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The best-tasting food never makes it to a store shelf. Verdantly teaches you what grows well in your area and how to care for your garden from seed to harvest.
What should you be planting right now?
Your planting calendar
Your whole season, on one page.
Enter a ZIP code and you get your real growing season: frost dates and a window for every crop, on one line that holds what you planted, what needs doing today, and the harvests ahead.
Good morning, Selene
● Thursday, October 1
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” · Audrey Hepburn
● 8 Growing · ● 4 Harvesting · ● 12 Planned · ● 1 Garden · 16 picks this season
⊞ Backyard Garden ▾📍 Austin, TX · Zone 9a🔥 46-day streak
Garden Timeline 2026WeekMonthYear‹ Today ›Filter
LOCATION Last frost Feb 20 First frost Dec 3 286-day growing season
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Last frostFirst frost
Vegetables6
Eggplant1
Onion1
Pepper1HARVEST
Tomato3START INDOORS
Herbs2
Basil2START INDOORS
HARVEST
Fruit Trees3
Loquat1
Persimmon2Berries & Vines1
Blackberry1Suggested
CarrotsHARVEST
Kale
Cilantro
Parsley
Strawberries
GarlicThe full year timeline — planting windows, harvests, and every logged moment — is best on a bigger screen (and in the app).
WINDOWSStart indoorsPlant outsideHarvestLOGGED Transplanted Flowering Fruit set
Weather that thinks like a gardener
Soil temperature, fungal risk, rain math, chill hours, and a heads-up before heat waves and pests arrive.
88°
⛅ Mostly cloudy · Austin, TX
Feels 98°
Wind 2 (gusts 6) mph SSW
62% humidity
UV 7 · Very HighSoil 93°Dew 74° · High fungal risk
Today⛅93° 75°Tmrw⛅96° 77°Sun🌤95° 77°Mon☁️92° 77°
RAIN · LAST 7 0.15″NEXT 7 0.01″
.15.01
FSSMTWTFSSMTWT
Two dry weeks. Plants may need 1.5″ more water.
❄️ Chill hours, the last five winters~368 hrs avg
447'21391'22296'23402'24302'25
Buying a fruit tree? Five winters of real chill history, in two models, so you plant varieties that will actually fruit where you live.
GARDEN INSIGHTS · THIS WEEK
Heat wave: 7 days above 90°FWater deeply at dawn, mulch to lock in moisture, and shade tender crops through the afternoon.
Watch for armywormsScout after storms, they ride in on the winds. Check for egg masses and keep bed borders weeded.
Fall planting opens in AugustCantaloupe, watermelon, Brussels sprouts, and potato windows open soon. We’ll nudge you when it’s time.
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The garden designer
Design the garden you dream about.
A real design canvas for your yard, connected to everything else: what you place here becomes the garden your calendar and journal track.
It’s your actual yard
Lay out beds, pots, and trees at real dimensions, around your real house. Plan the garden you have, not a template.
Companions, checked
Every placement is scored against its neighbors, so bad pairings get caught on the canvas instead of in the dirt.
Seasons built in
Your frost dates live on the canvas. Scrub through the months and watch what’s alive in July or bare in January.
The plan becomes the garden
Most planners draw pictures. Here, every plant you place flows into your timeline, reminders, and journal. Design it once, then live in it.
How it works
Better harvests come from three habits.
Plan what’s coming, catch what’s happening, remember what worked. Verdantly connects all three, so each season starts smarter than the last.
Cherokee Purple TomatoPlant now
Transplant window: Mar 15 to Apr 20
Sugar Snap Pea2 weeks left
Direct sow: Jan 25 to Mar 10
Plant at the right moment
Timing is most of gardening. Every variety gets a planting window computed from your frost dates, not a generic map on a seed packet.
Photo identifiedHigh match
Passiflora incarnata · Maypop Passionflower
Know before you squash, spray, or pullBeta
That beetle might be a friend. The mushroom might be harmless. One photo settles it.
Early blight, likelyTreatable
Remove lower leaves, water at the base, mulch
Catch problems while they’re small
Snap a photo to name a plant, an insect, even a mushroom, or to check what’s ailing a crop. Treatments come from our pest and disease library, and one tap saves the case to your journal.
July 28 · Journal
First ripe Angelito fig. My first exotic fig!
Last season · Notes
Basil bolted in July. Shade cloth next year
Get better every season
Photos, notes, and harvests kept year over year. Next spring you’ll know exactly what worked in your yard, because you wrote it down here.
Grow season by season
From your first harvest to your first graft.
Start small, with your first harvest just weeks away. We pick what suits your zone, set the timing, and remind you only when it matters. Each season you take on a little more, and we teach you as you go.
- 1Your first harvest: lettuce and radishes in containers, a few weeks from now
- 2Your first raised bed: building up the soil and planting your first companion combo, the Three Sisters
- 3Your first graft: choosing a rootstock, learning whip and cleft grafts, and the day your scion takes
And when something does not make it? It happens in every garden. That is a week and fifty cents, not a failure. Plant another.
Day 30
Grow your first salad
Lettuce, radishes, and microgreens, from seed
Year 1
Build up your soil
Aeration, drainage, compost, and fertilizer
Year 1
Plant companions together
The Three Sisters: corn, beans, and squash. Basil under the tomatoes, onions beside the carrots
Year 2
Bring in the pollinators
Zinnias for the butterflies, salvia for the hummingbirds, coneflowers for the bees
Year 3
Graft your first tree
A donut peach on Lovell rootstock
Year 3
Build a guild
Comfrey, clover, and chives feeding the young peach
Year 4
Grow your own dragonfruit
Self-fertile vs self-sterile varieties, hand pollination, and building the trellis
Year 5
Bake the peach pie
Thin in spring, pick when they smell like peaches, and bake from the tree you grafted yourself
Learn from trusted sources
Your season is too short for bad advice.
Most gardening advice is generic, generated filler, scattered across the internet. Verdantly gathers what is real from trusted horticultural sources, organizes it so it is easy to digest, and personalizes it for gardeners of every level.
15,000+ varieties440,000+ botanical speciesPest & disease libraryCompanion pairingsFrost dates for every ZIPFive winters of chill hoursPhoto ID & diagnosis
15,000+ varieties, cross-checked
Every variety is compiled from multiple trusted horticultural sources.
Facts, put to work
Verified facts, organized so answers are easy to find, and built into the tools you garden with every day.
One connected garden
The same data runs your calendar, designer, journal, and pest alerts. Plant something once and every view already knows about it.
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Common questions
Before you plant anything.
Is Verdantly free?+–
Yes. Free includes every tool and all the data you need to grow and track your garden year over year. Pro removes the limits and unlocks the power tools: unlimited gardens and journaling, shareable garden plans, PDF exports, and twenty times the photo scans.
Will it work where I live?+–
If you have a US ZIP code, yes. Your frost dates, growing season, and planting windows come from your actual location, not a broad region.
I only have a balcony and some pots. Is this for me?+–
Absolutely. Containers are fully supported, and we actually recommend beginners start there: pots are easier to manage, cheaper to experiment with, and a great way to learn how things grow before you commit to a bed.
How is Verdantly different from other gardening apps?+–
The data. Verdantly is built on 15,000+ growing-ready varieties and more than 440,000 botanical species, verified across trusted horticultural sources, with companions, pests, frost dates, and chill history all connected. Most apps name a plant from a photo or send watering pings on top of a thin plant list. Here, every answer is backed by that library and turns into action: what thrives in your ZIP, when to plant it, and what to do each week from seed to harvest.
Do I need to know my hardiness zone?+–
No. Your ZIP code is enough, and we figure out the rest. You will know your zone soon anyway, because you will see it everywhere.
Does it work outside the US?+–
Not yet. Verdantly is US-only today, and international support is in the works, starting with Canada, the UK, and Australia.
Is there a mobile app?+–
Verdantly works in your phone’s browser today, and native apps are in the works for iOS, Android, and tablets.
PRICING
Start free. Grow with Pro.
The plant explorer, companion data, frost dates, and growing guides are free for everyone. Pro unlocks unlimited gardens and the full toolkit.
Included on every plan
15,000+ plant varieties
80+ data points each, from growing zones to pest risks
440,000+ species
Taxonomy with state distribution maps
Companion planting
Know which plants help or hurt each other
Frost dates & zones
Personalized to your zip code
Growing guides
When to plant, how to care, and when to harvest
Pest & disease reference
60+ pests and diseases with affected plants
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