Rowtime: Garden Planner

Planting dates for your ZIP code, with the university guide behind each one. You choose the frost dates your calendar counts from, and your garden stays in your own iCloud. Enter your ZIP code. Rowtime finds the nearest NOAA weather station, its last spring and first fall frost dates, and your USDA hardiness zone. Then it shows when to start seeds indoors, plant out and harvest each crop you grow. There's no account to make and no ads. The planting calendar is free. DATES THAT FIT WHERE YOU GARDEN • Frost dates come from the weather station closest to your ZIP code (NOAA climate normals, 1991 to 2020). Your hardiness zone comes from PRISM at Oregon State University. • Where seasons don't follow frost dates, Rowtime uses the local extension planting table: Florida, the Phoenix area, much of California, western Oregon and Washington, and Hawaii by elevation. • If the nearest station is far away, or much higher or lower than your garden, Rowtime tells you. YOUR FROST DATES, YOUR CALL • Pick safe dates, where a later frost comes about 1 spring in 10, or average dates, about 1 spring in 2. Or enter frost dates from your own records. • Change your ZIP code or frost dates any time and the calendar updates. Steps you already marked done keep their dates. EVERY DATE SHOWS WHERE IT COMES FROM • Dates come from published extension guides, among them Purdue, Texas A&M AgriLife, UF/IFAS, Oregon State, Washington State and the University of Hawaii. • Tap a date to see the guide, how the date was counted from your frost dates, and a link to read the guide yourself. • Rowtime doesn't make up dates or use AI to set them. Where no guide covers a crop or a place, it says so. YOUR WHOLE SEASON ON ONE PAGE • The next twelve months on a single strip: when frost is possible, likely or almost certain where you live, and when each crop goes in and comes out. • If your season is too short for a crop, Rowtime says so and tells you how many days it needs. WHEN PLANS CHANGE • Mark each step done on the day you did it. Tapped by mistake? Undo it. • Seedlings arrived late, seeds didn't come up, or you bought extra plants? Tell Rowtime and it works out the dates that follow, with the old and new date for each step and why it moved. If a planting window has closed, it says so. • Turn on reminders to get a notification at 9 AM on each planting day. Rowtime asks for notification permission only then. YEAR TO YEAR • Start next year's garden with the same crops and seed notes. Earlier years stay under Garden years, with what you planted and picked. • Rowtime points out when a crop's plant family grew in your garden in the past two years, using Iowa State University's crop rotation advice. • Log harvests and note each crop's seed variety and where it came from. YOUR GARDEN STAYS YOURS • iCloud sync keeps your garden on every iPhone signed in to your Apple Account. It's stored in your own iCloud, where only you can see it. • Save a backup file to Files, iCloud Drive or an email and restore it on any iPhone. Before restoring, Rowtime shows what the backup holds and saves a copy of your current garden. • No analytics and no data collected. Planting data is built in and works offline. 27 CROPS Basil, beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, cilantro, cucumbers, dill, eggplant, green onions, kale, lettuce, melons and watermelons, okra, onions, parsley, peas, peppers, potatoes, snap beans, spinach, summer squash, sweet corn, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and winter squash and pumpkins. Works in Light and Dark Mode and with the largest text sizes. Rowtime covers ZIP codes in all 50 states. A few places, such as Hawaii above 3,500 feet, have no official guide yet, and Rowtime says so instead of guessing. Weather changes from year to year, and your seed packet may give different days to harvest for your variety. Rowtime is not affiliated with or endorsed by NOAA, PRISM, the USDA or any university.