Tools for better decisions

Start with the question in front of you.

Plant now, wait, protect, or observe—without hiding the assumptions.

Each tool combines practical crop knowledge with the conditions you enter, then links the result back to deeper guides and field records.

Open the Planning Studio Open Garden Today
Top-down garden plan with four raised beds, paths, irrigation, water access, and crop rotation arrows.
Useful planning connects beds, timing, crop families, paths, water, and records.

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Reference tools

Property & layout Garden Planning Studio

Find a Massachusetts parcel, draw beds and structures, place crops with spacing checks, and compare 2D and 3D canopy.

New · Massachusetts pilot Profile & records My Garden

Save reusable frost dates and honest soil overrides, then keep planting, harvest, weather, and problem notes.

New · Browser-local Today What Can I Plant Today?

Turn frost dates, measured soil temperature, Extension benchmarks, and an optional NWS forecast into ranked, explainable crop decisions.

Live forecast · Ready Spacing Plant Spacing Reference

Use mature plant size, airflow, root room, and harvest access to avoid overcrowding.

Ready Planner What Grows in This Bed

Rank crops from the imported plant database using sun, soil, frost dates, soil temperature, rotation history, and garden goals.

Ready Season Seasonal Calendar

Use seasonal rhythm, frost risk, and soil conditions to time garden work.

Ready Water Watering Depth Guide

Understand root-zone watering, mulch, crop differences, and stress signals.

Ready Records Garden Field Notes

Record planting, weather, watering, pest pressure, harvest, and lessons in a local journal.

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A coherent planning system

Upcoming tools should be calm and explicit about their assumptions. They should help compare choices, not hide uncertainty.

Planting Localized Planting Decisions

The working layer now combines sowing conditions, harvest runway, regional Extension facts, and an opt-in 48-hour NWS forecast. Climate normals and mapped soil come next.

Evidence + forecast active
Rotation Crop Rotation Planner

This planner will track crop families by bed and year so repeated disease and pest pressure is easier to see.

Tool in progress
Seeds Seed Starting Timeline

This timeline will connect frost dates, crop tolerance, germination temperature, and transplant timing.

Tool in progress
Climate Frost Date Notes

This reference will turn first and last frost dates into practical planning windows and risk notes.

Tool in progress

Trust the explanation

Every useful answer needs a visible source.

veggie.farm keeps reference data, horticultural guidance, modeled conditions, and your garden observations separate.

How the data system works →

Data foundation

Plant records first

The planner depends on trustworthy plant data. The reviewed evidence layer retains 165 planting, spacing, depth, yield, germination, transplant, site, and care facts from five Cooperative Extension organizations as individually cited records.

Knowledge Base Normalized Garden Data

Plants, sources, climate, soil, pests, diseases, deficiencies, images, and decision rules.

 Graph Garden Knowledge Graph

Plants, pests, diseases, soil, climate, techniques, and sources connected by typed relationships.

 Database Plant Database

Structured plant facts from reviewed sources, with original veggie.farm notes.

 Planning Garden Planner Requirements

Feature requirements for beds, spacing, frost dates, rotation, succession, and journal reports.

 Journal Garden Journal Schema

Structured entries for planting, observations, watering, environment, harvest, and issues.