GrowIt: Garden Planner

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4.7of 5 · store
13,269ratings on the App Store
387reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

A garden planner with a visual bed layout and watering schedule, but weather data is regularly wrong: after 100mm of rain it still tells you to water. The crop variety database is thin, and agronomic advice is sometimes incorrect, such as squash family sowing recommendations.

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What people use it for

Gardener who needs a visual bed layout tool

What reviews praise

Visual garden layout with companion planting helps plan bed arrangements.

What reviews complain about

Weather integration is unreliable, making the watering schedule more harmful than helpful.

What users experience

4 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

This app is terrible. It literally can't identify any varieties, it never knows when it's actually rained well enough and constantly tells me I need to water. The final straw was the fact we got 4 inches of rain last night and the app is harassing me to water my plants.

Water pacing is good in general terms, but there are no exceptions to it. We are in a drought right now and plants that normally wouldn't need water are droopy and begging for it. Please improve the weather feature on the app to include this type of scenario.

Overall, this app is good and extremely helpful for reminders for watering and helpful tips for growing different fruits and vegetables. I withheld one star because the weather is not as accurate as it should be to help with watering, certain varieties of plants are missing or all lumped together.

I started to enter the varieties of plants and herbs I planted and the database didn't have ANY of them. Thankfully I just did the trial because I would have been livid if I paid for this.

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Hires the app to plan a season from scratch, work out the sowing dates and not ruin the first harvest.The first-time vegetable gardener