GrowVeg

Overview

GrowVeg is an online garden planner for designing vegetable gardens, including plots of various shapes, pathways, irrigation, and fencing. It generates plant lists with spacing, planting dates, and harvest times tailored to user location via frost dates, supports succession planting, and sends email reminders.¹²³⁴

Key Features

• Garden Design - Draw simple or irregular plots, add pathways, irrigation, fencing, and arbors.
• Plant List - Provides spacing, planting dates, and harvest estimates based on location-specific frost dates.
• Planting Reminders - Sends email notifications for indoor seeding, direct sowing, and successions.
• Irrigation Modeling - Plans drip irrigation lines and nodes, generates shopping lists.
• Succession Planning - Calculates multiple planting cycles for extended harvests.
• Variety Selection - Choose specific plant varieties with details and notes.
• Garden Journal - Log activities, performance notes, and plans.
• Sharing - Share plans with community and view others' designs.

Pricing

Platforms & Requirements

GrowVeg runs as a web application in any modern browser, with no downloads or installations required. No specific minimum requirements mentioned; accessible on desktop and likely mobile browsers. Limitations include reliance on internet access and no native mobile app.¹²⁴

Integrations & Ecosystem

• Email reminders
• Community plan sharing
• Irrigation shopping list export
• Plant journal notes
• Location-based frost date import

Alternatives

Reputation

GrowVeg receives positive feedback for its intuitive interface, flexibility in designing irregular plots, and practical tools like reminders and irrigation planning.¹²⁴⁵ Users value the location-tailored planting info and journal for tracking yields and rotations.² Some note it can induce stress by highlighting overdue tasks during growing season.³ Independent reviews are published and verified.⁶