Dirt Smart
Plan it. Plant it. Pick it.
Draw your garden to scale, then let it help all season: frost dates and planting times for your area, sun and shade, companion plants, soil, crop rotation, watering and harvests.
Start my garden Three quick questions, and your first bed is planted. Explore a sample garden Poke around a planted garden first. Yours stays separate.
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How Dirt Smart works ×
Getting started
Set your location on the Map tab (search your address). That brings in your hardiness zone, frost dates and weather.Make your garden space: trace it on the satellite map, or type its size in the editor.Add beds: "+ Add a bed or area", or Draw one by clicking its corners. Type sizes like 4' 6" or 54in.Plant: pick a plant in the Plants list, then click inside a bed. Circles show the room each plant needs.
Handy tools
Smart fill (a bed's details): plant a whole theme, tall plants to the north.Garden check : tap Space out , Move apart or Move to sun to fix a problem in one go.Calendar → Add to my calendar : your planting dates in Google, Apple or Outlook calendar. The soil temperature there says when seeds will sprout.Notebook : Seed starting (trays, sowing and hardening-off dates), Photos (a weekly photo time-lapse), Materials (cut lists and what to buy) and the Season report .Garden menu : Share a link (your location stays private unless you choose), and Print plant labels with QR codes.Water : add your Water source (faucet or well), Garden hoses and Drip lines from + Add a bed or area . Hose ends click onto a faucet. Notebook → Water → Drip system designer lays out the shortest supply line to every planted bed, drip lines spaced for your soil, zones, a priced parts list and timer settings, and can add it all to your plan.Fruit trees and perennials : click one to set the year it went in; it tells you when it'll crop and what care each month needs. In Watch it grow , pick +3 yrs , +5 yrs or +10 yrs to see how big they'll get, and the sun-hours map shows the shade they'll cast then.Planted it today (a plant's details): marks the day it really went in, so the calendar, reminders and harvest dates follow what you did. It's noted in your journal too.Calendar → What can I plant today? : what can go in now (or within two weeks) for your frost dates and soil temperature, seeds you own first, with room in your beds. Plant it takes you straight there.Notebook → Water → The week ahead : which days to water each bed or drip zone, skipping days the rain does it for you, and how long your rain barrels last.Old seeds? In Notebook → Seeds , tap Test it to do a quick sprout test; the shopping list then allows for the seeds that won't come up.Does it pay for itself? Log what you spend as a Spent journal entry; Notebook → Harvests compares it with what your harvest would cost at the store.Decks, steps and arches : in + Add a bed or area , pick Deck / patio , Garden steps or Arch / arbor . Set the height for how high the deck is or how far the steps rise.Several plants at once : Shift-click plants, drag a box with Shift held, or (on a phone) tap Select several plants and tap them. Then mark them all planted , or log what you picked in one go.How did it do? (a plant's details): a 👍 / 👎 and a note. Next year it pops up when you plant that again.Seed packets : in Notebook → Seeds , type what's on the packet (like "Sungold cherry tomato") and press Enter; it works out the plant and keeps the variety name.Something wrong with a plant? Notebook → Pests → What do you see? : tap what it looks like for the likely causes and fixes.Calendar : By bed shows what's in each bed all year (and when it sits empty); Print this month makes a checklist for the fridge. On frost nights it lists each bed to cover and the size of frost cloth.Garden menu : Back up everything saves all your gardens to one file (do it now and then); Save a picture to share makes an image of your plan.Anywhere in the world : outside the US, frost dates, zone and the forecast come from 10 years of local weather records (Open-Meteo).Keyboard : click the plan, then Tab / Shift+Tab steps through beds, arrow keys move them, Delete removes, Esc clears.
Beds and shapes
Drag a bed to move it; drag its round knob to turn it (it snaps in line with your garden). Drag corner dots to reshape, or the small bar in the middle of a side to push that whole side out or in; right-click a corner to remove it, double-click an edge to add one. Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V copy and paste, Ctrl+Z undoes. Turn on Square-foot grid in a bed's details to plant by the square.
Paths bend: select a path and drag the + past either end to keep it going, or the small + in the middle of a stretch to bend it. If a bed or shed is in the way, the path goes around it on its own (hold Alt while dragging to go straight through). Drag the big dot at either end to stretch or swing that end, or the bars on its sides to make it wider or narrower. Right-click a bend's dot to remove it.
Path materials: pick gravel, mulch, pavers, brick, stepping stones, concrete or grass in the path's details. Drop a path's end on another path of the same material and they join into one; different materials stay separate.
Plants and companions
The Garden check lists anything worth knowing: crowding, shade, companions, soil and rotation. Click a plant for its good and bad neighbors. Edit plant list changes spacing and timing, adds your own plants, or starts from a popular variety. Each plant's 3D look can be changed there too.
Sun, shade and layers
Layers ▾ adds information over your plan: Sun hours (a heat map of daily sun, with "Find best spots" for any plant), Sun & shade for any date and time, wind, bed health, and last season's plants. Draw your house as a structure and big trees as Shade tree so their shadows count.
3D view
3D view shows your garden in 3D. Drag to spin, right-drag to slide, scroll to zoom. Grow plays the season so plants grow, flower and fruit on their real schedule; Sun moves the sun.
Calendar, seasons and soil
The Calendar shows what to do now, the planting timeline, your forecast, and the season's warmth (with pests timed by it). Each bed's details have a soil card (with amounts to add) and its crop history. Start next year saves this year for crop rotation; the ‹ › arrows switch between years.
Notebook
Log notes, photos, harvests, pests and watering in the Journal . Harvests adds up what you picked; Seeds & shopping makes your seed list; Water says whether to water today; Materials totals soil and lumber; Pests & diseases is a guide with organic fixes.
Your gardens, phone and offline
Add more gardens from the garden menu at the top (each has its own location and history). Install app puts it on your home screen, and it works offline. Your gardens are saved in this browser: use the garden menu → Save this garden as a file to back up or move a garden to another device.
Numbers (spacing, timing, amounts) are typical values from seed packets and university extension guides. Your seed packet and local extension office know best. · Privacy
