Garden Me

Your plants are pleading. You simply cannot hear them. Garden Me is an AI gardener in your pocket. Photograph anything green and learn what it is, what it wants, and — before you hand over your money in the garden centre — how much work it will actually be. Outdoors and indoors both. An acre, a balcony, a greenhouse, the shared courtyard of a housing association, or a flat with no ground at all, where the garden is a windowsill and the weather is a window. You say which, and the app becomes a different app. In the shop Photograph it on the shelf. You get the species, often down to the cultivar, the light and the soil it wants, and an honest answer on whether it is a joy or a second job. At home Tell us where it stands — in the ground, in a pot, in a raised bed, under glass or on a windowsill, sun or shade — and the care becomes specific to that plant in that spot. A pot dries out in a day while the border holds water for a week. Then the reminders begin, and carry on quietly for years. The garden devils Slugs, weeds, aphids, blight. Photograph the culprit, or merely the damage it left behind, and learn who did it and how to be rid of them. Never harmful chemicals: every method we suggest is natural and kind to the soil. The slugs do not deserve a war crime. The garden heroes Every garden has a workforce, and most of it is never thanked. Bees, ladybirds, earthworms, hedgehogs, and the ground beetle that eats slug eggs out of the soil in April. One is picked each month — not the one you are most likely to see, but the one that needs you now — with one small thing you can do for it. While you are away Share the garden as a web page your neighbour can open. They see what wants doing this week and which plant is which, in an ordinary browser, with no app to install and no account to invent. Two phones, one garden A garden is usually kept by two people. One code of twelve characters, typed into the other phone, and you are tending the same garden, photographs and all. No account, no email address, nobody to sign up as. It admits when it is wrong Disagree with an identification and say so. Garden Me reasons again from scratch, never offering the same answer twice, and it costs you nothing. Every identification also knows what month it is where you stand, and says so when the season genuinely costs it evidence rather than quietly guessing. Also inside - Watering reminders worked out from the pot, the light and how much the plant forgives - Weather alerts for frost, drought and heat - A garden journal, and a harvest log that adds the season up - Toxicity notes, for households with a cat, a dog or small children - What to sow this month, where you live - Shopping and equipment lists composed from your own garden - A wish list for what you found and did not buy today - Several gardens: home, cabin, balcony, greenhouse, allotment - Ten languages, and seventeen countries to choose from What it costs Free to download, with ten actions to begin and three more at the start of every month. An action is one identification, one question or one light check — anything where the app has to stop and think. The garden itself, the reminders, the year wheel, the journal, the harvest log, the wish list, sharing a garden with your household and the weather warnings are never counted, and never will be. One thing is a subscriber's: the shopping list. No two gardens are composed alike, so yours is written from scratch each time it changes. It comes with the subscription, or costs a single action. Gardener on hand gives you sixty actions a month, which is more than a large garden manages to use. Or buy actions outright — they never expire, there is nothing to renew and nothing to remember to cancel. Plants never complain. So we do it for them.