Fixed: planting cards in frost-free places no longer talk about spring. In south Florida, coastal southern California, the Rio Grande Valley, the Mississippi delta and Hawaii, the first frost of the year falls before the last one — there is no winter for spring and autumn to sit either side of. The app was heading the December half of south Florida's October-to-January broccoli season "Spring planting". Those cards now read "First sowing" and "Second sowing", named for the order they actually happen in. 37,131 windows were affected. The small season tag beside a card's title is gone. Everywhere the seasons mean something it printed the word the title already said, and where they mean nothing it was the reason the title could not say anything true. The tab you are on is now obvious. Home, Plants, Natives, My garden and Settings were separated only by two shades of green, which at the size of a tab bar is almost no difference at all. The selected one now sits on a filled shape, with its label in a heavier weight. Fixed, Android: taking or choosing a photograph could fail with a wall of Java text. When Android reclaims memory it destroys the screen behind the camera, and the picker it had registered goes with it. The app now waits for the screen to come back and tries once more, which is usually the end of it — and if it still cannot, it says so in a sentence. Fixed: the note under a plant with two sowings said the later one "matures as the weather cools". That describes a northern autumn. In south Florida the later sowing is cut in February and March, into a season that is warming.

New: share the best varieties for your area as a picture. Open a plant, find "Best varieties for…", and tap Share. Autumn planting now says what you actually do. Where a window used to read "Fall planting" whatever the job was, it now tells you whether to sow it, plant it out, or both — and when to start the seed indoors so the plants are ready in time. 571 plants gained the sowing dates they were missing. The app knew when to plant them out and not when to start the seed. It knows both now. Fixed: a variety's description could stop mid-sentence when you opened it. The text was always complete — the card was measuring itself at the wrong width and cutting off the last line or two. Variety lists are cleaner. Entries that carried a name and nothing else are gone, and 212 more now carry a description, days to maturity and the zones they suit. Fixed: a plant that is planted in autumn no longer says its planting window is missing. Tulip, Daffodil, Crocus, Hyacinth, Garlic and seventeen others showed an amber "missing from our data" note on the spring card while the card directly below it held the real date. Nothing was ever missing. Fixed: sprouts and microgreens said the same thing, for a different reason. A sprouting lentil is grown in a jar on the worktop — there is no outdoor planting window to record, and the card now says that instead of apologising for a gap. Fixed: the Deadhead and Prune chips on the schedule chart could be switched on and had nothing to show. Those dates were in the database and were not being sent to the app. In California alone that is 1,756 pruning windows and 951 deadheading windows that existed and could not be seen. The shade filter is now labelled "Full shade", because it means full shade. It used to say "Shade" and return plants that only want part shade — which will not grow in a dark corner. The behaviour was corrected for everybody last week; this is the label catching up. Opening the seed tray and the "track a plant" sheet no longer re-downloads the whole plant list. They now share what the Plants tab already has. Fixed: a plant with one sowing no longer says it has two. Elephant Garlic and twenty-two others showed a spring card carrying only a flowering time, and the page read "Two sowings a year" beneath it — when the only sowing is in autumn. The page no longer claims the spring sowing is the main crop. Where the summer is hot enough to bolt a cool-season crop, the autumn sowing is the one that matters, and the card already says so for the plants and places where that is true.

The Plants tab now opens with what you can actually do this week — sow outdoors, plant now, transplant — as a row of chips with a count beside each. Tap one and the whole tab narrows to those plants. Sowing is split into the four things it really means, in plain words instead of one lane: starting seed indoors, sowing straight into the ground, planting out what you started, and autumn sowing. A crop you can do more than one way now shows each of them. An autumn sowing is filed as the job it is rather than by the season it lands in, so a crop you sow in September appears when you would actually be doing it — not filed away under spring. Flowering times for around fifty plants that had none, mostly natives, shrubs and bulbs. The deadheading windows that hang off them came back at the same time. Fixed: on the Identify a plant screen, "Take a photo" and "Choose a photo" could do nothing at all — no picker, no error — on phones short of memory. Android was closing the screen behind the camera and the photograph was being dropped on the way back. Fixed: getting back out of a plant category. On Android the system back button used to leave the tab altogether; on iPhone there was no way back except scrolling up to find the button. A swipe from the left edge works now, and back goes back. Fixed: the chips on This Week read in season order and no longer repeat themselves.

A plant with no planting window recorded for your zone now says so, instead of showing nothing and leaving you to guess whether it was the app or the season. It is named as a gap in our data, which is what it is. A plant that can only be grown indoors where you garden no longer describes itself as going outdoors. The row reads "Pot it on · indoors", and the indoor year-round bar says plainly that it is not a planting window. Searching for a plant is usable with the keyboard open. The spacing note and the recent plants used to hold the top of the sheet while the keyboard held the bottom, leaving no room for the results you were typing to find. Fixed: a plant sown twice in the same bed was listed twice in the shared plan, and each row counted every square of that plant — so the plan claimed twice the crop.

Identify a plant from a photograph. You get the likeliest matches with reference pictures you can open full screen and swipe through, and for anything in the ZoneSprout catalogue, whether it is native where you garden, whether it carries a local warning, and when to plant it. My favourites now reads as a shortlist: how many grow here, how many can go in now, how many have gone for this year — and the whole year drawn on one strip. Tap any count to see just those plants. The Plants tab could crash the second time you opened My favourites. Searching inside My favourites now searches your favourites, instead of the whole catalogue. Attract wildlife can be narrowed by what kind of plant you want — herbs, privacy hedges, fragrant plants and the rest. Screens that load a list now take shape instead of showing a spinner.

Tapping "Schedule chart" left the plant list on screen with a small spinner beside it, so the tap looked like it had not worked. The chart also re-downloaded the plant list it already had. Searching the native plant list closed the keyboard after one character. The search box was being rebuilt the moment you typed, so the field you were typing into disappeared. Search now puts the plant you named first. Typing "tomato" listed Tomato last, behind anything with a tomato variety in it. Every plant in a seed tray drew the same carrot. The tray was showing the category's icon instead of the plant's own drawing, so Tomato, Broccoli and Onion were identical. Germination times were missing from the sow screen. They were in the database the whole time. On an iPad in portrait, the end of the planting bar ran off the edge of the screen — taking the only two ways out of planting mode with it. The chart's search box shrank to fit whatever you had typed. Signing out could leave the app still showing Pro until something asked the server. It now finds out straight away. Searching for a variety works properly: ask for "cherry tomato" and you get one.

Search now puts the plant you named first. Typing "tomato" listed Tomato last, behind anything with a tomato variety in it. Fixed the search bar in the Native Plant section. It was previously closing the keyboard after first key strike. Every plant in a seed tray drew the same carrot. The tray was showing the category's icon instead of the plant's own drawing, so Tomato, Broccoli and Onion were identical. Germination times were missing from the sow screen. They were in the database the whole time. On an iPad in portrait, the end of the planting bar ran off the edge of the screen — taking the only two ways out of planting mode with it. The chart's search box shrank to fit whatever you had typed. Signing out could leave the app still showing Pro until something asked the server. It now finds out straight away. Searching for a variety works properly: ask for "cherry tomato" and you get one.