GrowSmart vs Root & Row

Grow your own groceries, from spring seeds to fall harvest. GrowSmart plans your garden beds, tells you what to do each week, and remembers what grew where, so next spring starts with last year's history. Start planning for free. Add up to 10 plants and get your spring planting schedule, plus fall garlic and shallots. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited plants, summer and fall schedules, succession planting and the full companion matrix. No account, email or credit card required to start. WHAT YOU GET • Your plants, not a short list. 251 vegetables, herbs, fruit and flowers, including garlic, strawberries and tomatillos. Can't find yours? Add your own plant and GrowSmart schedules it. • Timed for where you garden. Planting dates use 1991 to 2020 climate normals from nearby weather stations, with your USDA hardiness zone, in °F or °C. • Your season at a glance. Every sow, transplant and harvest window on one timeline: spring on the free plan, spring to fall on Pro. • A to-do list for the garden. This Week shows what to sow, transplant, water, feed and harvest. Finish a whole group of tasks with one tap. • Your garden is saved. It saves on your phone as you go and works offline. Sign in for free to sync it across your devices. RAISED BED PLANNER, DRAWN TO SCALE Lay out raised beds, rows and containers with drag and drop. GrowSmart shows the spacing each plant needs and how many fit per square foot, and flags poor companions and crops that come back to the same spot too soon. One bed on the free plan, unlimited beds on Pro. CROP ROTATION MEMORY (INCLUDED FREE) GrowSmart remembers what grew in every square. Start a new year and your beds are saved to History, and the planner warns you before you plant the same crop family in the same spot within two years. Garlic and shallots planted in fall stay in place. COMPANION PLANTING WITH REASONS See which plants help each other, which conflict, and why. Reasons are checked against university extension sources. Basic companion info on the free plan, the full matrix on Pro. SUCCESSION PLANTING (PRO) Repeat sowings of lettuce, beans, radishes and other quick crops are scheduled for you, so the harvest keeps coming. WHERE THE DATES COME FROM NOAA and Environment Canada 1991 to 2020 climate normals from nearby stations. Local conditions can vary. SHARE YOUR PLAN Share any bed as a picture of your planner, ready to send by Messages or email. SAGE, YOUR AI GARDEN ASSISTANT (PRO + SAGE) Ask garden questions in plain language. Sage knows your city, your planting calendar, what is in each bed and what grew there last year. Try 3 questions free with a free account. PLANS Free: up to 10 plants and one bed, the spring schedule, fall garlic and shallots, and crop rotation memory. Pro: plan your whole growing season. Unlimited plants, spring, summer and fall schedules, repeat sowings to keep harvesting longer, and the full companion planting matrix. Pro + Sage: everything in Pro, plus Sage with 50 questions a month. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Built in Ontario by a Canadian gardener. Terms of Use: https://getgrowsmart.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://getgrowsmart.com/privacy

Root & Row was built by a gardener, for gardeners. Not by a software company that's never had dirt under its fingernails — by someone who knows the ache of a spring backache, the heartbreak of a late frost, and the quiet triumph of the first ripe tomato. PLAN YOUR PLOTS, NOT JUST YOUR PLANTS • Draw your actual garden beds — any size, even pots • Beds in any shape: ovals, L-shapes, kidney beds or an outline you draw yourself, turned to any angle (Pro) • Automatic layout planning fits your chosen crops into real bed space, with pathways where you need them • Spacing, depth and quantity guidance scaled to your plot size and household size • Rearrange visually until it feels right, and undo if you change your mind • Plan next season with crop rotation and companion warnings built in FRUIT TREES, BERRIES & PERENNIALS • Apples, pears, plums, peaches, apricots, cherries, figs, lemons, grapes and berries, alongside your vegetables • Know whether a tree needs a pollination partner, whether your garden gets enough winter chill, and how many years until the first harvest • Blossom frost risk for your own bloom window, a yearly care calendar, and spray timing by growth stage YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR PLANTS • You don't need a database of 10,000 plants — you need the ones YOU want to grow • Add any plant and one tap pulls everything: spacing, sunlight, sowing dates, quantities — even a hand-painted illustration (Pro) KNOW YOUR ZONE — ANYWHERE ON EARTH • Enter a zip code or any town worldwide and Root & Row finds your hardiness zone and frost dates — even south of the equator • Planting windows and reminders are anchored to YOUR climate, not a generic calendar NEVER MISS A GARDEN MOMENT • Sowing, transplanting, hardening-off and harvest reminders — one-off or repeating, with Done and Snooze right in the notification • A This Week summary, frost alerts for tender crops, and a season timeline of your whole year, crop by crop • Succession sowing that shows what there's still time to plant before frost • A Home Screen widget with today's garden care at a glance • A built-in knowledge base for common vegetables, herbs and fruit — including Asian vegetables most apps forget RECORD YOUR SEASON • Log every harvest in seconds and watch the season's totals grow • Keep a garden journal of pests, problems and progress, with photos • Back up your gardens to a file and restore them anytime ROOT & ROW PRO — THE SMART-GARDENING TOOLKIT • 7-day local forecast with soil temperature, turned into jobs: water, hold off, cover or shade • AI growing suggestions tuned to your plants, your weather and your zone: watering, pests, fertilizer, pruning, succession sowing • Prune it with me: step-by-step pruning at the plant, with photo checks — and answers when a tree won't fruit • A season schedule that turns your plan into sowing-to-harvest reminders in one tap • Plant Identifier: snap up to three photos and put a name to any mystery seedling • Auto-fill growing data for any custom plant you add — one tap pulls the numbers and paints a watercolor illustration to match • Beds in any shape, and garden plan export: a PDF or pictures of your whole garden, with a page for every bed and every plant count, under your own logo Root & Row Pro is $4.99/month, or $34.99/year (save 42%). Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled; manage anytime in your App Store account settings. The free version is a complete garden planner — no account, no ads, your data stays on your device. Dig in. Your best season starts with a good plan. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/