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Leaftide features: everything the garden planner app does

Leaftide plans and keeps the whole garden in one place: vegetable beds, pots, fruit trees and perennials, on one map and one calendar. Below is each feature in a sentence, then what Leaftide doesn't do.

Everything below is on the free plan except the daily digest email and your own fertilizers, suppliers and soil mixes.

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Leaftide plot designer showing a whole garden plan: a patio with pots, herb and flower borders, vegetable beds, a fruit corner and a lawn.

Plan the garden

Draw the garden you actually have, to scale, then decide what goes where this year and next.

  • Plot designer

    Draw beds, pots, paths, walls and fixtures such as sheds, greenhouses, benches and trellises to scale, with ground and surface textures.

    Plot Designer Guide

  • Your space

    Every bed, pot and plant in the ground on one page. Each bed is drawn with what's growing in it, pots stand on shelves by size, and opening one shows what's planted there.

    Your space in Leaftide on a phone: a raised bed of lettuce and spinach and a fruit bed of rhubarb and gooseberries, each drawn as it grows, then shelves of pots with mint, oregano and basil, and lettuce, petunias, strawberries, a chilli in a terrazzo cube and a geranium

  • Create your own pot

    Pick one of ten shapes and set its size, then a finish (terracotta, glazed, wood, metal and more), any colour, a pattern and a rim colour. The drawing changes as you go, and Your space draws the pot the way you made it.

    Leaftide's pot designer on a phone: a new pot named Blue spotty pot, drawn round in blue glaze with pale dots, 30 × 30 × 28 cm and 12 L, above the ten shapes to choose from

  • Satellite or drone photo underneath

    Trace your layout over satellite imagery of your address, or line up your own aerial photo and draw on that.

  • Square-foot grid

    Lay out a bed in 30 cm (1 ft) squares holding 1, 4, 9 or 16 plants each, or plant it in blocks or rows.

  • Companion planting

    Each crop in a bed shows which of its bed-mates help it and which to keep apart. You can switch the markers off.

    Companion Planting Checker

  • Crop rotation warnings

    Each bed keeps up to 10 years of planting history. Put a crop where it, or a crop of the same family, grew in the last 3 years and you get a warning; you can still go ahead, and Leaftide doesn't draw up rotation plans for you.

    Leaftide history of a raised bed, one row per year from 2023 to 2026, crops colored by family, with a warning that tomato follows potato from 2025 and both are nightshades.

  • Succession planting

    Each crop in a bed shows when it will clear. "Plan what comes after" puts the next crop in that spot, and an empty spot shows the date it comes free.

    Vegetable Garden Planner

  • Ready-made garden plans

    Preview a ready-made plan and adopt it into your own garden as a starting point.

  • Soil and compost

    See how much soil and compost your beds and pots need each year, next to what you have already bought.

  • Public garden page

    Share a read-only page of your garden at its own link. Visitors don't need an account.

    Garden Gallery

Timing and reminders

Dates are worked out for your location from its frost dates and climate, then show up on the dashboard, on your phone and by email.

  • Sowing, planting-out and harvest dates

    Every crop gets its sow, transplant and harvest windows from your location's frost dates and climate data.

    Frost Date Finder
    Leaftide planning a French bean: a good time to start in your area from 27 May to 19 July, a suggested sowing date, and what to expect, from sowing outside on 6 June to picking on 5 August.

  • Can I grow it here?

    Pick a crop on the dashboard and see whether your growing season has enough warmth for it.

  • Harvest predictions from growing degree days

    Leaftide adds up the warmth each planting gets (growing degree days) to estimate when it will flower, fruit and be ready to pick.

    Leaftide stage list for a tomato: sown, germinated, potted up, hardened off, planted out and flowering now, with fruiting predicted for 19 June, harvest for 9 July and clearing for 30 September.

  • Coming Up

    The dashboard lists what needs doing today and in the next 7 days, overdue jobs included, and you tick them off right there.

  • Frost alerts that name your plants

    When frost is forecast, a dashboard card and a push notification name the plants to protect. Without push, the alert comes by email.

  • Seed-raising reminders

    Reminders tell you when to sow, pot up, harden off and plant out, and ask whether perennial seedlings have come up.

  • Heated starts

    Mark a sowing as started indoors on heat, and its dates are worked out at your indoor temperature until it goes outside.

  • Rain-aware watering

    Log when beds and pots were watered. When rain is forecast, Leaftide asks whether it rained, and one tap counts the rain as watering for the plants outdoors.

    Leaftide Watering page: groups of patio pots and bed crops with when each was last watered, from 3 hours to 3 days ago, and a potted hydrangea marked overdue.

Plants, trees and records

Seasonal crops and permanent plants follow different lifecycles, and Leaftide keeps them apart. What you log stays with each plant from year to year.

  • Permanent plants and fruit trees

    Fruit trees, berries, shrubs and perennials stay in the garden year after year, and each plant's stage dates are learned from what you log.

    Perennial Plant Tracker
    Leaftide event history for an apple tree: a winter prune, a feed with compost mulch, leaf bud break, flowering, fruit developing and a note that the fruit set well this year.

  • Care routines, sprays included

    Set recurring pruning, feeding and spraying tasks for each plant, log every spray's product and amount, and pause a routine for the season.

  • Orchard blocks

    Look after a row or block of trees of one variety as a single item. Each tree still counts toward the free plan's permanent plant limit.

    Fruit Tree Tracker

  • Multi-graft trees

    Record a tree with several varieties grafted onto one trunk as a single tree.

  • Propagation batches

    Log cuttings (softwood, semi-ripe or hardwood), divisions, layers and runners. A reminder tells you when to check for roots, rooting rates are kept by season, and rooted plants join your garden.

    Leaftide Propagation page: six softwood hydrangea cuttings rooting in perlite on day 12, due a roots check on 17 June, and past results for chives divided into three, rosemary 75% rooted and strawberry runners 83% rooted.

  • Harvest log and Season Review

    Record each harvest's amount and quality, then look back over the year in Season Review.

    Leaftide Harvest Report: 1.9 kg harvested in total, with rhubarb 'Timperley Early' the top performer at 1.6 kg, and the harvest by weight for rhubarb, strawberries and lettuce.

  • Journal with photos

    Keep dated notes and photos, linked to the plants they are about.

  • Pest and disease sightings

    Log a pest or disease when you see it, so you know when to look out for it next year.

  • Pests and diseases for each plant

    Each plant's guide lists the pests and diseases that commonly affect it.

  • Plant catalogue

    1,200+ plants, 1,000+ of them permanent, and 1,500+ named varieties, plus any varieties you add yourself.

    Plant Library

Apps, reminders and your data

One account on your phone and computer, in your language, and your data is yours to download.

  • iPhone, Android and web

    The native apps for iOS and Android and the web app share one account.

  • Six languages

    Use Leaftide in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch or Italian.

  • Daily push reminders

    On days something is due, your phone gets a reminder at the time you choose.

  • Weekly digest email

    Once a week, an email with what's coming up in your garden.

  • Daily digest email Pro

    An email each day with the tasks and reminders coming up.

  • Full data export

    Download everything as JSON or CSV in one zip file, photos included.

Free and Pro

The free plan has no time limit and needs no card. Pro lifts its limits and adds a few extras.

Free

No time limit, no card

  • 15 seasonal plantings a season
  • 30 permanent plants
  • 10 pots
  • 5 custom varieties

Every feature on this page is included except the daily digest email and your own fertilizers, suppliers and soil mixes.

Pro

Everything in Free, plus:

  • No free-plan limits on plantings, permanent plants, pots or custom varieties
  • Your own fertilizers, suppliers and soil mixes
  • The daily digest email
See Pro pricing

What Leaftide doesn't do

Worth knowing before you sign up, in case one of these matters to you.

  • No offline mode

    Leaftide needs an internet connection, in the apps as well as on the web.

  • One garden per account

    You can't keep two separate gardens, such as a home garden and a community plot, under one login.

  • No shared editing

    Only the account owner can change the garden. Others can see your public page if you share it.

  • No AI plant identification

    Leaftide doesn't identify plants or diagnose problems from photos.

  • No import from other apps

    Plans and records from other garden apps can't be imported.

  • No seed inventory

    There is no list for keeping count of the seed packets you have.

  • No calendar export

    Dates and tasks can't be sent to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or another calendar app.

Questions about Leaftide's features

Does Leaftide do crop rotation?

Yes. Each bed keeps up to 10 years of planting history, with crops color-coded by family. Placing a crop where it or its family grew in the last 3 years shows a warning, and you decide whether to go ahead. Leaftide doesn't draw up rotation plans for you.

Can Leaftide keep records for fruit trees and perennials?

Yes. Fruit trees, berries, shrubs and perennials are permanent plants with their own care routines, sprays, harvests and stage history, and orchard blocks and multi-graft trees are supported. The free plan includes 30 permanent plants.

Does Leaftide work offline?

No. Leaftide needs an internet connection, on the web and in the iOS and Android apps.

What does the free plan include?

Every feature except the daily digest email and your own fertilizers, suppliers and soil mixes, for up to 15 seasonal plantings a season, 30 permanent plants, 10 pots and 5 custom varieties. It has no time limit.

Plan the garden you actually have

Free for 15 seasonal plantings a season and 30 permanent plants, on the web, iPhone and Android.

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