I built Plant Planner because every gardening app I tried assumed I lived in Vermont or Yorkshire. The "spring" planting calendar would arrive in March. The frost dates were three months wrong. The recommended varieties wouldn't survive a Sydney summer.

My partner and I were running three raised beds and a worm farm, trying to feed our family of four something we'd grown, and constantly missing planting windows because the spreadsheet I'd cobbled together kept lying to me about when to start seedlings. The brassicas went in too late, the tomatoes too early, and we ended up at the nursery in October buying things we should have been raising from seed.

So I built the tool I wanted. Plant Planner uses your Australian postcode to detect your climate zone, your frost dates, your rainfall pattern. It runs the ABS figures on what an actual Australian family eats and tells you how many tomato plants you actually need (it's more than you think). It draws your bed top-down with real plant spacing so you can see whether your six broccoli will actually fit before you commit.

The signature is the bed diagram — every garden plan you've ever seen on the internet is a photograph of a finished garden. Ours is a drawing of yours, before you've planted it.

It's free for two beds. We charge for more beds, email reminders, and yield tracking because those are the features long-term gardeners actually use — and those small monthly subscriptions are what keep Plant Planner running.

If something's broken, or you want a feature, or you just want to say hi: my email is on the contact link below and it comes straight to me — not a bot.

— Daniel

Built in Australia, for Australian gardens.