before you save: back May 10, tomatoes, beans and pumpkins go in that day. If the day back is too late, it goes in the day before you leave, or the plan tells you it would miss its window. A harvest it cannot move out of the trip is named, not hidden. Clear the trip and every date goes back.
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You can join the beta
Fill in a short form at gardentrack.app/beta and you’ll get every paid feature free until July 13, 2027. There are 100 places, and invite codes still work. All we ask is that you try new things as they come out and tell us how they go.
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Your Garden Plan asks how big the yard is
A yard nobody has measured is drawn at 30 × 20 feet until you say. Now your Garden Plan asks: tap How big is the back yard? under its drawing, set the width and length in feet, and the drawing changes as you go. A big step is about 3 feet. New beds the plan suggested move to fit inside the yard, and a bed you have built stays put. If the yard is too small for them all, it says so before you save. A new plan asks once, right when you tap Save my plan, and won’t save a plan whose beds don’t fit without telling you which crops lost their room.
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Your Season Recap lands in your garden
Save your Season Recap to your account and every plant in it comes into your garden as a past planting, with its note, your idea for next year and whether you’d grow it again. Past plantings don’t count toward the free plan’s 10 plants. Next year, when you add the same crop, its page shows what you said.
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The free app is open
GardenTrack has a free plan now. You can open it at app.gardentrack.app and start right away. You don’t need a card, and there’s no trial. The free plan gives you 10 active plants and as many growing spaces as you like. You also get the Today screen, frost and heat warnings for your spot, the journal, adding plants by hand, and 2 one-time Talk chats of 6 turns each. It also comes with a one-time taste of the photo tools: 2 photos to add plants, 2 photo diagnoses and photo checks on 1 garden walk. They don’t refill. You can also check What still fits in any bed. The Garden Planner, which builds your whole Garden Plan, is on the paid plan.
The free Season Recap opened today too, at gardentrack.app/recap. You talk or type through how your garden went, and GardenTrack sorts it out plant by plant and turns it into notes for next year.
Paid plans open Jan 5, 2027, at $15 a month or $150 a year. The price entries further down this page are older, and these are the ones that apply now.