Fork Handles: Allotment Plan

Know what to sow this month. Log what you've planted and where. Get a nudge before it's ready to pick, and a warning when frost is forecast. Fork Handles is a UK allotment log and veg planner for iPhone. There's no account to make, no ads, no tracking and no subscription. Your plot log and photos stay on your phone. WHAT TO SOW, MONTH BY MONTH • A UK calendar for 66 crops, including autumn and winter sowings and green manures. • "This Month" shows what to sow indoors, sow outdoors, plant out and harvest. • Each crop page has spacing, depth, growing tips and a month strip for sowing, planting out and harvest. • Choose "UK average", "Cooler and exposed" or "Mild south and coast" to suit your site. YOUR PLOT LOG • Log each planting: crop, variety, bed or plot name, how much, the date and notes. • The app works out an expected harvest window from the crop's usual days to harvest. You can change it to match your seed packet. • If a sowing date falls outside the crop's usual window, you get a gentle "wrong time" warning. It never stops you saving. • A bed is just a name, such as "Plot 14a" or "Greenhouse". There's no drawing tool for bed layouts. • A sample plot is there to start with. Delete it whenever you like. HARVEST ALERTS AND REMINDERS • Fork Handles reminds you about a month before a crop should be ready, and again about a week before. You choose the time of day. • Optional succession sowing reminders for each planting: "sow another row" every 2, 3 or 4 weeks, while the sowing window is open. • Reminders are notifications on your phone. Nothing is sent to us. TODAY'S WEATHER AND FROST WARNINGS • Today's forecast for your plot: temperature, high and low, rain and wind. • From mid-September to the end of May, a frost warning for tonight and the next two nights: "Frost possible" when the overnight low is forecast at 2°C or below, "Frost likely" at 0°C or below. • Optional frost alerts are off unless you turn them on. They use the last forecast the app fetched, so open it now and then. • Forecasts come from Apple Weather. They are approximate and can be wrong, and frost can still settle in a hollow on a night that looks mild. Check tender plants yourself. • Type a town or postcode area, or tap "Use my location" once. The app uses an approximate location (about 1 km), and only when you ask. A typed place is looked up with Apple's location service. We never receive your location. FREE, WITH ONE OPTIONAL UNLOCK Free: the full UK calendar, crop pages, tips and links, weather and frost warnings, succession reminders, and up to 8 plantings with working harvest alerts. Full Plot is a one-off in-app purchase. There's no subscription and no free trial: • Unlimited plantings • Photo gallery for your beds and plantings • Harvest log of what you picked and when • Export your plot as a JSON file, and import it again for a backup or a new phone (photos aren't in the file) Everything you've already logged stays yours, and Restore Purchases is in Settings. HONEST ABOUT THE DATES Sowing and harvest times are typical UK guidance, not promises. Your weather, soil, variety and local frost dates matter more, so check your seed packet. Harvest dates are estimates, and you can change them. Sources are listed in the app, with links. Fork Handles isn't affiliated with any of them. Questions or bugs? Email mike@dunnawayapps.uk.