Patchwise

A little know-how. A thriving patch.

Less guessing.
More growing.

Your vegetable garden planner, from first seed to last pick. Know what to do now, find your next edible, and give every plant a little care.

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Free to grow. No account. Works offline.

Take a look around
Your patch, a little clearer.
Patchwise Today showing seasonal jobs for a temperate Southern-hemisphere garden in October
Small jobs. Good things.One useful next step at a time.

280+ edible plant guides

Your zone. Your season.

100% at home on your phone

Useful in 30 seconds

No account, no setup maze. You could show a mate at the garden club in 30 seconds — that's the whole idea.

Made for the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand — with USDA, RHS and local growing zones, and seasons the right way up for your hemisphere.

  1. Open the app

    No sign-up, no email, no password. You're straight into it — the way an app for the garden should be.

  2. Tell it where you are

    Pick your country, enter a zip or postcode. Patchwise finds your growing zone — USDA, RHS or local — and your frost window, and you can adjust it any time. Your garden knows best.

  3. See the jobs due now

    What to sow, plant, feed, protect and pick in your garden, right now — in plain English, in the right season for your hemisphere.

Everything a food garden asks for

Built for real backyards on both sides of the equator — the climate, the pests, the varieties, and the gardeners.

  • 280+ edibles & saved favourites

    Explore the full library, save plants for later, and combine search with plant type, season, climate and container filters. Uncommon plants are classified for your country; container options include the guide's conditions.

  • Beds & containers

    Name each growing space and group plantings, jobs and harvest totals by location. Rename or remove a location without losing the plantings or their history.

  • Every picking counts

    Record grams, kilograms or whole-item counts, edit dates and notes, and browse local seasonal totals. Weights combine; counted items stay separate. Harvest records are free, including for finished plantings.

  • Per-plant care guides

    When to sow, feed, prune and protect, in plain English. Jargon is explained where it's used — "harden off" just means getting seedlings used to the outdoors.

  • Frost & zone aware

    Your zip or postcode sets your zone and frost window. Advice for Minneapolis is never advice for Miami, and Hobart is never Cairns — heatwaves get the same respect as frosts.

  • Companion planting

    Which plants help or hinder each other, and why — basil near your tomatoes, beans well away from the onions.

  • Pests, with organic controls

    Cabbage moth, fruit fly, aphids and more — identified with plain-English signs, and organic-first controls.

  • Journal & plant stories

    A photo journal for each planting — the first feed, the pest battle, the first pick — compiled into a story you can export as a PDF. A Patchwise Plus feature.

  • Seed box

    Your seed packets in one place, with a viability hint as they age — so the oldest ones get sown first.

  • Fully offline

    The whole plant library lives on your phone, photos included — it works at the back fence, up the allotment, or off the grid entirely.

  • No account, ever

    Everything works from the first open. Garden records stay in app-private storage, with user-controlled exports and Android system backups. There is no Patchwise garden-data server.

  • Verified backup & restore

    Save your country, growing spaces, plantings, harvests, routines, seed box, journal and photos as one portable file. A folder save is read back and verified; sharing remains an option, but a returned share sheet cannot confirm saving. Older backups remain readable. Restore Purchases checks Plus separately through Google Play.

See what Patchwise does for your garden

Eight real screens, ordered as one useful garden story. Swipe, drag or use the arrows to look around.

The Garden Almanac

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Patchwise campaign cover showing the Today screen and four core benefits: no account, works offline, 280 plus edibles and advice built for your growing zone.
Patchwise free care routine showing its timing, next task and pause, edit and remove controls.
Patchwise tomato plant guide with a plant photo, botanical name and climate-aware seasonal guidance.
Patchwise named beds and containers showing planting counts, location notes and edit controls.
Patchwise local-season harvest totals combining weights and tracking counted items separately.
Patchwise My Patch grouping tomato and mint plantings by bed or container, with next tasks and predicted harvest windows.
Patchwise saved mint and tomato favourites with botanical names, photos, star controls and conditional container-growing advice.
Patchwise Plus plant story showing dated photos, journal notes and a printable PDF export.

Screens show a fictional garden. Resized plant photos: tomato by Softeis and mint by Simon Eugster, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Patchwise 0.4 · free care routines

A little care.
On repeat.

Make a plan for the jobs you want to repeat. Pick a start date, set every few days or weeks, and keep just the next due repeat in view.

  • Finish on a date, after a set duration or number of repeats, or at the end of your chosen season.
  • Edit, pause or remove a schedule whenever your garden changes.
  • Suggested care is opt-in. You choose what belongs in your patch.

Care routines work offline and stay free. Optional task notifications at your chosen days and time are part of Patchwise Plus.

YOUR CARE ROUTINEExample

Check the soil

Courtyard tomatoes

Active
Starts
7 September
Repeats
Every week
Ends
After 6 repeats
Next dueMonday, 7 September

Your routine, your timing. Just the next job ahead.

One tomato, a whole season

Every planting keeps its own diary. Add a photo and a line whenever you walk past, and Patchwise keeps them in order — a season you can scroll back through in winter, or print out for the shed wall.

  1. Day 0 · 18 October

    Planted

    Two Grosse Lisse seedlings in, north-facing bed. The clock starts here.

  2. Day 21 · 8 November

    Fed and staked

    Side-dressed and tied to the stakes, now the nights have warmed up.

  3. Day 41 · 28 November

    First flowers

    Flowers on the bottom truss. Tap the stakes and they set that bit better.

  4. Day 63 · 20 December

    Green fruit

    Sizing up on the first two trusses. Even water now, or they split.

  5. Day 89 · 15 January

    First pick

    One ready, its neighbour still green. That's a harvest window, not a date.

A worked example, not a real patch: the photos in that story are freely licensed garden photographs from Wikimedia Commons, chosen to match the growth stage at each date — planting a seedling by Shixart1985 (CC BY 2.0); staked plants by The Green Ark, Bostanie (CC BY 4.0); flowers by Muffet (CC BY 2.0); green fruit by Garitzko (public domain); ripening fruit by Naposia (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Honest pricing, in plain sight

"I understand this community, so every critical element stays free. Only consider unlocking Plus if you think it's worth it."
— parkdeve, developer of Patchwise

Free, forever

$0 — the word-of-mouth product

  • Full plant wiki — all 280+ edibles, with photos
  • Zone calendar & the do-now list
  • Unlimited plantings, tasks & care routines
  • Beds, containers & harvest records
  • Favourites & combined plant filters
  • Seed box & custom plants
  • Backup & restore
  • Works offline

The free tier alone should be the best garden reference available, wherever you garden.

One-time purchase

Patchwise Plus

A$9.99 for life

Pay once. No subscription or recurring charges.

  • Smart reminders — your days, your time
  • Photo journal for every planting
  • Plant stories, compiled for you
  • PDF export to print or share
  • Everything free today stays free

Charged in your local currency. Your purchase helps with development and hosting costs.

Why so cheap?

No servers, no games

A simple price for optional extras.

  • No Patchwise account — content ships in the app
  • Your data lives on your phone, not our servers
  • Our only costs are development, content review and keeping this site online

The price is set by what's fair to charge, not by infrastructure.

No ads, ever. No trials that convert silently. Nothing essential ever moves behind a paywall.

Your data stays in your garden

Your garden records live in app-private storage. Purchases, online plant photos and user-controlled backups are explained in the privacy policy.

  • No account, no sign-up, no email address required.
  • No advertising, garden-activity tracking or crash-reporting SDKs. Purchase processing uses RevenueCat and Apple or Google.
  • Garden records are stored locally, with user-controlled exports and Android system backups. There is no Patchwise garden-data server.
  • Journal photos live in app-private storage. You control exports and Android's system backup settings.
Read the full privacy policy →

A note from the bloke who built it

Patchwise started with the gardeners in my life — the ones who've grown food for forty years and still check the frost forecast, and the ones who've just put their first tomato in a courtyard pot. I'm a gardener myself and understand the information I'd like to see. I've spent a lot of time and thought developing it, and I know this user base: you don't want another account, another app that nags, or your garden data sitting on someone else's server. You want to know what to do in your patch this week, in plain English, and you want it to work at the back fence.

That's why I made sure every critical element stays free — the whole plant database, the zone calendar, the "what to do now" list. The free app alone should be the best garden reference you can get, wherever you garden. I only ask that you consider unlocking Plus if you think it's worth it.

I appreciate every one of you for downloading — please reach out if you have any suggestions. Good gardening advice has always travelled by word of mouth: a mate showing another mate at the garden club, the Men's Shed, over the back fence. If Patchwise earns a place in those conversations, I'd love to hear about it.

— parkdeve

Talk to me directly: support@parktechsystems.com