I’ve been using this app for several years. I’ve got the full package, and use it to plan my layouts every spring. Let me tell you that I’ve never experienced any of the issues a lot of you are complaining about. It’s all in English. I’ve never seen this German that some are complaining about. You can add plants not on the list, and have multiple varieties of the same plants. There’s a whole lot more that everyone is complaining about that are user issues, not software issues. The only issue I’ve seen that I can understand why some people are complaining about is not being able change the zone. I happen to live in 7b, so it applies to me. But there’s tons of potential users that live outside of 7-8. Surely that’s not rocket science to add it.

**READ BEFORE PURCHASE** This app has potential but it seems as if the developers just threw it together. First off, when you download and pay for the app, you have to pay for different aspects of the app or else it will be useless. This seems like a sneaky way of getting customers to pay more for the app, multiple times. There is only a small list of vegetables to choose from and the developers curiously omitted some popular vegetables. You can add plants but you have to do your own research to add them which kind of defeats the purpose. Additionally, for some reason parts of the app are in German! You can create your own garden bed but it must be perfectly square. If you have a different shaped bed, you cannot use the plotting feature. When plotting the plants, the type of plant is in such a small font that you cannot see it without zooming in. This is annoying when trying to see the big picture. Often times when zooming or scrolling through the plot you end up accidentally moving the plants around. You cannot scroll all the way down either, the bottom of the screen is cut-off which is very frustrating. The only positive is the ability to quickly figure out companion plants. If I had to do it again I would definitely not purchase I wish I read the comments before. Save your money until they put some effort into the app but it doesn’t seem likely because the same complaints have been present for years.

I think this is a great concept but I can’t finish with over half of the veggies and herbs I plan on planting missing. I realize I have the same complaint as most but really would love to see more varieties added. More squashes, okra, peppers etc. It would be neat to see suggestions for companion flowers as well. As for the climate, yes it would be nice to be able to choose a region and have more accurate information. If it were me I would just remove that part of the app until it could be improved. I would also have to agree with others that being able to edit the size of the beds would be nice. It took me forever to finally figure out how to at least delete one so I could fix it. Additionally it would be cool to be able to map out multiple beds in one screen to see the bigger picture. Also maybe a way to be able to see which plants and how many you’ve used from your list and which ones are left. Again this product seems like it has potential, just isn’t there yet.

Free to download, but costs $3.99 to use it. I went ahead and paid because I really like how the app lets you add your plants in the garden and tells you if they are good together or not, and includes the size of the plant. One thing it is lacking, though, is the capability to have multiple separate gardens. You can only have one garden. In real life, I’d like to make boxed gardens so that I can group together the plants that do well together. Or at least if they added a feature to draw a box inside the garden. Another thing I would like to see them add is a chart that shows which plants prefer shade and which prefer sun, or incorporate it into the garden layout plan. (I did see that you can sort your veggies according to “light needs” which does help.)Also add more plants and flowers! Cantaloupe, summer squash, cherry tomatoes, cilantro are a few plants not included. But they do have the option to add custom veggies, which is nice.Add those features or lower the price and then I’ll give it 5 stars.I would like to add that the reason I was looking for an app like this where I could plan the layout of my garden without thinking about it and without knowing all the plant information is because I am new to gardening and have no clue what I am doing and I did not want to take the time to search out every single plant. The more the app does for me, the better.