Getting Started

The first step is telling the planner where you garden. You have three options:

• Use My Location — tap the green GPS button to let the planner find the closest NOAA weather station and pull real 30-year frost-date averages for your area.
• Address or ZIP code — type a street address, city, or ZIP and press Look Up. The planner geocodes it and matches you to the nearest station automatically.
• Manual zone selection — pick your USDA hardiness zone (3a–9b) from the dropdown. The planner fills in average frost dates for that zone. You can fine-tune the dates afterward.

Once a location is set your entire schedule builds instantly. You can always override frost dates manually — the planner recalculates everything in real time.

Season Info & Weather

A season bar near the top shows today's date alongside a countdown to your next frost milestone (e.g. "12 days until last spring frost"). If you used GPS or an address, the bar also displays current weather conditions and a scrollable 10-day forecast with highs, lows, and weather icons.

Below the season bar is an expandable Farmer's Almanac section with seasonal growing tips tailored to your zone — spring outlook, summer care, fall planning, winter prep, and real-time weather-based advice when a current temperature is available.

Weekly Task Summary

Just above the crop table, the weekly task summary shows exactly what needs doing this calendar week. Tasks are grouped into color-coded cards:

• Start Indoors (purple) — seeds to sow in trays or pots under lights.
• Transplant (blue) — seedlings ready to move into the garden.
• Direct Sow (green) — seeds to plant straight into the ground.
• Harvest (orange) — spring-planted crops that should be producing now.

If nothing falls in the current week the section stays hidden — no clutter.

Crop Table

A searchable, sortable table of 100+ crops with 550+ varieties. Each row shows date-range columns for indoor start, transplant, direct sow, harvest, fall sow, minimum soil temperature, sunlight needs, and watering frequency.

Click any row to expand a detail card with planting depth, row and seed spacing, seeds per 100 ft, yield estimates, days to harvest, variety recommendations for your climate zone, and live companion-plant data from OpenFarm.

Timeline View

Switch to Timeline view for a horizontal bar chart spanning January through December. Each crop gets a row of color-coded bars showing when its planting windows fall. Vertical dashed lines mark your spring and fall frost dates so you can see the entire growing season at a glance.

Crop Filters

Use the search box to find crops by name or tag (e.g. "cool season" or "part shade"). The season toggle switches between All, Spring, and Fall crops. A sort dropdown lets you order by name, earliest planting date, latest harvest, or season type. A view mode toggle switches between table and timeline.

Exporting & Printing

Two buttons in the top-right corner help you take your schedule offline. Export CSV downloads a spreadsheet you can open in Excel or Google Sheets. Print opens your browser's print dialog with a clean, printer-friendly layout — buttons and filters are hidden automatically.