01 / VARIETY FIELD NOTES
What grew to harvest?
No named varieties with observed harvests yet. Record a variety and its first harvest to begin.
FVF / FIELD NOTESLiving Garden · Free garden planner
A garden is a season, not a snapshot.
The Living Garden.
A living field notebook for the space between planting and harvest. Look ahead through your real bed, then decide what fits next.
YOUR My raised bed · April 202732 of 32 square feet unassigned
Square 2, 3 is unassigned on this date. The planting check below decides what may fit.
Garden plan, not live soil conditions or a promised harvest.THE BED THROUGH TIMEEvery tile represents saved planting occupancy, never an invented crop or photograph.
Select a season to update the actual bed, square details, and planting check together. The larger month ribbon below covers April through October.
01 / Your garden
Start with the actual growing space.
Start with the real bed. Pick a square, travel through the months, and watch the next planting verdict respond. A date on this drawing is a plan, not a promise.
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YOUR SELECTED SQUARE · ROW 2, COLUMN 3 · Apr 15 2027Radish fits this planning window.
No hard conflict was found for the selected square, growing dates and entered assumptions. This is planning feasibility, not a guarantee that outdoor conditions will cooperate.
Change crop or planting dateWHAT THIS ANSWER KNOWS
Your garden is using manually entered or initial illustrative frost dates. Check a nearby official station before relying on the seasonal window.
Weather: not checked or unavailable · Regional history: not checkedSee evidence and source limitsYOUR GARDEN RECORD
1 bed · 1 seasonEvery season has its own planting history. Start a new season without rewriting last year.
Stored on this device only. Export the complete garden archive to protect your records; there is no cloud account or automatic sync yet.
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TIME TRAVEL THROUGH THE BED
April 2027
N ↑North-edge trellis
32square feet
0plantings active
32open squares
0upcoming starts
03 / What comes next
Find the next harvest.
For the selected square and proposed start date, these options fit the current spatial and seasonal constraints. They are planning candidates, not harvest guarantees.
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Arugula
Maturity leaves at least four weeks before your fall planning date.
25–40 days general crop maturity · 9/sq ft02
Cilantro
Maturity leaves at least four weeks before your fall planning date.
30–50 days general crop maturity · 4/sq ft03
Radish
Maturity leaves at least four weeks before your fall planning date.
25–40 days general crop maturity · 16/sq ft04
Spinach
Maturity leaves at least four weeks before your fall planning date.
35–50 days general crop maturity · 9/sq ft05
Beets
Maturity leaves at least four weeks before your fall planning date.
50–65 days general crop maturity · 9/sq ft04 / Ground the advice
The growing season has local rules.
Hardiness zones describe perennial winter survival. They do not determine frost dates. Without an applied station record, the prefilled frost dates are illustrative Upper Midwest assumptions, not dates derived from your ZIP. Check official station normals below, then apply them explicitly or enter locally informed dates. Add a dated soil observation when available.
A soil reading affects a planting decision only when dated within three days of that proposed planting. A historical or future-dated reading cannot stand in for today's bed conditions.
LIVE REGIONAL FORECAST · NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
LOCAL FREEZE NORMALS · NOAA 1991–2020
Find official 32°F first and last freeze statistics from a nearby station. These represent historical weather-station conditions, not your garden or next season's forecast.
NOAA station frost normals have not been checked for this ZIP.
About NOAA's climate normals ↗REGIONAL TEMPERATURE HISTORY · NASA POWER
Compare the proposed season against 10 prior years of gridded regional temperature data. This is a historical pattern, not a future forecast or a measured garden condition.
Regional history has not been checked for this ZIP.
What this engine knows
Reviewed crop requirements, your entered dates, your actual saved layout, and optional NWS short-term forecasts or NASA POWER regional history.
What it does not claimUnentered soil measurements, a future-season weather forecast, exact harvest dates, measured yield, or validated pest predictions. Historical modeled heat is not a forecast.
05 / Your seasons, remembered
What really happened in your garden?
Seed packets describe a possibility. Your field notes record a season. Log the dates you actually saw seedlings, harvested vegetables, or cleared a crop, then compare them with the original plan.
0Planned plantings
0With observed harvests
0Active field notes
THE GARDEN INTELLIGENCE LEDGER
A season teaches. Several seasons reveal patterns.
These are observations from this browser's garden archive. They help you review decisions, but never override planting space, dates, packet details, local frost assumptions or known weather.
0Plantings with a reported first harvest0Explicit failures before first harvest0Still unknown, not failures
02 / SUCCESSION IN PRACTICE
Which bed handoffs produced food?
No verified-in-the-journal handoffs yet. Record a crop's removal and the next crop's first harvest in the same bed.
03 / FAILURES TO INVESTIGATE
What deserves another look?
No explicitly recorded preharvest failures. Missing harvest records are not counted as failures.
RECORD A GARDENER OBSERVATION
These are gardener-reported observations, not independently verified measurements. Future dates are not allowed. Editing an entry records a correction rather than silently deleting history.
PLANNED VS OBSERVED
Choose or place a crop to begin its field notes.
Keep your garden history.
Download a complete backup after important harvests. Browser records are local to this device and can be lost if site data is cleared.
Why this is different
Real constraints. Better decisions.
A planting isn't merely a label on a grid. It occupies physical growing space between two dates. When that crop finishes, a new possibility opens. Change one event and the next opportunity changes with it.