A gardening companion

Spend more time
in the dirt.

Track seeds, log plantings, and plan layouts — without the spreadsheets, graph paper, or guilt.

Pocket Gardener home screen showing your garden overview

The real problem

You know how to garden.
Remembering it is the hard part.

The seeds you bought last year. Which bed got the tomatoes. When you started the peppers. It's all in your head until it isn't.

Duplicate purchases

You've bought Cherokee Purple three times. You know it. We know it.

Lost timing

"When did I start the tomatoes last year?" Silence.

Scattered notes

Spreadsheets, notebooks, sticky notes, memory. None of it talks to each other.

Forgotten layouts

Where did the squash go? What was in bed three? Good luck.

Seed Inventory

Stop buying Cherokee Purple. Again.


Scan a seed packet with your camera. We pull the details. Your inventory builds itself — searchable, organized, and accessible from the garden center aisle.

  • Camera-powered packet scanning
  • Searchable catalog of every variety you own
  • Know what you have before you buy more
Scan a seed packet to add it to your inventory

Garden Journal

Your journal writes itself.


Every task you log, every photo you take, every observation you make becomes part of the record. No journaling discipline required — your garden's story builds itself from what you actually do.

  • Auto-generated entries from your daily actions
  • Photo documentation tied to plants and beds
  • Searchable season history
Garden journal with automatic entries from your activity

Garden Workbench

Sketch it. Plant it. Remember it.


Graph paper that lives on your phone. Sketch raised beds, map containers, plan multiple gardens — front yard, backyard, community plot, indoor shelf. All in one place.

  • Drag-and-drop garden layout editor
  • Multiple gardens and grow areas
  • See what's growing across everything
Garden workbench with layout planner and journal

Lifecycle Tracking

From packet to plate. Every step.


The full arc — starting seeds under grow lights in March, potting up, hardening off on the porch, transplanting into the bed, first harvest in July. Every stage logged without thinking about it.

  • Track seed starting, potting up, hardening off
  • See where every plant is in its journey
  • Harvest tracking that shows what actually produced
Track every stage from seed to harvest with milestone logging

How it works

Three steps. That's it.

1

Scan your seeds

Point your camera at a packet. We pull the details. Inventory builds itself.

2

Log as you go

Planted? Tap. Watered? Tap. Harvested? Tap. Your journal writes itself from actions.

3

Look back & learn

Next spring, you'll know exactly what you grew, when you planted, and what worked.

Free tools

No Googling required.

Quick answers to the questions that interrupt your day in the garden.

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Frost Risk Calculator

Your zip code. Your actual frost dates. Not some national average.

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Soil Calculator

How much soil for that 4×8 raised bed? The math you'd rather not do at the garden center.

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Companion Planting

Tomatoes and basil? Great. Tomatoes and fennel? Disaster. No guesswork.

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What To Grow

Your zone, your space, your taste. A starting point that makes sense.

Built-in gardening tools and calculators

Garden Intelligence

You log. We explain.


Like having a gardener friend who actually knows things. Personalized guidance for your specific garden — not generic advice from a database.

  • Personalized planting recommendations
  • Contextual insights at every stage
  • What's thriving, what needs attention
  • Season-over-season learning
  • Last year's data informing this year's decisions
$24.99 / year
or $4.99 / month
Try Garden Intelligence
Garden Intelligence insights personalized to your garden

Our philosophy

No guilt. No schedules. Just dirt.

"We built Pocket Gardener because every gardening app we tried felt like homework. This one shouldn't."

A gardening app should get out of your way. Log when you want. Skip when you don't. Your garden doesn't judge you, and neither do we.

Get started

Spend more time
in the dirt.

Track seeds, log plantings, plan layouts. Works offline. No account needed.