AnnouncementReleasev1.9.5

Plant smarter, grow more — the biggest PlotMyGarden update yet

14. Juni 2026Vladimir

We've been quiet for a while, and there's a reason: we've been building the biggest update in PlotMyGarden's history. This release turns PlotMyGarden from a garden planner into a season-long growing companion — an assistant that can plant beds for you, a living record for every plant you grow, frost warnings that read the actual plants in your beds, a community to grow alongside, and a redesign that touches nearly every screen. All of it now in English, German, and Spanish.

Here's everything that's new.

Meet your AI co-gardener

The in-app assistant grew up. It went from a read-only Q&A box to a genuine co-gardener that can build and edit your garden for you — placing, moving, swapping, and removing plants on your canvas from a plain-language request.

It knows your garden. Every question carries your real context: your plot size and mode, every plant you've placed and its growth stage, your city and hardiness zone, the current temperature, and a 7-day forecast. Ask "what should I put next to my tomatoes?" and the answer is about your tomatoes, in your zone.
It can do, not just say. Tell it "plant a companion bed in the empty corner," "move my basil away from the dill," or "fill this row with pollinator plants," and it finds the space, validates the layout, and places real plants — companion, grid, or single-row beds included.
Photo identification (Pro). Snap a photo of a struggling plant and the assistant describes what it sees, identifies the likely species and any disease or pest with a confidence level, and gives you two or three things to do today.
It speaks your language. Replies always come back in your language — English, German, or Spanish — no matter what language you ask in.
Safe by design. Big changes — removing several plants or clearing a bed — pause for a confirmation that names exactly what will go. Every action has a one-tap Revert, hovering an action highlights the cells it touched, and a single undo rolls back the whole turn.

Free gardeners get one assistant message a day; Pro raises that to ten.

My Plants: a living record for everything you grow

The My Plants page is completely rebuilt around the real life of a plant. Instead of one generic card for everything, each plant shows up in the card that fits where it actually is — Wished, Seed store, Planted, Seedling, Growing, or Harvest-ready — with a status strip across the top that counts what's in each stage at a glance.

Tap any plant and a single detail drawer opens with its whole story:

A photo roll. Add progress photos straight from your phone — including iPhone HEIC shots, which we decode for you. Every upload is auto-optimized, dated, and privately stored, and each one can carry a note that saves as you type.
Pest & disease observations. Log what you're seeing in one tap — Slugs, Aphids, Yellowing, Bolting, Wilt, All good, or Other — with a severity (Mild / Moderate / Severe) and an optional note. The drawer keeps a rolling two-week health history so patterns jump out.
Care for this week. The reminders for that specific plant, each with a tick-to-complete checkbox.
A journal and lifecycle stepper, plus the right action for the moment — schedule a sow, advance a stage, log a quick Watered / Fed / Pruned, or finalize the plant at season's end.

When you finish a plant you can record how it went — harvested, died, or cleared — including a cause of death and how many seeds you saved. That quietly builds a crop history of what grew where, so future-season rotation guidance can warn you against replanting the same family in the same soil.

Care reminders that think about your plants

PlotMyGarden now generates specific, dated reminders for each plant and keeps the cadence going on its own: watering, feeding, staking, repotting, transplanting, harvest windows, and seed-saving. Watering intervals come from each plant's real needs — and outdoor plants are skipped automatically when rain is in the forecast. Tick one off and the next is scheduled for you; you'll never get a pile-up of duplicates.

Timeline: your whole garden year, at a glance

The Timeline is now its own page and a proper sow-to-harvest chart. A "this month" banner tells you what's in the ground, what to sow, and what's ready right now. Click any plant to open a day-by-day lifecycle track with a TODAY marker, the tasks to do this week, and a conditions card showing today's sun hours, when you last watered (it turns urgent after a few days), and a companion plant already in your garden.

Plant something in several batches and each batch gets its own track. A side rail keeps an "up next" queue across the whole garden and flags closing windows — "your carrots' sowing window closes in 6 days" — tied to your zone and frost dates. On a phone the whole thing reflows into a clean single column.

A real harvest journal

Logging a harvest now feeds a beautiful year-by-year journal. The Harvest page opens on a hero — "a year of picking" — and your total weight with a year-over-year change, then:

A daily heatmap of every day you picked, brightening with frequency, marked with where your frost-free window opens.
A winners' podium — gold, silver, and bronze crops — sortable by weight, number of picks, or recency.
A monthly trend chart and insights: your best month, longest picking streak, most frequent crop, and how many days earlier you got your first pick than last year.
The full ledger and a breakdown of which garden yielded most.

Logging a pick is a quick guided step-through where you can record multiple measurements at once and mix units — kilograms, grams, pounds, pieces, bunches, leaves, cuttings, heads, cobs — with "save and log another" for fast batch entry. (We also fixed a quiet bug where grams were being counted as kilograms.)

Discover: grow from the community

The old templates page is now Discover — curated layouts and real gardens from the community, side by side. Browse by Featured, New, or Most-liked, filter by difficulty and hardiness zone, and heart the ones you love. Every template shows how many gardens it has "grown."

Start from any template in one click. It lands in your account as a fresh draft and opens in the editor, ready to edit freely. The template itself is a frozen snapshot, so it never changes under you.
Submit your own garden. Once a garden has grown a full season, has at least three different species, and is fully laid out, you can submit it for review (typically published within a few days). You keep editing your own garden while it's pending, get credit on every garden grown from yours, and earn a Master Gardener badge once a hundred gardeners have grown it.

Frost warnings that actually know your garden

Frost alerts are no longer generic. PlotMyGarden looks at each plant you've placed — where it is (in the ground, in a pot, indoors), its stage, and its cold tolerance against tonight's forecast — and tells you exactly what to do:

Cover tender seedlings or bring pots in for a late-spring cold snap.
Rush the soft crops at first autumn frost — but leave the hardy brassicas, which only get sweeter.
Mulch roots and wrap young trunks for a deep-winter freeze.
And, honestly, when a tender plant is past saving, it says so instead of telling you to fleece it at minus eight.

A drill-down sheet groups your plants by what to do — cover, move indoors, harvest now, mulch, wrap, or accept the loss — each with a "mark done" check. Smart frost is a Pro feature; everyone keeps the simpler alert.

Underneath it all:

Real frost dates for your exact spot, computed from two decades of local climate data and refreshed automatically as you move.
Genuinely accurate hardiness zones. We replaced the old latitude-guess with a global climate pipeline accurate to about 2.5 km (it used to put Reykjavík in zone 1–2; it's really 7b–8a). It auto-detects, you can override it by hand, and it drives your recommendations, sowing windows, almanac, and frost estimates everywhere.
A weather card that survives outages — current conditions, a five-day forecast, and heat, heavy-rain, storm, hail, and drought alerts. If the weather service goes down, you see yesterday's data instead of a blank card. (Storm and hail warnings can't be silenced — they matter too much.)

A redesign you'll feel on every screen

A new dashboard. A personal greeting and "day of the season" counter, an at-a-glance strip of tasks today, plants in the ground, and harvests in the next 30 days, a season-and-almanac card with today's daylight length and your frost dates, your gardens with live previews, and a "plant this month" row of zone-appropriate suggestions.
A redesigned editor. A richer plant inspector with real plant photos, a working Grow care workflow (stages, tasks, observations, harvest logging, notes — all saved), and faster catalog loading. Growing-season plants no longer get a false "not in season" warning.
Mobile editor parity. The phone editor now does what the desktop one does: plant photos, hardscape elements, a grow-stage picker, and the Plan/Grow toggle — plus a stack of touch fixes so tap-to-place and tap-to-select just work.
A redesigned gardens list and a new Settings hub — six clear areas for your profile, preferences, notifications, billing, and account.

In Settings you can now set your measurement units and temperature unit independently (metric lengths with Fahrenheit if you like), your language, default garden size, week start, and date format, and fine-tune notification groups for your garden, daily reminders, and weather.

We plant your first garden for you

New gardeners go through a quick, guided start — your goal, your experience, your location, and a few plants you'd like to grow — and instead of dropping you onto an empty grid, PlotMyGarden builds you a real garden with those plants already in it and shows you a year-round timeline of what's ahead. From there you can start a free 7-day Pro trial or keep gardening on the free plan. (Email verification no longer blocks you from getting started — a gentle banner reminds you instead.)

Billing and account, fully in your hands

Invoices. View and download your full invoice history as PDFs, any time — even if you've since moved back to the free plan.
One-screen plan management. No retention maze. A single dialog to keep your plan, switch between monthly and yearly (with a real, honest preview of any proration), or cancel — and your gardens and data are never deleted when you do. Cancelled by mistake? One button resumes it.
Your data is yours. Export everything as JSON or a readable CSV, see and revoke active sign-ins (or sign out everywhere), and close your account yourself whenever you want.
Invoices are now tax-compliant with VAT shown correctly, and your total is unchanged.

A brand-new front door — now in German and Spanish

The public site has an all-new landing page with an animated editor demo, a live sowing board that reads your real hardiness zone and shows what to sow right now, an interactive planner, and pricing in your local currency.

And the whole app — every new screen above included — is now fully available in German and Spanish, professionally translated, not machine-stubbed.

Plus a long list of smaller wins

New plants: Golden Alexander and Saskatoon Berry, each with full photo sets and care data.
A deeper wishlist: rich plant cards with a 12-month planting calendar, your growing history, clearer "Must plant / Want / Maybe" priorities, and an "in season now" filter — add plants from anywhere in the app.
A command menu with the right keyboard shortcut for your OS (⌘K on Mac, Ctrl+K elsewhere).
Trial emails to help you make the most of your Pro trial on day 1, 5, and 7.
New Cookies and Imprint pages, with Privacy and Terms rewritten to match the real product.
Faster plant pages, steadier weather, and a long tail of mobile and reliability fixes.

What's free, and what's Pro

The free plan gives you one garden, the editor, 1,015 plant guides, and the essentials. Pro unlocks unlimited gardens, the AI co-gardener with photo identification, My Plants, the year-round Timeline, the Harvest journal, the wishlist, smart frost warnings, and Grow mode — for $10/month or $100/year, with a 7-day free trial.

Thank you for growing with us. An enormous amount of this came straight from your feedback — keep it coming, and here's to your best season yet.

— The PlotMyGarden team