A little more about how the planner works.

Tell the planner about your location, growing spaces, sunlight, the foods you want to grow, and how you want to use your harvest. It combines those details with researched growing data to recommend crops, varieties, quantities, locations, and planting timing for your garden.

A ZIP code and a rough idea of your growing spaces are enough to begin. Bed and container dimensions, sunlight, and available trellises improve the plan, but you can start with estimates and edit them later.

The planner uses your location, USDA hardiness zone, historical frost timing, and the length of your growing season. It uses that context to avoid varieties and maturity windows that are poor fits for your local season.

The planner compares variety-level information—including maturity, growth habit, use, space, sunlight, support needs, and climate fit—with your garden and goals. It makes the initial selections for you and explains why they fit. You can still replace a variety, add your own, move crops, or change plant quantities.

No. Harvest ranges are planning estimates based on variety data, plant counts, and typical performance. Weather, soil, water, pests, disease, and day-to-day care can all change the final harvest.

Yes. You can show where supports are available in your layout. The planner uses them when evaluating climbing crops, spacing, and how to use your growing area efficiently.

Yes. The plan is a researched starting point, not a set of instructions you must follow. You can edit crops, varieties, quantities, growing-space assignments, and layout details as your garden changes.

Each year can keep its own plan and observations. When you plan another season, lessons such as poor placement, unexpected shade, disappointing yields, or a successful variety can help you keep what worked and adjust what did not.

Yes. You do not need to know which varieties to choose or how many plants will fit. The planner handles that research and explains its recommendations, while still letting experienced gardeners adjust the details.

Garden Planner is currently available as a friends and family beta. If access or pricing changes, that information will be shown clearly before you are asked to make a decision.

Your garden details and yearly plans are used to provide your planning experience and keep your work available when you return. They are not public. You can read the privacy notice for more detail about collection, protection, and your choices.

Garden Planner was created by a gardener and data scientist who wanted one place to turn variety research, local growing conditions, garden constraints, and lessons from previous years into practical decisions.