Vegetable Gardening Apps For Your Phone or iPad

Raise your hand if you love to grow vegetables! Raise your hand if you like cool apps for your phone! Why not combine the two and download a couple apps specifically geared for vegetable gardeners?  It might seem a little strange - gardening has to do with getting physical outside and getting as far from your phone as possible, right? But keep an open mind here; these apps can educate you on various aspects of planning and growing your veggies and make your gardening life a little easier.

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Gardening Plant Care Videos. All the How To videos you could want, in your own personal phone library. There's everything from continuous lettuce harvesting tips to how to graft a fruit tree to how to grow vegetables upside down.

Garden Compass. One neat thing you can do with this app is take a picture of a plant or problem/pest you want identified, send it to their experts and you will get a response within 24 hours.

Vegetable Garden Planner. Want to know how many seeds or seedlings to plant to feed your family? This is the app for you. No more planting enough to feed an army, unless you want to feed an army.

Vegetable Gardening (Grow Planner). This app provides an all-around education - how to start, how to plant, how to harvest and what to do with your harvest (canning, cooking, freezing, drying, pickling and eating). It can even show you how to create a root cellar and how to grow herbs indoors.

Gardening Toolkit. A wealth of information here. It gives you info on vegetable plants as well as how to plant them - seed depth, days to germination, when to sow. This application will even give you info on companion planting. You can store all the material on plants and trees you're interested in in one spot for quick reference.

eWeather HD. You can see your current temperature and precise hourly forecasts.  It even has a radar screen. As a gardener, you know how quickly a hard freeze or hail can damage your tender plants.

Now obviously an app won't grow your veggies for you. There is no substitution for getting out there and getting your hands dirty; you not only grow vegetables but you grow experienced. But hey, if a cool phone app can help you in any way get in better with Mother Nature, then go for it - and have fun planning your new garden!

Planning Your Garden On Your Desktop

Winter is a great time for planning your next garden, and strange though it may sound, computers make it easier than ever to plan out your garden.

It is easy to get exactly what you like for your garden by logging on to online garden stores and being able to choose your plants according to color, size, type, season and more.

You can even select plants according to the conditions they will be planted in in your garden, so for example, if you have a shaded area you will be able to select only those plants that prefer shady conditions.

Garden planning software.

This makes it so easy for even an inexperienced gardener to plan a garden and know what it will look like, and know that the right plants are in the best place according to the conditions.

It is also quite a lot of fun creating your own oasis and choosing the plants to suit your personality! You can easily modify and change the plan around until you get the best layout for your garden without ever having to spend money until you are completely happy and ready to go with the ordering of the plants or seeds.

As well as the convenience of the search functions on gardening websites, you will often find that due to the lower overhead of running an online business, you can save quite a substantial lot of money on garden supplies by buying online rather than at the local garden store.

One of the best ways to get ideas for your garden plans is to look at the galleries of other gardens on the Internet and base your own garden on one you like, customizing it to suit your requirements.

Once you have created a plan using these resources you can take it to a landscape professional to get some additional guidance and advice if desired, but in doing the groundwork online first you will stand to save a lot of money and time.

Review: GrowVeg Garden Planner Software

This cool software from GrowVeg.com makes it easy and fun to draw up a plan for your garden, design the layout, decide on what plants you want and where, figure out how much space they need, and much more.

It makes crop rotation and succession plantings a snap, with built in information on what family each plant is in, how much growing space they need, what goes well together for companion plantings, and more. Want to change something? It's easy to move crops, resize beds, and make other changes with just the click of a mouse!

While you can certainly plan out your garden on paper, using this great software makes it a lot easier to modify designs and ideas later, save a record of your garden plan for later years, and have a great visual depiction that makes it easy to see where everything is planted. Plus it's just lots of fun to use!

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