At its simplest, Planting Season tells you what to plant now where you actually live, and tracks it from seed to harvest. Go deeper and it runs the whole place: garden beds, the flock, the bees, the soil, the pantry, and the records that tie a real homestead together.
Every calendar is built for your US region and your frost dates, not a national average. One simple unlock, not a stack of subscriptions. It works fully offline, and your data stays yours.
Most garden apps give you one generic calendar and a paywall for every extra. We took the opposite approach.
Sow times, varieties and tasks are tuned to your US region and your real last and first frost dates, from frost-free South Florida to short-season Alaska.
Start free. When you are ready, one Pro unlock opens everything, with a lifetime option. No add-on fees for individual modules.
It installs to your phone, tablet or desktop in one tap and runs in the garden with no signal. No App Store required.
You own everything you log. Export your garden, your records and your harvests whenever you like, in plain files you can keep.
The core of the app. Most of this is free, and it covers everything from your first pot to a full backyard plot.
Your home screen. A short, plain-language brief of what needs doing in your garden right now.
How to use: open the app and read the top card. It pulls watering, harvests and warnings together for the day.
Benefit: nothing slips through the cracks, even on a busy week.
Lay out your actual beds to scale in feet and inches, then drag plants into the right spacing. True footprints, not generic squares.
How to use: set each bed's size, drag in plants, and the planner spaces and companion-checks them for you.
Benefit: you plant the right amount in the space you have, and avoid crowding.
Region-true sow times across all twelve months, anchored to your frost dates, not a national average.
How to use: pick your region once. The calendar then shows the right windows to start seeds and transplant.
Benefit: you stop missing the window and stop planting too early into a late frost.
A daily checklist built from what you are actually growing. Watering, harvest alerts and attention flags.
How to use: just plant things. Tasks appear automatically and you tick them off as you go.
Benefit: the garden tells you what it needs instead of you trying to remember.
Vegetables, fruit, herbs and companion flowers with sow times, spacing, water and sun, pests, kitchen uses and storage.
How to use: search a plant to see everything before you sow, including difficulty and whether it suits pots.
Benefit: you choose plants that fit your skill, space and region with confidence.
Local conditions and the short-term outlook for your spot, right inside the app.
How to use: glance at the forecast before you plan a watering or planting day.
Benefit: you skip watering before rain and protect tender plants before a cold snap.
Tasks, events, trash day and even birthdays on one month view. The whole household's schedule at a glance.
How to use: switch to the month view to see what is coming across every part of the homestead.
Benefit: garden work fits around real life instead of competing with it.
Step-by-step how-to-grow guides written for US conditions, linked straight from each plant.
How to use: tap a plant, then open its guide for sowing, care and harvest steps.
Benefit: a clear plan for each crop, even if it is your first time growing it.
Type a question in plain words and get an answer from your own garden data, not a generic chatbot.
How to use: ask things like "what needs watering today?" or "what can I plant in the empty bed?"
Benefit: answers grounded in what you are actually growing, with no menus to hunt through.
A photo diary of wins, flops and notes across the season.
How to use: snap a photo and jot a line whenever something happens worth remembering.
Benefit: next season you remember exactly what worked and when.
Track pH, feeds and amendments per bed over time.
How to use: log a soil test or a feed against a bed. The history builds itself.
Benefit: you can see what is actually improving your soil instead of guessing.
A care journal and yield record for fruit trees, canes and vines, the plants that pay off year after year.
How to use: add each tree or vine and log pruning, feeding and harvests.
Benefit: long-lived plants get the steady care that makes them produce.
Move plant families around your beds each season to dodge the pests and diseases that build up in the soil.
How to use: the planner remembers what grew where and suggests where each family should go next.
Benefit: healthier soil and fewer recurring problems, year on year.
Sow and harvest timing mapped to the lunar phases, if that is your tradition.
How to use: switch it on to see lunar timing alongside the regular calendar.
Benefit: a long-held practice, built right in, with no extra app.
Tools that turn a hopeful garden into a planned one. Several of these are new.
Tell it how many people you feed and it works out how much of each crop to grow, then gets sharper as it learns from your real harvests, seed box and pantry.
How to use: set your household size and the crops you want, and it builds a plant-this-much plan.
Benefit: you grow enough to matter without ending up with forty pounds of zucchini.
Tracks accumulated winter chill for your area so you can pick fruit varieties that will actually set fruit where you live.
How to use: check your chill total before buying a peach, apple or blueberry variety.
Benefit: no more buying a high-chill tree that never fruits in a warm winter.
Looks ahead at frost risk and heat so you can time planting, protection and watering around what is coming.
How to use: check it before a planting day or when a cold or hot spell is forecast.
Benefit: you act before the weather costs you a crop, not after.
Map your whole property to scale with beds, trees, structures and water, with smart lenses for attention, sun, water and bees.
How to use: sketch your block once. Every module then links to a place on the map.
Benefit: you see the whole homestead in one picture and spot what needs attention.
Your running totals: pounds picked, what each crop produced, and what it is worth at store prices.
How to use: log a harvest from any plant and the totals add up automatically.
Benefit: watch the garden pay for itself across a season.
Track what you spend on seeds, soil and feed so your savings figure reflects real profit.
How to use: jot costs as you buy. They net off against your harvest value.
Benefit: an honest picture of what your garden actually saves you.
Switch on only the animals you keep. The rest stay out of your way.
Chickens, ducks and quail in one flock tracker: egg logs, health records, feed and individual birds, with a memorial for the ones you lose.
How to use: add your birds, log eggs and notes, and track each one over its life.
Benefit: healthier birds, a clear laying record, and a place to remember the ones that mattered.
Hives with guided inspections, honey harvests and treatment tracking, built around the US beekeeping calendar.
How to use: log each inspection and the app keeps your hive history and reminders.
Benefit: stronger hives, better honey, and nothing forgotten between visits.
Goats, sheep, cattle and pigs: health, breeding and records for the bigger animals on the land.
How to use: add each animal and keep its health and breeding history in one place.
Benefit: records you can rely on at sale, breeding or vet time.
A shared health and treatment log across poultry and livestock, with reminders for worming, vaccinations and withdrawal periods.
How to use: log a treatment once and the reminders and history follow the animal.
Benefit: you stay on top of animal care and meet withdrawal times safely.
See what is flowering for the bees month by month so there is always forage across the season.
How to use: check the bloom view and plant to fill any gaps in the nectar flow.
Benefit: stronger pollinators, which means a better-yielding garden too.
Grow-out batches plus a use-by-aware freezer list, so you actually use what is in the chest freezer.
How to use: log what goes in the freezer and the app warns you before it ages out.
Benefit: less waste and a clear view of the meat you have on hand.
The cycles that feed the garden back, and the harvest you keep for later.
Feeding, health and castings for your worm bin, so the free fertilizer keeps flowing back to the garden.
How to use: log feeds and harvests of castings. The app tracks when the bin is producing.
Benefit: a steady supply of the best soil amendment there is, for free.
Track bays, turns and temperature, and get told when a batch is ready to spread.
How to use: start a pile, log turns, and the app flags when it is finished.
Benefit: finished compost on schedule, with no more guessing.
Tank levels, rainfall and usage in one place, with low-water alerts before you run dry in summer.
How to use: log your tanks and rainfall, or let it track usage against your watering.
Benefit: you never get caught short in a dry spell.
A seed box with germination rates and viability dates, so you know what you have before you buy more.
How to use: add your packets. The app flags what is getting old and what you are missing.
Benefit: you stop buying seed you already own and stop sowing dead packets.
Log every batch of preserves and eat them in good time. The pantry warns you before anything turns.
How to use: record each batch of jam, sauce or pickles with its date.
Benefit: a full pantry that actually gets eaten, in the right order.
Where the app starts joining the dots, and where it shows what your effort is worth.
Diagnose what is troubling a plant from pests, disease and deficiencies, then log what you tried so it remembers what worked for you.
How to use: describe the symptoms, get likely causes and fixes, and record the outcome.
Benefit: faster, more confident fixes, and a record of your own successes.
A month-by-month heads-up of the pests likely to show up on your crops in your region, before they arrive.
How to use: check the upcoming month to see what to watch for and act early.
Benefit: you catch problems while they are small instead of after the damage.
The quiet engine that links your modules: compost feeds beds, a glut suggests preserving, saved seed updates your shopping list.
How to use: just keep logging. The more modules you switch on, the more useful the nudges become.
Benefit: the whole homestead works as one system, not a pile of separate lists.
Keep your seed sources, feed stores, vet and other contacts in one place, tied to the records that use them.
How to use: save a contact once and reach it from the relevant module when you need it.
Benefit: the number you need is always a tap away, not buried in your phone.
Plenty of apps are the same on day one as on day three hundred. Planting Season is not. The more you log, the more it works for you.
It starts from a sensible plan for your household. Then it reads your logged harvests, your seed box and your pantry, and sharpens how much of each crop it suggests you grow.
When you log what fixed a problem, it keeps that. Next time the same trouble shows up, it leads with what actually worked for you.
Each module you switch on gives Connections more to work with. Compost, bees, seed box and pantry all start feeding each other useful nudges.
Everything runs on your device in the garden, signal or not. It syncs when you are back online so your record is never tied to a connection.
The history you build is yours to keep. Export your garden, records and harvests in plain files at any time. No lock-in.
A real backyard is a loop, not a list. Planting Season treats it that way, so nothing you grow or keep is a silo.
Free to start, works offline, and built for your US region. Open the app and pick your region in seconds.