Grow Your Own

If you are looking for a concept app that is headed in the right direction this is it. There is a great deal of room before it becomes useful and that explains the freeness of it. Would love to fund this app becoming useful but it says they are part of a society so hopefully by versions 3 or so this will be a asset to life. Right now it's just fun to try out and lacking a few features to make it pragmatic. (1) It needs a robust food plant database. Perhaps select the plants from online and download the ones to use offline and reduce local data size. Too few currently. (2) Way to share the selections with other tools. (3) New interface for tossing plant choices into grow bin. (4) Way to know how much to plant for how many people and let them choose to scale up or down but default to that many plants, and list area required by plant sq. ft. ratings. Meaning allow for sq. ft. gardening concepts. (5) Allow data to cover different planting zones. (6) On an iPad version it would be cool to have different planting zones [row gardens, sq. ft. gardens, earth boxes, etc.] and help plant. (7) List the companion planting guides, don't plant twice in same location guides, desease care guides. (or links to these for online ref.)

This is a good application for those working on a simple backyard garden or urban farm plot. My family and I use it regularly to help us with ours. I particularly like the To Do feature that has been added recently. The planting and harvesting cycles are helpful for planning out a garden. The common problems information has been helpful too. The RHS has done very well with their descriptions of plants and I appreciate that that they used both metric and imperial units. Alternately I wish the RHS would add a planner function with the next upgrade. In a planner, I would like information on possible winter planting that would compliment plants that I have chosen. Also, any other off season preparation would be nice. It would also be very helpful to be able to enter the date planted for the particular plants in my garden and then to have to To Do list time-line updated specific to my individual garden. Currently the To Do list is a generic list based on the particular plants. Admittedly, this has still been very useful, but having a bit of personalization on this feature would take this application from good to great. Overall, this is a helpful application that continues to aid ou.r family. I look forward to updates and the addition of more plants. The free version is good, but it is worth paying for the full version.

This app is very easy to use and great for the beginning home gardener. It needs a lot more plants though, and a way to determine suitability of plants based on the location of the user (I'm not sure whether or not the paid app has that feature since I have not purchased it yet - I would for sure if it had more plants).

I wanted to start a garden and didn't know where to begin. This app helped me narrow down what I should plant for the amount of time I have. I look forward to future updates. All you haters go hate somewhere else. This is great for a first version app. Keep up. The good work!

I am a degreed Horticulturists. I find this app to be very useful for a home garden. I agree there is a lack of plants but the ease of use and amount of information that is provided for the plants they do have is wonderful. Download, give it time, this will be an awesome app. A+ great job.