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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The guides get their paper covers, and a wrong number comes down
The guides, each guide section, the Garden Planner page and the pricing page have their own cut-paper pictures now. The Calendar page picture shows a real season, from spring lettuce to fall garlic.
Our research page said we hold human toxicity data for 7 crops. The real number is 44 of 153, and the page now says 44 everywhere. The 7 belonged to a different field. Either way, do not use this site to decide whether a plant is safe to eat.
The pricing page is shorter, and the full feature list is open without a click.
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Today's sky is now a cut-paper garden
The picture behind the Today screen is new: a cut-paper garden, with a lit greenhouse and raised beds under the mountains. It is relit through the day: blue before sunrise, a warm first light, full day, gold toward evening, and at night the moon and hanging stars over the lit greenhouse. The weather follows your forecast, each piece hung on its own thread: clouds across the sky, rain as a curtain of paper drops falling into the valley and the garden, a storm with a paper lightning bolt under its lowest cloud, fog with a pale sun, and snow with paper snowflakes. The clouds, rain and snowflakes sway with the day's forecast wind and the rain slants with it, so a still day hangs nearly still, while the sun, moon and stars hang still. The sun rides higher in summer and lower in winter, the moon shows its real phase and stays behind the clouds, and the week's weather sits along the bottom of the first screen, just above the buttons, with each day's chance of rain.
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What still fits is free now
What still fits is open on the free plan now. Pick a bed and see what would still finish before your first frost, and how many fit. The Garden Planner, which builds your whole Garden Plan, is still on the paid plan.
In the app, the planning screen is called the Garden Planner now, and the plans it makes are Garden Plans. Your saved plans are all still there.
This website has the same cut-paper look as the app now, with a page for each thing the app does.
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A potted citrus tells you when to bring it inside
A citrus in a pot — orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit, mandarin — now carries its own countdown instead of a hardiness quiz. When a forecast night drops below 50°F while it is still outside, Today and the plant's own page both show one job, "Bring it inside", with the night and the temperature named: "Thursday night drops to 47°F. In a pot, it comes inside once nights go below 50°F." Once it is marked inside, the job goes quiet, rain stops filling its water tank the same way a covered porch already does, and the winter-survival check never asks about it — a pot is not rooted in your winter. Come spring, once a whole week of forecast nights holds at or above 50°F, it tells you to move it back outside and ease it out gradually. Iowa State University Extension and University of Wisconsin–Madison Extension both give 50°F as the line, in both directions.
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PostHog now sees which kind of thing happened, never the words
PostHog already saw which pages and buttons get used. It now also sees named moments — a garden set up, a plant added, a question asked in Talk — so we can see the path a gardener actually takes, not just a pile of taps. What it gets is which kind of thing happened, never a plant's name, never what you typed, never a photo. Our privacy page and help page have been updated to say so.
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We started using PostHog, and said what it sees
GardenTrack now uses PostHog to see which pages and buttons get used, and to catch errors — on the site, the tools, and in the app. In the app it can also record your screen, but every word you type and every word on screen is hidden before the recording is made, and your photos are blocked from it entirely. It never gets your name or your email; once you sign in, it is told only a random number for your account. Turn on Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control in your browser and it never loads for you at all. Our privacy page used to say we ran no outside analytics tool. That was true when it was written and it is not true now, so the page changed in the same breath as the code — it now names PostHog and says exactly what it sees. Rewriting it, we found one more we had never named: since August, Ahrefs Web Analytics has counted visits to the website's pages, with no cookies. The page names it now too.
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A fruit tree's harvest ends with its window, not with frost
When a tomato's picking window closes, we keep the harvest job going until frost, because a tomato really does keep producing until the cold gets it. An apricot, raspberry, blueberry and the rest of the tree, bush and cane fruit were getting the same treatment, and it was wrong for them: their picking window is worked out from your frost dates, not from the day you planted, so it already describes their whole season. A two-year-old apricot was being told to keep harvesting into October, weeks after its own fruit was gone. A herb like mint or chives has its window worked out from your frost dates too, and correctly keeps the extension — you cut it all season, same as a tomato. 22 crops get it now.
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Looked it over now says how it is
The one-tap "Looked it over" button used to record only "all fine." Now the first tap still saves it, and a short sheet offers the rest, all optional: how it is (thriving, fine, or struggling), the soil two inches down when it tracks one, and whether anything is wrong. Say struggling and the plant's own word changes to match, until it goes stale or a newer look says otherwise — water, a ready pick or a job still come first.
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Ending a plant, and writing something down, both moved into the ⋯ menu
The How it ended card and Add another plant used to sit at the foot of every plant's page, below everything else. They are gone from there now — add a plant from the + button, as everywhere else. The ⋯ menu's Say it is done (or Say it is still going, once ended) opens the same three words — Harvested out, It died, Pulled it out — in a sheet, so a menu tap still only opens something that asks rather than writing on its own. A finished plant keeps its ended sentence at the top of the page, in the now block. The Story tab's row of one-tap buttons is gone too; Write something down, now first in the ⋯ menu, opens the log with that plant already chosen.
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Saw a problem asks what you see first, like a plant clinic
A struggling plant now has its own door, above the free symptom matcher: Saw a problem. It asks the way a plant clinic’s intake form does — what you see, as taps, since when, in your own words last. The app fills in what it already knows for you: the pot, the last watering, a hot week, the last thing you saw on it — so you never retype what it already has. From there, match it yourself for free, or use Talk with your taps already in the box, unsent until you send it.
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Scroll down a plant's page and its own line stays at the foot
Scroll down a plant's page, past the one word for how it is, and the line just above the bottom buttons becomes that plant's own: its name, the same word — "Dry · water today", "Ready to pick" — and the button that answers it, Watered it or Picked. So you can read back through a plant's story and still water it in one tap, without scrolling back up. Tap the plant's name in that line and the page takes you back to the top of it. A frost warning still takes the line first. Also fixed: the short line under a plant's name now says its stage — Harvest, Fruit setting — where it used to repeat the word just below it, so a ripe apricot no longer says Ready to pick twice.
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A potted plant opens as the plant
Tap a pot with one plant in it on the Garden screen and you now get the plant, not the pot. The card shows the plant's name and picture, with its pot in small type underneath. The pot is still one tap away, on the Growing space line at the top of the plant's page, and the plant's Details tab has a new Its pot section. A pot with two or more different plants still opens as the pot.
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A tree's age counts the years before you planted it
If you told us how old a tree or bush was when you planted it, its page now counts those years. A nursery tree set out last summer at a year old reads "About 2 years old", and if its crop can start fruiting at two, the page says it is old enough to start. Before, the sentence counted only the seasons since planting and could call the same tree too young, just above a list of fruiting jobs worked out from its real age. The Garden screen reads the same age.
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Say it is done now asks one more thing: grow it again?
The ⋯ menu's Say it is done still writes the ending the moment you tap Harvested out, It died, or Pulled it out — nothing about that changed. The sheet now asks one more thing after: Grow it again? Yes or no, and an optional line for anything worth remembering. Skip it and nothing more is stored. Answer it, and the next time you plant the same kind, its page opens with what you said — Last year you said: grow it again, with your own words if you left any.
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Plant pictures sit on a plain tile
The drawings of your crops no longer have a glow behind them. Each one sits on a plain tile, the same at every hour, and the plant's name sits on the tile itself, so it is easy to read at night. A bed or pot with no photo of its own is a plain card too, with small drawings of what is growing in it.
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Plants sown together in a pot show as one
Three beans added to one pot in one go now show as one tile on the Garden screen, Wax Bean ×3, with one line saying what the pot needs, and a tap opens them. Each bean keeps its own record: the Details tab lists the others, and Give it its own page pulls one out if it needs its own story. Beans added one at a time on the same day get a one-time question, Show them as one? Only a pot does this; a raised bed keeps every plant on its own tile.
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A plant's page opens its doors
A plant's page has always shown what is coming, what it needs and what it grows — now those lines actually open somewhere. "Next" opens the Calendar on the season ahead. A due job you asked for opens that job's own page, the same one Today opens. "Everything, day by day" opens your journal narrowed to that one plant. "Its crop" opens the crop's own page. And when a walk photographed this plant, the newest shot from it sits beside "Your last look", open to tap.
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A plant's own page opens with how it is, not a hardiness quiz
Open a plant now and the first thing you see, under its photo, is one word for how it is — "Dry · water today", "Ready to pick", "All good" — with the button that answers it right under that: Watered it, Still damp, It rained for a thirsty plant, or Picked for a ripe one. A short line under the plant's name says its stage, where it is growing, and its age at a glance. Underneath, Next shows the two soonest things coming for that plant, and two tabs, Story and Details, hold everything else — the photos, the journal, the facts you can edit. Nothing about your winter hardiness zone shows up here any more; it is a garden-wide setting, answered once at Where you garden, and a perennial's own page reads the answer on its Details tab instead.
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A plant's Story tab opens with the Calendar's own line for it
Switch to a plant's Story tab and the first thing there now is that plant's own row from the Calendar — the same bar, the same stages, the same today mark you see on the whole-garden view, drawn just for this one plant. A caption above it, "This season", and a door straight to the Calendar. A tree, a bush or a cane — anything that comes back every year — gets the same row too, captioned "This year" and windowed to January through December, because its life is a cycle the Calendar's own grid leaves off its list rather than a countdown. A plant with no dates yet shows no row at all.
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A plant's Story tab remembers this week, last year
Open a plant's Story tab now and, under its chapters, you may see "This week, last year" — anything that plant has on record from about a week either side of today's date, in any earlier year you have. Newest year first, in the same words your journal already uses, with a photo where there is one — tap it to open it the same way a chapter's photo does. A plant in its first season shows nothing there, because there is nothing honest to say yet.
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Every plan now gets 75 credits a week, beta included
Until now an open plan, beta or paid, had no weekly limit on Talk. From today every plan gets the same: 75 credits every Monday, and anything you do not spend carries over instead of disappearing — up to 300 in all, so a quiet week banks credit for a busy one. The week bar beside the mic now shows both: this week's 75, and whatever is saved on top of it, in two colors, with a tap to see the exact split and when the next 75 lands. The work the app does behind the scenes is free and never touches your credits. On a paid plan, if you do run out, Rafe pauses until Monday and tells you so in one line. Everything else in the app keeps working, including your plants, dates, journal and reminders.
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This week, last year now reaches annuals
"This week, last year" used to look only at one plant's own record, so a tomato — replanted fresh every year — never had an earlier year to show. Now the Story tab also reads your earlier plantings of the same variety (or the same crop, when you never said which variety) and names each one — "Your Sungold in the raised bed" — so you know which plant the record came from. A perennial's own history still shows exactly as it did, unlabeled.
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Usage shows as a ring and three bars, not a paragraph
The usage control beside the mic is now a small ring, the way Claude shows its own usage — no word, filling as this conversation grows. Tap it and a panel opens with three bars instead of sentences: this chat, the past 7 days, and this month. The last two are both a share of the one monthly allowance every plan has — there is no separate weekly limit — and this month also shows when it starts over, shown in your own time.
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Rafe keeps the whole conversation in mind
A chat in Talk used to keep only its last dozen messages, so a long one lost its start. Now it keeps the whole conversation, up to a size limit, and only a very long thread begins to forget its earliest part. Rafe takes a correction the way you mean it, too: move a peach, then say "no, the other peach," and he moves the one you meant and puts the first one back.
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Rafe moves the plants when you empty a bed
Ask Rafe to "move everything in the orchard to the side yard bed" and he used to offer to move the orchard itself, trees and all. Now every plant gets a move of its own into the bed you named. If you asked for the old bed to go too, it is taken out last, once it is empty.
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Rafe’s cards print dates month-first
Rafe used to say "last frost 29 Apr" and "Remind: net the peaches, Fri 25 Sep" — day-first, which reads British. His cards now say "last frost Apr 29" and "Fri, Sep 25", matching every other date in the app.
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A picture shows only the thing it was taken of
A bed, a pot or a garden zone now shows only a photo of itself, never one borrowed from a plant or a bed inside it. A pot with one plant no longer shows the same picture as its plant. A garden zone can have its own picture for the first time: open its page and take one of the whole zone with the camera, and retake it any time. Until a place has a photo of its own, it shows small icons of what is growing in it. The Walk button on the Garden tab is also easy to read at night now.
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A plant sent to the porch gets its own pot
Ask Rafe to move a plant to a part of your garden that holds only pots, like a porch or a patio, and he now makes a pot for that plant there and moves it in. Before, he stopped to ask which pot you meant. If a pot named for that plant is already there, the plant goes into it.
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The thing you ask about comes in as its card
Tap Ask on a plant, a bed, a part of your garden or a task, and it now arrives above the box as its own card, with its picture and where it lives, instead of a bare name. The card stays on your message after you send it, and tapping it opens that plant or bed’s details so you can change them right there.
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"No, the other one" puts the first back
Rafe now remembers what his own last reply changed, so correcting him makes sense. Say "move a peach to the front porch" and then "no, the other peach," and he moves the first peach back to where it came from before he moves the one you meant. Before this, Rafe had no way to know which thing he had just moved, or where from, once you answered in words instead of a tap.