A garden planner app built around your own frost dates

What you can do in this garden planner

Use the planner as a simple garden calendar for a raised bed, patio pots, or another growing area. It includes starter reminders for tomatoes, carrots, green beans, and salad greens. You can add one-off tasks, label them with an area name, mark work complete, and see the remaining schedule grouped by month.

Garden Week is a task planner rather than a visual bed-design tool. It does not choose crops for you or look up a planting zone. You decide which dates and crops fit your space, seed packets, and local growing advice.

Set up a vegetable planting calendar

1. Look up typical last-spring and first-fall frost dates for your area using a local university extension or other trusted regional source.
2. Enter those dates in Garden Week. The app starts with example dates, so replace them with estimates that make sense for your garden.
3. Add a crop preset to create broad reminders relative to the frost dates you entered. Review each reminder and adjust your plan for the variety, seed packet, soil, weather, and microclimate.
4. Add custom jobs such as preparing a bed, refreshing containers, or checking a row. Use an area label to distinguish a bed, pot, or balcony.
5. Mark finished tasks complete, then export the dates you still need as an ICS calendar file.

Plan repeat sowings with dates you choose

For a crop you want to sow more than once, enter its name, the first and last sowing dates, and a whole-day interval. The planner adds a task at each interval up to the last date. For example, you can record a follow-up row every two weeks if that matches the timing recommended for your crop and growing conditions.

This repeat-sowing tool schedules the dates you enter; it does not calculate crop maturity, harvest windows, weather, or frost risk. Check seed-packet spacing and regional advice before choosing the range and interval.

Export the plan to your calendar

When you export, Garden Week downloads an ICS file containing scheduled tasks that are not marked complete. Import that file into a calendar app that supports ICS to keep reminders alongside other events. Export is a one-time download; changing your garden plan later does not update an already imported calendar automatically.

Use local guidance for planting decisions

Frost dates are planning estimates, not a current forecast. Garden Week does not look up your ZIP code or location, read live weather, or know your soil temperature. Local terrain, sunlight, wind, moisture, and protective covers can affect planting dates. Check current conditions before planting or transplanting, and use advice from your own region when available.

For seed-start timing and repeat planting ideas, read the vegetable sowing calendar guide. For outdoor timing around frost estimates, see the vegetable planting calendar guide.