How it works

Six easy steps, one good season.

You can be set up and logging in the time it takes to fill a watering can. Then Garden Stride mostly stays out of the way and shows up when you need it.

Add your location

Garden Stride uses your location to fetch your hardiness zone and a local forecast. No address — just a coarse coordinate. Skip if you want; you can add it later.

Sketch your first bed

Place a bed on the grid. Resize it, name it ("East raised — tomatoes"), give it a color. Add features like a path, compost bin, or trellis if you like.

Plant it

Pick from the plant library or add your own. Drop plants into the bed at the right spacing. Each planting keeps a date so the timeline knows.

Set a few reminders

A weekly water for the herb bed, a fortnightly fertilize for the tomatoes. Cadences adapt to weather — they do not pile up while you are away.

Tend and log

On the dashboard, today's tasks live front and center. Tap to mark them done or jump into a quick log entry. The streak counts the days you showed up.

Look back at the season

Your log, your harvests, your bloom dates — by plant, by bed, by garden. Next year you will know what to plant earlier.

Less reading, more growing

Open Garden Stride and try it for yourself.

Free forever for home gardeners — no subscription, no email pestering. Just a helpful place to plan and tend.