From Soil to Harvest —
Plan Your Best Garden Yet

Your central hub. See garden summaries, active alerts, weather, and quick links to all features.

Your first garden is usually built for you during setup. You can add more at any time, by hand or with the Auto Garden Builder.

The Auto Garden Builder creates a suggested garden layout from your size, climate profile, growing preference, soil type, and path choice.

Measures how much sun a spot actually gets, by having you trace the sun's path across your sky with the camera. Trees, fences and buildings block it, and Plotera counts what is left.

Soil Centre keeps reusable soil assessments, testing notes and garden assignments together.

Manage your account, garden, notification, weather, units, appearance, and preference controls from Settings.

A visual map of your garden, made of cells. Each cell is 30cm across, so a 4m bed is about 13 cells wide.

The 3D garden view can show a virtual growth stage for each planted zone based on your planting date and expected harvest time.

A month-by-month guide showing what to sow, transplant, and harvest — tailored to your climate zone.

Track watering for the whole garden or individual zones and get notified when care is due.

The Watering Advisor gives plant-specific watering guidance based on the crop, soil or growing medium, current weather, and watering method.

Log fertiliser applications and set when Plotera should remind you about the next feed.

The Fertilising Advisor builds a feeding plan from the plant, growth stage, growing setup, last feed date, and any nutrient symptoms.

The Harvest Wizard helps decide whether tricky fruiting crops are ready to pick by checking several ripeness signs together.

Keep track of garden tasks with priorities, due dates, reminder times, and repeats.

Use Garden Journal as a searchable notebook for dated garden progress, experiments, pests, weather notes, harvest lessons and ideas.

A zone is a planting — a patch of your garden growing one crop. Each one tracks its own watering, feeding, harvest and history.

Keep a record of all the seeds you own — stock levels, expiry dates, and source details.

Keep track of fertilisers, soil, amendments, pest treatments, tools and other supplies you already own.

Record every harvest — what you picked, how much, and from which zone.

Log garden expenses to understand what your produce actually costs to grow.

Scroll back through each garden to see what grew where, and when - essential for planning crop rotation.

A library of 250 vegetables, herbs, fruits, flowers and fruit trees with detailed growing guides.

Track seedlings from sowing through to transplant with a visual tray grid and shared tray reminders.

A photo diary for each garden — document progress, pest damage, and great harvests.

Plotera can show in-app alerts and send server push or email reminders for due garden care and practical weather changes.

Plotera stores coarse usage summaries so we can improve the app.

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New in-depth growing guides in the plant encyclopedia, starting with watermelon, passionfruit, tomato, basil, garlic, lettuce, zucchini, cucumber, capsicum and strawberry: soil, pollination, pruning, propagation, pots, varieties, step-by-step tips, common problems and advice for your own climate, all checked against expert sources. More plants are on the way. Plant pages now use the location on your account for climate and planting times, and on windy days plants in the 3D garden bend in the wind, with their leaves fluttering at the top.

Plants in the 3D garden are now drawn much bigger, so your beds look full and lush and each crop is easier to see up close.

Every plant in the 3D garden has been redrawn. All 250 outdoor plants now have their own shape, leaves and flowers, drawn from our encyclopedia illustrations, and they change as they grow: seedlings, leafy plants, flowers, then fruit or harvest. The 3D view also opens faster, and reopening a garden is quicker because your device remembers the plants it has already drawn. Slower computers now keep the view smooth while you move around. The grid and zone outlines start switched off, and you can turn them on any time.

The Garden Timeline is easier to use. The garden now fills the screen, and you can pinch or use the + and - buttons to zoom in, then drag to look around. Crops show fully grown whenever they were in the ground, so it is easy to see what was where. Under the slider you now see just what was added or removed on each date, with a quick count, and the slider is bigger and easier to drag.

The Garden Timeline has a new look. Each garden opens as a photo tile, and inside you see the garden drawn just like the planner, with every crop at the size it was on that day. Markers on the slider show when things were planted or cleared, quiet stretches are greyed out, and dragging jumps straight between changes. Below the garden, photo cards show what was growing on that date and how far along it was.

Zone History is now the Garden Timeline: pick a garden and scroll back through it to see what grew where and when. Tap a square for its planting dates, or search your plantings to jump straight to them. In the Growth Simulator, leafy crops, roots and bulbs - like pak choy, garlic, chives and spring onions - now reach harvest before they flower, and only go to flower if they are left in the ground. The Watering Advisor has a plant search, and the Help guide is up to date.

The To Do page has a fresh look. Tasks are grouped by when they are due - overdue, today, tomorrow, this week and later - with a quick count of each at the top. Finished tasks are tucked away until you turn on Show completed, and if you tick one by mistake, tap Undo. Watering now opens on a quick overview of each garden - what it needs, when it was last watered and the rain ahead - and you tap a garden for its full details. Seed tray plugs typed by variety name, like Buttercrunch or Yellow Granex, now show the right plant icon.

Give a plant a poke: tap one in 2D or 3D and it gives a little wobble before its details open. You can now download a copy of all your gardens and records at any time from My Account > Download My Data on plotera.app.

The 3D garden now runs noticeably smoother, especially in a web browser, with the same detail as before. Snails now visit the garden from time to time, day or night and in any weather, leaving a faint shiny trail behind them. Weeds in the lawn now darken properly at night, the 2D garden sits centred on wide screens, and the Garden button sits neatly in the corner. Snow now looks like snow in 3D: a grey sky, bigger soft flakes and a white dusting over the ground. Light mode is hidden for now while we finish it.

Fireflies are now a rarer sight: a few small neon-green glows far out by the tree line at night, fading slowly in and out. Morning weather notifications no longer repeat today's rain or UV when your daily forecast has already covered it, and dates now read "today", "tomorrow" or "on Saturday". We have also updated our Terms and Privacy Policy.

New visitors in your garden: when it rains, frogs may turn up by a puddle, and dragonflies sometimes hover and dart over open ground. You will see them in 2D and 3D.

In the grid tools, Copy is now on the Plant tab and Bare soil is on the Paths tab with the other ground types. In 3D, stone paths sit on top of the soil instead of sinking into it, and a faint line across the lawn on some phones is gone.

The Growth Simulator slider is now smooth: plants grow continuously as you drag, in 2D and 3D, instead of jumping from stage to stage. The 3D garden has gentle rises and dips in the lawn, soil and paths, and tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, carrots and lettuce look more natural. Butterflies now fly over raised beds instead of through them. In the grid tools, there is now one Raised bed button, the Move button reads Move pots, and the erase brush no longer removes beds.

A new Garden button (where Harvest was) opens your garden tools: a one-page Garden summary with the weather lately, what is growing, harvests coming, crops finishing and what to plant next, plus Garden sun - scan how much sun your garden gets with your camera, and every plant shows whether it gets enough. Watering now gives each garden its own advice from the weather: how much to water this week, or to hold off when rain is coming. The Zones page groups zones by garden, and the Seed Inventory has a summary at the top and an A to Z index. Pots: press and hold to move, or unlock Move in Beds / Pots; one-cell pots are wider. Little visitors now appear in the 2D garden too, pinch-zoom is smooth, switching gardens is quicker, the new-garden setup opens over the app, and cloud shadows no longer draw lines on some phones.

The 2D garden now redraws much faster, especially on iPhone and iPad, and uses far less memory, so edits show up straight away. On the website, the screenshots on the home page now slide and can be swiped, shown on a phone.

Plotera is now on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, as well as Google Play. The iPhone buttons across the website and app now take you straight to the App Store, and the website's menu bar shows both store buttons.

The fireflies now really do come out after dark in the 3D garden - look out across the lawn for their glow - and the birds and butterflies go to bed at night.

Fireflies come out at night in the 3D garden: a few blink and drift low over the lawn, away from the beds, so you can go and find one. There are fewer butterflies by day, and the lawn no longer shows a shiny sheen at night when you look across it at a low angle.

The Auto Garden Builder can now lay out raised beds for you: choose how many, the size of each, and wide paths between them so they are easy to get around. You can also pick more than one thing you want to grow. Press and hold a pot to move it somewhere else in the garden - the plant comes with it - and pot names now sit below the pot so small pots show them in full. Tapping a planting now gives you Archive and Delete right on the pop-up, and Full Details goes straight to editing. The 3D garden has more life: a small bird drops in to peck about on the paths, a bigger bird circles overhead, and orange and lemon butterflies flutter over the beds on fine days. Boysenberry is in the plant list, and plants you type in by name now show in the 2D view. The grid tools tab is now called Beds / Pots.

Plotera auf Deutsch: hundreds more screens, buttons and messages now appear in German when you choose Deutsch in Settings - including pots, the Yield Log, the Soil Centre, Settings and the calendar - and dates show the German way. The 3D garden now shows at most two little scenes at a time, and the gnome sometimes stands right in the garden.

Pots! Use the new Pot tool on the Beds tab: tap where it goes, then pick round, square or a long rectangle, its size (1 to 16 cells), height and material - terracotta, glazed in four colours, concrete, plastic, half-barrel or metal. Plant in it like any bed; it shows in 2D and 3D, and the path it stands on comes back if you remove it. More life in the 3D garden too: birds that fly in and hop along the paths, a harvest basket, gloves left on the path, a sprinkler on the lawn with its hose, and a softer, rounder rabbit, plus a cat, a garden gnome, a duck, bags of soil and a wheelbarrow on the lawn, and three hens scratching about in the garden. The setting sun now sinks behind the trees instead of glowing in front of them.

The garden now changes through the day: every few hours you might find a watering can left out, a shovel stuck in the ground, a bird perched on a hay fork or a rabbit nibbling at the edge of the lawn in the 3D view. Paths look laid by hand, not by ruler: edges wobble and corners round off where a path meets soil, a bed or lawn, with the odd pebble or chip spilled across, in both 2D and 3D. New path textures too - packed river stone in mixed sizes, crushed gravel, worn pavers with gritty joints and richer woodchip - and no more seams between path squares. In 3D, soil is crumbly and matte with small clods, with no shine or stripes, and the grass and weeds darken at night.

Partly cloudy days now look like it: soft cloud shadows drift across the field and the forest with the wind, and the sun dims over your garden as one passes. The 3D lawn has real grass you can see, weeds and wildflowers right out to the tree line, and no more repeating pattern in the grass.

The forest around the 3D view is shaded by the sun and casts soft shadows that lengthen in the evening. The grass has lusher and drier patches, and weeds and wildflowers grow through the lawn in both 2D and 3D. A change made just before you close the app is still saved.

Safer saving: an older copy of your garden left open on another device can no longer undo newer changes, and beds you clear stay cleared. If the app is ever showing the copy saved on your phone it now tells you, and keeps trying for the latest. Photos are stored separately, so gardens load much faster. You can now show your password while typing it.

Plotera News is live at plotera.app/news, with every update we ship. Forms no longer pick a garden for you: logging a harvest, a to-do, a cost or a photo asks which garden, the Yield Log starts on all gardens, and the Water Wizard lists beds from every garden.

The Yield Log has monthly harvest charts, filters by garden and a CSV export. The Soil Centre is rebuilt: choose a quick or a full test, enter lab results directly, add pH readings over time and see it all on one dashboard. In 3D, the sun now sets behind the trees.

The 3D view now sits in a forest clearing with mountains behind, and the scenery follows the live weather: dusk, cloud, rain and frost. Windy days bring swirls of air and blowing leaves, and slower phones automatically drop extras to stay smooth. The floating Harvest button is now a basket, and the sign-in screen shows the new Plotera logo.

iPhones now appear in the list of devices that receive your notifications.

Support for the new Plotera Android app, with Google sign-in, your phone's camera and gallery, and notifications. Updates now reach every device reliably as soon as they are released.

Your seed inventory is now one list across the whole account. Switching gardens no longer empties it, and seeds can be edited or removed from any garden.

New plantings are dated today by default, so watering and harvest timing start straight away — you can still change it. The walkthrough also explains what choosing a crop from the guide brings with it, and shows the seed or seedling setting.

The walkthrough now marks the right thing on every step, the practice cells are picked from the middle of your garden rather than a corner, and setup uses Plotera’s own plant icons instead of emoji.

Setup now shows a second set of crops thriving in your area this month, and works out what they will drink against the rain actually forecast — so you can see the watering being planned rather than guessed.

Setup now shows the work behind its suggestions: your daylight hours and how high the sun gets today, your climate and hardiness zone with typical winter lows, and how many of the crops in the guide are in their planting window where you are this month.

The garden walkthrough now shows what it is talking about: the crop picker is highlighted properly, there is a step showing the four cells you picked, and the finished planting is scrolled into view rather than sitting off screen.

Searching for a plant now names the patch after it, the same as picking one from the list — Watermelons, then Watermelons 2 for the next one. No more renaming every planting from “New planting”.

A second garden with the same name is now numbered for you — My Garden 2 rather than two gardens you cannot tell apart. Planting a crop also lets you take a photo with the camera, not just pick one from your library.

Setup now fills your garden properly — the crops you choose are laid out in beds sized to the plot instead of three small patches — and the last screen tells you what actually went in and where, rather than naming one crop.

Setup now suggests crops properly instead of showing an empty list, and never leaves you on a screen with nothing to tap. Walkthrough tips fit the screen, only one tip shows at a time, and you can see your garden behind them. The forecast shows six days across two rows.

Garden cards now show the 3D preview on phones, the weather card stays inside the screen, Today lists up to three jobs and updates the moment you add a reminder, Ready to Harvest opens the garden with the crop waiting, and Plant Health opens properly from the dashboard.

Fixed a dashboard that came up half empty. Today, the quick actions, your gardens and the Did You Know fact now fill in whenever you open the Home tab, not only on the first load, and the six quick actions are there from the start without having to set them.

Opening Plotera no longer shifts colour part way through: the start-up screen, the installed app’s own splash and the legal pages now use the same deep green as the rest of the app. “Plan Grow Harvest” on the dashboard is set in Plotera’s own typeface.

Dashboard tidy-up: less space under the greeting, the forecast now matches the height of Today, shorter quick action tiles, and the greeting follows the clock rather than the moment you opened the app.

A shorter dashboard. Alerts are counted in Today and open from there instead of stacking up cards at the top, and the whole screen now uses the same greens as the main menu.

A rebuilt home dashboard: a greeting, what is ready to harvest, today’s jobs beside the forecast, and six quick actions you choose yourself. Each garden card now shows a live still of that garden’s own 3D view, so you can see what is actually growing in it.

Every screen now shares the deeper green of the main menu, so the app reads as one palette instead of two. The menu also uses the real Plotera mark, and the Android splash and launcher icons have been rebuilt from the new artwork.

A new look: refreshed logo, splash and app icons, and a rebuilt main menu grouped by what you are doing — Main, My Garden, Planning & Growing, Care & Health, Harvest & Records. Small gardens can now be moved around freely in 2D instead of only sideways. Raised beds can be renamed, resized or deleted from a gear on the bed itself, tin beds have proper corrugated sheeting in six colours, and the grid inside beds turns off with the grid button. The Growth Simulator now shows each crop at its own real stage, and clearing a path actually clears it.

The sun path in the Location Advisor no longer flickers or doubles up when you hold the phone toward the sky — it now tracks smoothly wherever you point it. The advisor also opens on your saved spots instead of a three-step form: tap Test Another Spot to run a scan, and finishing one brings you straight back. Every plant in the app now has full health guidance, so plant diagnosis works for flowers, herbs and unusual crops as well as the common vegetables.

Planting now fills in the expected harvest time from the plant guide, and names the patch after the crop — Watermelons, Tomatoes, Chillies. The Growth Simulator follows your garden properly: switch it on and every crop sits at its own real stage, or drag the slider to see everything at one stage. Select, Clear, Erase, Copy and Undo work from every tab now instead of being spread across three, clearing a path really clears it, and raised beds can be renamed, resized or deleted — press Edit on the Beds tab and tap the gear on any bed. Tin beds have proper corrugated sheeting and come in six colours.

Setup is shorter and clearer. You are asked once whether you are planning a garden or tracking one you already have, and if you are tracking one, Plotera no longer guesses where your plants are — you place them yourself in the planner, with a walkthrough to show you how. What you choose to grow now visibly shapes your suggestions, and picking two kinds shows you both. The garden walkthrough covers the whole job of planting, plus paths, raised beds, 2D and 3D, Live Weather and the Growth Simulator, and can be replayed any time from the button on your garden.

The sun path in the Location Advisor now tracks properly. On some phones it was not reading the compass at all, so the line sat still and then jumped; Plotera now falls back to a second sensor when that happens, and recovers on its own if the reading drops out mid-scan. The line is also drawn many times more often as you move, so it follows the camera smoothly instead of stepping, and it no longer flicks across the middle of the screen as you turn.

New to Plotera? Setup now walks you from signing up to a planted garden in a few minutes. Tell Plotera where you grow and it shows what suits your area this month before you build anything, then helps you size your space and get your first crops in. A short walkthrough on the garden grid shows how selecting squares and planting actually works, and it can be replayed any time from Help. Raised bed names are readable again in 2D, beds show their soil in 3D with their name plaque on the outside, and garden textures load faster when moving between pages.

Planting is now one step: select the cells you want and choose a crop, and Plotera groups them for you. Select and Lasso have become a single tool, with paths and raised beds in their own tabs. Every plant in the app now has its own watering, feeding and harvest guidance rather than sharing advice with its plant family, so a lemon is told about lemons. Harvest questions match what you are actually growing, and ornamental flowers say so instead of being asked when to pick them.

The Garden Location Advisor is now a guided camera view: follow the sun's path across the sky and collect each sun to measure what shades your garden. In 3D, live weather follows the hour-by-hour forecast rather than a single snapshot, so drizzle, overcast and storms show when they happen, and frost and heat haze now appear in cold and hot climates. Touch controls match Google Maps and Earth — pinch to zoom, twist to rotate, two fingers up or down to tilt, and double-tap and drag for one-handed zoom.

Security and reliability improvements.

The Garden Location Advisor now measures shade with the camera. Trace the sun's path across the sky and Plotera reads what is actually in the way — trees, fences, rooflines — then reports your direct sun hours for both midsummer and midwinter from the one trace. Weather alerts are quieter too: severe warnings still arrive at any hour, while routine forecasts now wait for your chosen daily forecast time instead of arriving overnight.

Security and reliability improvements.

Explore the new Gardeners' Globe from the side menu. Joining is optional: visible gardeners use masked first names and deliberately shifted country-region markers, never exact locations.

Garden View now has a richer clear sky and live sun, more expressive rain and lightning, a compact tabbed Grid Toolbar on phones, and much smoother Growth Simulator scrubbing.

Live Conditions is now called Live Weather, making the 3D garden's local sun and weather control clearer at a glance.

The redundant active-zone summary has been removed from the top of 3D Garden View, leaving a cleaner single row for view, weather and growth controls.