!!!!!!!!!!!! Garden planner with permanent plant tracking

Hi permies! I built Leaftide because I couldn't find a garden planner that handled both annual veg and the permanent stuff: fruit trees, berry bushes and perennials.

For permanent plantings it:
- Tracks each tree, bush or perennial year after year, with its seasonal stages (bud break, flowering, fruit set, harvest, leaf fall) and care reminders like pruning and feeding.
- Learns your garden's timing. If you log that your raspberries flowered two weeks late, their fruit set and harvest dates move with them.
- Keeps a care log for every plant, so next year you know what you pruned, fed or divided, and when.

For the rest of the garden:
- Annual veg planned around your own frost dates.
- A garden map you draw yourself, with beds, pots, trees and structures.
- About 1,300 plant types. If one is missing, ask here and I'll add it.



It works in the browser and on iPhone and Android. It's free for up to 30 permanent plants and 15 seasonal plantings, with Pro if you need more.

My own garden in the app: https://app.leaftide.com/g/joao/
Website: Leaftide.com

I'm still building it based on feedback, so questions, suggestions and plant requests are all welcome.

Joao

Just made a quick account to poke around, I still don't have my desktop unpacked at my new spot but once I do I plan to play with it a lot more and see what I can do with it but it seems like a very cool tool. I love the concept of having a digital tool to track relevant garden dates for your specific plot over time. Thanks for making this and sharing it. I'll try to offer useful feedback as I mess with it more this month.

s. lowe wrote:Just made a quick account to poke around, I still don't have my desktop unpacked at my new spot but once I do I plan to play with it a lot more and see what I can do with it but it seems like a very cool tool. I love the concept of having a digital tool to track relevant garden dates for your specific plot over time. Thanks for making this and sharing it. I'll try to offer useful feedback as I mess with it more this month.

Thanks so much for this, it's still early stages so I'm very much looking forward for people to use it and tell me the positives and the negatives. Also accepting feature requests of course.

Hey folks, quick update since I posted this.
I've raised the free tier limits — you now get 30 permanent plants and 15 seasonal plantings before hitting the paywall. Felt like the original limits were too tight for anyone seriously trying it out.
I've also been using it daily on my own garden, so here's a look at how it works in practice with real data: https://app.leaftide.com/g/joao/

Still actively developing, feedback and feature requests always welcome.

Quick update for October: I've been adding a lot of plant types over the past few months, mostly driven by what users are actually searching for. Added over 50 new species including fruit trees, UK and US native plants, cape bulbs, and forage plants. If you tried searching for something before and got nothing, worth trying again. Still free up to 30 permanent plants and 15 seasonal plantings.

Hi Joao,
Your app is really interesting and quite multifunctional!
I tried it for the first time, and I have a suggestion; is there a way to initially just choose "plum tree", "apple tree" etc., and come back to those later, when everything is more or less in place?
As a first time user of the app, I'd like to play around with it first, see what it can do 'in the rough' and come back to the more specific things, like the exact (or approximate) types of plants, later.
For example: Step 1: Drawing out the rough outlines, putting in structures and plants in their (approximately right) places
Step 2: Refining - putting the right names to the fruit trees and other plants.
I hope this comes across as positive, constructive feedback, because that's how I'm intending it to be!

Nina Surya wrote:Hi Joao,
Your app is really interesting and quite multifunctional!
I tried it for the first time, and I have a suggestion; is there a way to initially just choose "plum tree", "apple tree" etc., and come back to those later, when everything is more or less in place?
As a first time user of the app, I'd like to play around with it first, see what it can do 'in the rough' and come back to the more specific things, like the exact (or approximate) types of plants, later.
For example: Step 1: Drawing out the rough outlines, putting in structures and plants in their (approximately right) places
Step 2: Refining - putting the right names to the fruit trees and other plants.
I hope this comes across as positive, constructive feedback, because that's how I'm intending it to be!

Hi Nina,
Thanks, it does come across as positive, and it's useful to hear from someone trying the app for the first time.
You can already work that way, because nothing you add is locked in. For step 1, add "Apple" or "Plum" and don't pick a variety. It goes in as the standard variety, and the app uses general timings for that plant until you tell it more. Draw your beds and structures roughly and drop the plants where they'll probably go.
For step 2, when the layout feels about right, open any plant and set its variety, its planting date or a name. You can also drag plants, beds and structures around in the designer as often as you like.
If something in the app made it feel like you had to choose everything up front, I'd like to know where that was so I can fix it.
Joao

Thank you for the guidelines Joao!
I guess I was making it too complicated for myself, trying to be too precise from the get-go. I came across a lot of fruit tree varieties and thought I should pick one. I ran out of time, and because I was trying to get everything perfect as I was building, I lost a bit of courage.
Now I have your advice to go back to it and build on.

Thanks again for your helpful reply!

I haven't used it enough to give app related feedback, but wanted to let you know that your activeness in its development and community has led me to get the lifetime pro.

Keep up the good work and don't let me regret it

Matthew Muhlig wrote:I haven't used it enough to give app related feedback, but wanted to let you know that your activeness in its development and community has led me to get the lifetime pro.

Keep up the good work and don't let me regret it

Oohhh amazing!!
Thanks so much for the support!

Still in the starting phase of hashing things out but very impressed with the overall setup.  
All but two of the plant I needed were already in the plant list, and the two I needed were very specific natives so not surprised I didn't see them. (This got patched for the new plants within hours of the suggestion)
Blocks are very nice feature, and love that you can set the watering alerts to specific groupings instead of most apps that tell me to water everything.
The logs for each plant will be tremendously helpful with observing and looking for patterns, and while next season is going to be the first for me with this I look forward to seeing how close the predictions are year over year.



Anyone who reads this thread, I would recommend it!
This is great as is, I am looking forward to seeing how it develops over time!

Thanks Matthew, that means a lot, both the lifetime Pro and the write-up. Glad those two natives are in now. I'm curious how the predictions hold up for you next season, because that's the part I most want to get right.

(For anyone new here: I've updated the first post with current screenshots.)