While horticulture is a great pastime, if you want to unplug with all your appliances and re -connect with the natural world, the irony is that there is a complete host of technical equipment that can make you more successful from calendars and spreadsheets to countless apps. But one of later, Sowing timeThe only horticulture app I used by me has replaced my other digital calendars, spreadsheets and layout tools-and even some of my non-technical equipment such as notebooks and magazines.
While seedtime used to be only a horticulture app among many people to manage its external functions, it has achieved so much functionality over the years (for example, this week it introduced a new inventory management facility for your seeds and fertilizer inputs such as other garden input) that it has become an indispensable tool for my garden plan and management.
Project management for my garden
It is flexible to add new crops to the calendar. You can change standard seedling and planting time, or even add the necessary steps for this particular crop.
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Although I plant almost the same things at the same time every year, it was never easy to get down on a calendar. For example, if I enter my entire seeding schedule on the Google calendar, but later it turned out that I need to push everything back in a week because due to the weather, there is no easy way to do so.
For this, the calendar of seedtime solves. It focuses on what you want to grow: you input all the crops that you want, in detail, are you starting the seed inside or out, or planting a beginning, as well as a regular planting like a tomato like a tomato or a regular planting. Cedtime crunchs all the data and translates it into a calendar that will tell you when to start the seed, when to transplant them out, and when to harvest. The app would suggest that depending on the final frost date in your zip code, start seeding, or you can manually choose a start date.
If you need to push all or part of your planting back, it is easy to do so by clicking on a particular crop and changing the initial date; Seedtime takes care of the rest. The calendar year -the -year -year is reusable, so you do not have to do your work annually. The seedtime tool allows you to easily track the yield of a particular crop -they, those radishes: you can track the year -head, which the varieties are doing better than others (something that I had never done in the earlier years, so I will only plant the same varieties again, year -SAL).
I am bad about planting succession in summer, even if I know that I need to stay on top of it. Cedtime takes all manual planning efforts out of the equation, so I just need to follow the calendar that presents it.
Auto-related work lists
Screenshot from mobile app
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When you are entering crops in the calendar, the seedtime translates each stage of the process as a task, and places it in a straightforward two-do list, which is held according to the date. While the calendar gives you an observation, the task list provides a simple way to see what you should do today and tomorrow, so that you can focus.
Setting these tasks can be done manually, of course, but the app is a real -time saving for me, if only for flexibility it gives me: If it rains or is too hot for the plant, the tasks are easily postponed in the app, and those changes are sinking back to the calendar.
You can add as much additional tasks as you need for your overall garden or single crop. There is a strong filtering tool, so that you can only look at seeding or planting functions. If you have used general project management equipment such as posture or Monday, the function of seedtime will feel familiar.
It becomes easier to keep a magazine from the app
Jernling in seedtime
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I am a very big proposer of Jernling for your garden. I have talked about a place to keep a visual photo diary as well as keep notes throughout the year. Notes allow you to remember small things that you notice in your garden moment, but will definitely forget to winter, when you start planning next year’s garden. For example, my notes often remind me that the trailis need to work, or not put brinjal in a special place next year, or that I need more flower bulbs to fill a hole in the garden.
But jernling is only useful when you remember to do it. Seedtime has a simple jernling feature that allows you to input notes and/or photos quickly, making it much more comfortable. Pictures are incredibly useful to be able to see when some crops were popping last year, so you can see if you are tracking this growing season. They can also show you how the garden changes over time. Having an app in my disposal gives a great way to organize my thoughts, and all of them are kept safe and in one place – I kept my gardening magazine wrongly for a month last year, and it made me crippled. Having all the data stored in the cloud means that it will not happen again.
Track your inventory
Inventory management in seedtime
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As soon as you in the garden, you will receive a collection of seeds, fertilizers and other garden almanacs. Organizing these inputs is a continuous process, and I felt that I have developed a very good system. Once a year, I will audit my seed, which allowed me to make sure that they are still good (each type of seed is my own. end date) Count what I had done before giving more orders. But although it did this, I needed to start from scratches every year, because since my stock was planted.
Cedtime understands that, and so its inventory system allows you to enter all your seeds, but also note how much you have, and where they come from when they are finished. Cedtime connects that information to the app elsewhere in the app, so when you note that you have applied radish, it eliminates your list of radish seeds. You can also tie an item in the inventory in functions or a specific garden.
This is not just seed: in seeds, you can store information about any garden input, from fertilizers, from pest treatments, seeding or potting mix. I am happy when Seedtime reminded me to order more plant tags this year, as it was able to determine that I was too out before feeling it.
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A better garden layout planner
Garden layout tool in seedtime
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Garden planner is the feature that can actually sell you on seedtime. If you struggle with planning your garden bed, this app has detected it. You start with an empty garden plan, and tell seedtime what the dimensions of the garden are, then the dimensions of each bed within your garden.
Next, you draw crops from the list you set in the calendar, and draw them to the layout of the garden. Each crop requires a specified size, which you set in the crop section, but you can replace it on the layout panel; Cedtime will sync data into both panels.
You can quickly move things and understand properly how much room you have for additional crops, see which crops you still need to find a place, or check your progress at a glance as you are planting. Layers tools will help you plan for succession planting and seasonal planting, also – you can see where you will replace crops and when you change them, and what will happen.
Plan your garden on desktop or mobile
One of the best aspects of seedtime is that I can access it on mobile and desktop. For repeated tasks such as entering inventory, or a mouse is useful, such as making garden layout, desktop app is invaluable. But while staying in the garden, information and handness of everything on my phone is necessary. Many apps do not offer both options.
The app is free, but if you need it then you can pay for more functionality
There is something in seedtime Pricing level, One in which is completely independent. Even on free plan, you will have access to calendering, tasks and magazines with limited data related to each item. For $ 7 per month, you can store additional data, so that you can add crop categories, custom functions and perennial crops. At that level, you get the layout tool and access to the journal. For $ 9 per month, you get access to the inventory tool.
The app has recently added AI features that will suggest crops that will do well in your growing area, suggest fellow plants for whatever is already in your garden, or offer the dates of the succession planting. The AI Tool is based on Access Credit, so free accounts get 10 credits, $ 7 tier becomes 100, and $ 9 tier gets unlimited credit per month.
