SOW - A Planting Companion 4+
Alabama Cooperative Extension System
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
The “SOW – A Planting Companion” app is designed to tell you the optimum time to plant crops in your home garden. Choose your location and start planting. Tap the photo of a crop to see more information:
• Estimated days to harvest
• Estimated yield per plant
• Spacing between plants
• Planting depth below ground level
• Suggested varieties
• Special notes as needed
The Alabama Cooperative Extension System, University of Kentucky, and North Carolina A&T State University Extension have partnered to provide crop and planting information for growing zones 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, and 9a. If you would like to see your state/zone in this app, contact Alabama Extension at acesapp@auburn.edu.
What’s New
Version 5
This is a major app update. This new installation will overwrite garden data from the previous version of the app. To retain your current planted garden data, we recommend making notes of current crop names and planting dates and manually reentering the data after the update is installed.
This update includes planting data from the University of Kentucky, the ability to create multiple gardens, and a journal function to keep track of previously harvested crops, to name a few.
Ratings and Reviews
I want to love this app...but
I really do want to love it. But I don’t have access to add crops that aren’t “recommended” such as pineberry, for example, or even the herbs that I plant. Also, the app keeps “forgetting” that I’ve previously logged in, so therefore, any crops planted are gone. I have to keep a hard copy to remember when they were planted.
Please help by fixing these issues so I can give it the five stars I want to.
Developer Response ,
We are in the process of releasing a MAJOR update to this app. Will fix the major bugs, add additional states, multiple gardens and a journal function for harvested crops. Thank you!
Gardener
I have thoroughly enjoyed using the SOW app for planting dates for my vegetable garden!! It can be used throughout Alabama for determining planting dates of both vegetables and fruits by simply selecting your county. This app uses science instead if old sayings. I have recommended it to several people and will continue to do. It also has other useful aides like asking an expert, gardening basics, and an app tutorial.
Needs improvement but will use as a reference.
Need to be able to add notes to crops already planted . Also alerts and notifications on upcoming harvest dates or when to fertilize or even when new crops become available . would be good. Also won’t let me add some crops to my garden crashes occasionally.
Developer Response ,
We are in the process of releasing a MAJOR update to this app. Will fix the major bugs, add additional states, multiple gardens and a journal function for harvested crops. Thank you!
App Privacy
The developer, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Alabama Cooperative Extension System
- Size
- 178.9 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 www.aces.edu
- Price
- Free