Gardening Pro: Garden Planner

Thank you for using Gardening and for bringing such care to your growing spaces. Gardeners who keep thoughtful records do valuable work, and this update is built to make that work easier to follow. It brings a cleaner local-first experience, stronger planning tools, clearer records, and practical ways to understand each season from planting through harvest. A FRESHER DASHBOARD • See active gardens, seed inventory, tasks due, and recent journal activity at a glance. • Review today's work and useful inventory signals without digging through several screens. • Open Garden Progress to build meaningful care habits, maintain a streak, and earn achievements inside the app. • The Gardening Pro offer now leaves the dashboard after Pro access is active. BETTER GARDEN AND SEED RECORDS • Garden records cover beds, containers, greenhouse benches, and other growing areas. • Save dimensions, location, sun, soil, hardiness zone, color, and notes. • Seed lists lead with the seed name for faster scanning. • Sort seeds by name or by crop and variety. • Search common seed names and reuse names from your own local records. • Choose a saved garden while editing seed information. • Track packet, seed, start, bulb, clove, tuber, slip, set, weight, and other useful quantity units. • Bought, planted, and remaining quantities are clearer during entry. PLANNING FOR REAL GARDEN WORK • Create planting plans with sowing dates, transplant timing, locations, and harvest windows. • Add tasks with due dates, priorities, recurrence, notes, and related records. • Use the calendar to bring tasks, plantings, harvests, and journal dates together. • Select calendar events to open the exact related record. • Keep due work visible on the dashboard when the day gets busy. JOURNAL, PHOTOS, AND HARVESTS • Record milestones, observations, weather, soil conditions, pests, disease, and plant health. • Add local photos to supported garden, seed, and journal records. • Track harvest quantity, quality, destination, revenue, variety, garden, and planting. • Use U.S. or metric units for measurements and quantities. • Keep dated details ready for end-of-season review. SEARCH AND REFERENCE IMPROVEMENTS • Search across your local gardening records from one place. • Open gardens, seeds, plantings, tasks, journal entries, and harvests from supported results. • Save searches you want to use again. • Browse built-in guidance for plants, seeds, soil, weather, tools, and seasonal work. • Use reference links and summaries while planning spacing, sowing, and garden care. LOCAL BACKUP AND EXPORT TOOLS • Export a local backup without a Pro purchase. • Save versioned JSON backups for garden records. • Create backup packages that keep local photo attachments as separate files. • Export supported record categories as CSV files. • Review an import before adding anything to the database. • Pro import adds records without clearing the garden information already on your device. • Duplicate-aware import helps avoid adding the same saved content again. MORE CONTROL, LESS CLUTTER • Database totals load without pulling every photo or full record into view. • Import and Export has a focused home with status, database, export, and import sections. • The detailed record count stays collapsed until you ask to see it. • Existing and migrated records remain readable, editable, searchable, and exportable. • Garden habits and achievements stay on your device and inside the app. • No account is required for your local garden records. This update is for gardeners who notice the small things, save what they learn, and make the next season better. Your patience and care are what make the records valuable. Gardening simply keeps them organized, searchable, and ready when you need them.