This app focuses on planting a garden. The user can plan his or her plot, creating a space up to 50×50 squares, keep track of what they planted where, and make notes on progress. It’s $3.99 and available for iOS.
If you’re serious about bringing mobile into your gardening pursuits, Garden Plan Pro wraps up just about everything — weather info, planning capabilities, tracking, alerts, and even advice on things like crop rotation. It’s $7.99 and available for iOS.
If you’re particularly focused on growing vegetables, then this app will provide info on harvesting, bugs that affect vegetables. Plus, the app has Facebook and Twitter integration. It’s $3.99 and available for iOS.
Gardening ToolKit hopes to do so much more than what even your favorite gardening book can do. It gives location-based planting advice, allows you to keep track of multiple gardens, tracks flower blooming, vegetable harvesting, and comes with a 1000-plant database, as well as a gardening glossary. The one bummer, which is actually good news for international readers — it’s not available in the US. Otherwise, it’s available for iOS.
Your plants shouldn’t suffer because you’ve got an unreliable memory. Garden Manager will let you set up alarms to remind you to water or fertilize your plants. You can also keep a log of your plants, including photos and notes. It’s available for Android, free.
Something’s gone awry with your leaves, but you’re not sure what. This app can help you identify it and figure out how to restore health to your plants. Just take a photo and submit it through the app. A team of horticulture experts will get back to you. It’s free and available for iOS.
Apart from some of the usual features, Gardenate includes a wishlist to help you keep track of what you’d like to plant, and a calendar for your planning dates. You can also sync your gardening notes to other mobile devices, or print them as PDFs. It’s $.99 and available for Android.
Parrot Flower Power is actually a sensor you can stick in a pot that monitors sun, moisture, temperature, and fertilizer. It pairs with an app, so when your plant needs water, for example, it sends an alert to your phone. The sensor costs $59. The app is compatible with both Android and iOS.
iGarden USA has some of the usual features — plant tracking, note taking — but also has integrated weather alerts, recommendations for pest remedies, and a cloud function that allows users to share info with other users in the same climate zone. It’s available for Android and iOS, $4.99.
Not sure what you’re looking at? This electronic field guide uses visual recognition software to tell you. It’s free and available for iOS with Android coming soon.
Erin Carson is a Staff Reporter for CNET and a former Multimedia Editor for TechRepublic.
