From the mailbag
You told us. We fixed it.
Every note a gardener sends gets read by a person, and the good ones change the product, usually within days. This page is the running record: what you said, and what we did about it. Thank you to everyone named below.
Hayley wrote
July 2026
“My first bed had Bok Choy and Kale recommended, and I wanted to change but it told me this was optimal. We don't eat either of these.”
Onboarding now asks what your household won't eat before the first plan is drawn, the plan screen lets you boot any crop with one tap, and removing a crop from a bed can now teach us to never suggest it again. The maths follows your table, not ours.
John wrote
July 2026
“Using the maps to draw the garden and boundaries was frustrating.”
We built Trace, a new mode on the garden layout page. Tap out your bed's real outline corner by corner, on grid paper or over the aerial photo of your own backyard, type in tape-measure lengths edge by edge, and every bed visual draws the true shape.
Patrick wrote
July 2026
“Setting up my first bed, I wish you could override how close vegetables are.”
You can now. Every planting takes Intensive, Standard or Generous spacing, or an exact centimetre figure, and the how-many-fit maths recalculates live. Tight planting gets a friendly note about watering, never a lecture.
Ryan wrote
July 2026
“Pumpkin needs more room than my whole bed, so the app wouldn't let me add it at all, and then the coach told me my empty bed was too full.”
Sprawling crops can now be added to any bed with an honest note about how far they'll wander, they show up in the Yield Tracker like everything else, and the coach stopped inventing capacity problems it had no data for.
Mishca wrote
July 2026
“I grow in pots and couldn't plan without a raised bed. And I just wanted to know when to sow things.”
Pots are now a first-class growing space, and the sowing calendar works with no bed at all, pick your crops and get a twelve-month sow, plant and harvest chart for your climate zone.
Arne wrote
July 2026
“The calendar showed my fruit trees being harvested the same month I planted them.”
Establishment perennials, fruit trees, berries, asparagus, rhubarb, now show honest first-crop timelines measured in years, with proper harvest windows once they're established.
Sharon wrote
June 2026
“I couldn't add crops to a bed that already had some, and crops for next season kept showing as growing now.”
Every bed now has an add-crops button no matter how full it is, future-season plantings default to Planned instead of Growing, and if we don't stock a crop you grow, you can add your own.
Sara wrote
June 2026
“A heatwave cooked my seedlings and the app never mentioned it.”
The dashboard weather banner now calls out heat and frost protection days with practical covering advice, and Grower accounts get the same warnings by email before the day hits.
Chris wrote
July 2026
“I bought the lifetime plan and the app kept telling me my plan was about to end.”
Fixed the billing logic that confused a one-off lifetime purchase with an expiring subscription, and corrected every affected account. Lifetime means lifetime.
Got a gripe? A wish? Tell us.
Write to Daniel directly at daniel@plantplanner.com.au. If it changes the product, you'll end up on this page.
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