Most gardening apps are built for the northern hemisphere. Planting Season is different, every feature is designed around the specific climate of your region, so you stop guessing and start growing.
Most gardening advice is written for the northern hemisphere. The generic apps don't know your climate. And there's only so many times you can watch a tomato fail before you give up. Planting Season was built to fix all of that.
Books, YouTube, gardening apps, almost everything is calibrated for the northern hemisphere. In the warm north you can plant through much of winter; in the cold south the season is short and frost-bound. Generic advice gets it backwards.
Miss the sowing window by a few weeks and you've wasted the whole season. Most gardeners guess and get it wrong. Planting Season shows you exactly what to plant right now, updated every month.
Seeds and seedlings cost money. When something fails it's demoralising, and usually avoidable. The right timing, the right spacing, the right companions: the app puts all of that in your pocket before you spend a cent.
Was that basil planted 4 weeks ago or 8? Which bed needs water today? When should the tomatoes be ready? Trying to track it in your head, or in a notebook that lives inside, means things get missed.
Every veggie has its own set of pests and diseases. Without knowing what to look for, damage escalates before you act. The plant library tells you exactly what threats each plant faces and when to expect them.
Some plants are forgiving. Others punish a beginner. Not knowing where something sits on that scale means beginners take on plants they're not ready for, and then blame themselves when it fails.
Growing silverbeet is great, right up until you're staring at a pile of it and have no idea what to cook. The app includes kitchen uses, recipe ideas, and storage guides so the harvest actually gets eaten.
Beds that are too crowded, incompatible plants fighting each other, no plan for what comes after the current season ends. Without a visual layout tool, garden planning stays in your head and never quite works out.
Planting Season gives every New Zealand home gardener, beginner or experienced, a clear, confident answer to every one of these questions. In one free app, built specifically for this climate.
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The Plant Now shelf shows every crop that's in season right now for your New Zealand region, updated automatically each month. No more guessing, no more planting at the wrong time.
My Garden keeps tabs on everything you're growing. Each plant shows its current stage, days since planting, and a live progress bar so you always know where you're at.
The Plant Library covers 166 vegetables, fruits, herbs and companion flowers, all with growing advice tuned to New Zealand conditions. Each plant goes far beyond the basics.
The Planting Calendar shows every plant mapped across all 12 months, so you can plan your season ahead and never miss an optimal sowing window.
Every plant knows its friends and enemies. The app automatically warns you when incompatible plants end up next to each other in your garden bed, before you make a costly mistake.
The Tasks panel builds a personalised daily checklist based on what you're actually growing, no manual entry required.
The Weather panel pulls a live forecast for your region and turns it into garden advice, so you know when to water, when to cover up, and when to hold off sowing.
Planting Season is a Progressive Web App, it installs straight to your phone or tablet home screen in one tap, with no App Store involved. Then it runs completely offline.
Unlock the whole app: unlimited beds, cloud saving, the harvest tracker, a daily briefing that thinks for you, and modules for the entire homestead, poultry, bees, worms and more. One-time lifetime licence available.
Map out your actual garden with the drag-and-drop Bed Planner. Set the exact dimensions of each bed, drag plants into every square, and see your whole garden laid out at a glance.
The Harvest Tracker lets you record every pick, how much you grew, in what unit, and which bed it came from. It adds up over a season into something pretty satisfying.
Cloud saving keeps your garden backed up automatically. Update from your phone in the garden, check from your tablet on the couch, it's always in sync.
The Yard Planner lets you lay out your entire backyard to scale. Drag in garden beds, trees, structures, water features and more to plan before you put a single spade in the ground.
Once you're tracking a few things, the app starts connecting the dots for you.
Every morning the app reads what's happening across your patch and writes you a short brief, what to do today and why. It joins the dots between modules so nothing slips.
Ask your garden answers from your own data, not a generic chatbot. Type a question the way you'd say it out loud and get an answer grounded in what you're actually growing.
Planting Season runs the whole backyard, not just the garden beds. Switch on only the modules you want, 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.
Hives with guided inspections, honey harvests and varroa treatment tracking, built around the New Zealand beekeeping calendar.
Goats, sheep, cattle and pigs, health, breeding and records for the bigger animals on a lifestyle block.
Feeding, health and castings for your worm bin, so the free fertiliser keeps flowing back to the garden.
Track bays, turns and temperature, and get told when a batch is ready to spread, no more guessing.
Tank levels, rainfall and usage in one place, with low-water alerts before you run dry over summer.
See what's flowering for the bees month by month, so there's always forage across the season.
Log every batch of preserves and eat them in good time, the pantry warns you before anything turns.
Grow-out batches plus a use-by-aware freezer list, so you actually use what's in the chest freezer.
A seed inventory with germination rates and viability dates, know what you have before you buy more.
The extras that turn a planting app into a record of your whole growing year.
Track pH, feeds and amendments per bed over time, so you can see what's actually improving your soil.
A care journal and yield record for fruit trees, canes and vines, the plants that pay off year after year.
Move plant families around your beds each season to dodge the pests and diseases that build up in the soil.
Garden by the lunar phases if that's your thing, sowing and harvest timing mapped to the moon.
A photo diary of wins, flops and notes, so next season you remember exactly what happened and when.
Tasks, events, bin day and even birthdays on one month view, the whole homestead's schedule at a glance.
Diagnose what's troubling a plant, then log what you tried, so the app remembers what actually worked for you.
See what your harvest is worth at retail prices, so you can watch the garden pay for itself over a season.
Track what you spend on seeds, mix and feed, so the savings figure reflects your real, honest profit.
Planting Season covers 8 New Zealand regions, from subtropical Northland to frosty Central Otago. Each has its own calendar tuned to local conditions, and more are on the way.
The smaller things that add up to a much better experience.
Every sowing window, variety recommendation and growing note is calibrated for your specific New Zealand region, not a generic national average.
Each plant shows its ideal soil temperature range for germination, so you know when conditions are right to sow.
Exact planting depth and row spacing for every plant, so you can maximise yield per square metre.
Common pests and diseases listed per plant, so you can identify and act fast when something goes wrong.
Know which plants can handle a cold snap and which need protection, useful for those inland South Island frosts in June and July.
For key plants, we list the best local varieties to grow in your region, with where to buy them from New Zealand suppliers and nurseries.
Already growing something? Edit the planted date so your stage tracker and harvest countdown are accurate from day one.
Approximate litres per week and watering frequency for every plant, so you can plan irrigation and spot drought stress early.
Full sun, part shade or shade, every plant tells you exactly what it needs, and the bed planner flags mismatches.
Each plant lists its key health benefits, so you can make choices that are good for your body, not just your garden.
Every plant is rated Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced, so you can start with wins and build up your skills over time.
Know at a glance whether a plant thrives in pots, needs to be in the ground, or works either way, perfect for balcony growers.
From raw to roasted, pesto to pickled, each plant comes with how to use it in the kitchen so nothing goes to waste.
How long does it keep? Fridge, pantry, or freeze? Every plant tells you the best way to store what you've grown.
Is it actually worth growing versus buying at the shops? Each plant gets a value score so you can focus on the ones that save you the most.
See how many plants are growing, how many are harvest-ready, and how many need water today, all from the main dashboard.
Earn XP every time you harvest, water, or hit a milestone. Level up from Seedling through to Master Grower.
Manage your subscription, update payment details, or cancel anytime from your personal billing portal, no support request needed.
Planting Season keeps growing. These are the latest modules, several of them things no other New Zealand garden app does.
Works out how much to grow for your household from sourced quantities, then learns from your real harvests each season. More →
Track winter chill for your region and know whether a fruit variety will actually fruit where you live before you buy. More →
Turns the forecast into garden decisions, frost cover, rain-aware watering and the best days to sow for your region. More →
See which pests are due this month for your region and crops, so you protect early instead of reacting late. More →
Joins every module up, chickens to compost to beds, bees to fruit, a glut to the pantry. The more you switch on, the smarter it gets. More →
Health records, treatments and reminders across your flock and livestock, so nothing health-related slips between visits.
Keep your local seed shops, feed suppliers, vet and beekeeping contacts in one place, ready when you need them.
Lay out your whole property to scale and every module links to the spot on the map it belongs to. More →
Step-by-step growing guides for the crops you plant, written for New Zealand conditions. Browse →
Most apps are the same on day 500 as day one. Planting Season is different. Every record you keep makes the next season sharper.
It starts from sourced quantities, then tunes its numbers against your real logged harvests, your seed box and your full pantry. Next year's grow list is yours, not an average.
Diagnose a problem, log what you tried, and the app remembers the fix. Next time the same trouble shows up, you already know what beat it.
Every module you switch on gives the others more to work with. Turn on the flock and the compost and your beds, and the whole system starts joining the dots for you.
Reminders adjust to your real watering history and the forecast, rather than firing fixed timers that ignore the rain.
Out in the garden with no signal? Everything keeps working. Your records save locally and sync back up when you are connected again.
It is your garden and your records. Export your data whenever you like, and pay once to unlock Pro rather than feeding an endless subscription.
Nothing in your backyard is a silo. Switch on the modules you want and Planting Season quietly joins them up.
Full walk-throughs of the tools that make Planting Season different.
Design your real garden to scale, with true plant spacing and companion checks.
Grow the right amount for your household, and watch it learn from your harvests.
How the whole backyard joins up into one working system.
Chickens, ducks and quail in one place, with a memorial for the ones you lose.
Guided inspections and varroa tracking on the New Zealand calendar.
Turn a glut into a full pantry that actually gets eaten in time.
Know whether a fruit tree will crop where you live before you plant it.
See the pests coming and protect your crops before the damage starts.
Let the forecast plan your watering, frost cover and best sowing days.
Free to start. Works offline. Built for New Zealand.