Patchwise

Patchwise logo — four shapes: sun, leaf, seed and soil

Patchwise — Aussie Edible Garden Guide

Never wonder what to do in your patch again.

Look up any edible plant, tell us where you are, and see exactly what to do in your patch right now.

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Knows Australia — five climate zones, AU varieties, AU seasons.

The Patchwise Today screen for a Temperate-zone patch in July, listing this fortnight's jobs: sow direct, transplant seedlings, feed, prune, net against pests and harvest

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.

  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

    Just a postcode — or tap your spot on the map. Patchwise sets your climate zone and frost window, and you can adjust it any time. Your gully knows best.

  3. See this fortnight's jobs

    What to sow, plant, feed, protect and pick in your patch, right now — in plain Australian English.

Everything a food garden asks for

Built for Australian backyards — the climate, the pests, the varieties, and the gardeners.

  • 280+ Aussie edibles

    Vegetables, herbs, fruit trees, berries and vines — including named Australian varieties like tomato 'Grosse Lisse' and mango 'Kensington Pride'.

  • 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 & climate-zone aware

    Your postcode sets your zone and frost window. Advice for Hobart is never advice for Cairns — and 40°C days 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

    Queensland fruit fly, cabbage moth, possums and more — identified for your area, with 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 database lives on your phone and works at the back fence, where there's never any reception. Plant photos just download once on first view.

  • No account, ever

    Everything works from the first open, and everything stays on your phone. There is no Patchwise server.

  • Backup & restore

    Export your whole patch — plantings, tasks, journal, seeds and photos — as a single file, and move to a new phone whenever you like.

A look around the app

Real screens, big type, nothing hidden behind menus. Scroll sideways to see more.

Patchwise plant guide for tomato showing pest control advice for Queensland fruit fly
Pests, with organic controls
Adding a journal entry in Patchwise with photo and note options
A journal page in seconds
Adding a passionfruit planting to My Patch in Patchwise
Planting in, timeline made
A Patchwise plant story opening on a tomato planted 18 October 2025, with the first dated entry and its photo
The story begins
Later entries in the same plant story: first flowers in November, green fruit in December, and the first harvest in January
…and rolls through the season
My Patch in Patchwise, listing an active tomato planting with its tasks and harvest window
My Patch, at a glance

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 subscribing 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 & fortnightly do-now list
  • Unlimited plantings, tasks & harvest windows
  • Seed box & custom plants
  • Backup & restore
  • Works offline

The free tier alone should be the best AU garden reference available.

Simple subscription

Patchwise Plus

AU$14.99 /year

or AU$4.99 a month. Cancel in two taps.

  • 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

Your subscription will help with development and hosting costs.

Why so cheap?

No servers, no games

Priced below every comparable app.

  • No accounts, no cloud — 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

The privacy policy is short because there's almost nothing to disclose. The whole app is built so your garden lives on your phone — full stop.

  • No account, no sign-up, no email address required.
  • No analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no crash-reporting SDKs.
  • Everything you enter stays on your phone. There is no Patchwise server.
  • Journal photos live in the app's private storage and leave your device only when you export a backup or a PDF yourself.
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 Australian garden reference you can get. I only ask that you consider subscribing 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