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PlotMyGarden v1.5 — AI Gardener, Pro Launch & a Rebuilt Mobile Experience

1 de mayo de 2026Vladimir

PlotMyGarden v1.5 is the largest release we've ever shipped — months of work since v1.2. This release brings the Pro plan to life, ships an AI gardening assistant that knows your gardens by heart, adds automated care reminders so the app remembers what your plants need before you do, and rebuilds the entire mobile editor experience. Plus a wishlist system, command-palette search, deep editor and dashboard improvements, and dozens of polish fixes.

Here's everything that's new.

AI Chat Assistant — Your Garden's Resident Expert

Open any garden and start a conversation. The new AI gardening assistant has full context of what you're growing, when you planted it, and what stage everything is in.

Streaming conversations — answers appear as they're generated, in real time
Garden-aware — knows your plant list, layout, hardiness zone, and the current month
Photo identification — snap a photo of a leaf, pest, or unknown plant and ask "what is this?"
Conversation history — every chat is saved per-garden and picks up where you left off
Suggested questions — get smart prompts based on what's actually in your garden right now
Multi-language — fluent in English, German, and Spanish; matches your locale automatically
Higher daily limits for Pro — Free includes a generous daily allowance for casual use

Every conversation is private to your account.

Pro Is Now Available

Pro is live. Subscribing unlocks the features built for gardeners who want to track, learn, and improve season after season.

Grow Mode with full growth-stage tracking
Harvest recording with date and quantity for every harvest
Watering and care reminders tailored to each plant in your garden
Higher daily limits for the AI gardening assistant
Unlimited wishlist with priority levels and per-plant notes
Yield analytics dashboard (in active development)
Everything new — your subscription automatically includes future Premium features as they ship

Monthly or yearly. Cancel anytime; you keep Pro access until the end of your billing period.

Launch Discount for Early Adopters

To celebrate v1.5, Pro is launching with a special discount for early subscribers. Visit the Pro page to see your offer — this is the best price Pro will ever be, and it stays locked in for as long as your subscription is active.

Watering & Care Tasks — Smart Reminders

Grow Mode now does the bookkeeping for you. The new task engine watches what you've planted and surfaces reminders at the right moment.

Optional watering reminders — opt in per garden, get nudged when it's time
Per-stage care tasks — fertilize, support, repot, transplant, harvest-window, seed-saving, regrow
Grouped by priority — high-priority (today) up top, lower-priority below
Mark complete or dismiss — clear them as you handle them; no duplicate reminders
Recurring schedules — fertilizer reminders return on the right cadence per plant
Garden-specific — tasks belong to a specific garden, not your whole account

Tasks are computed live from your garden's plants and growth stages — no manual setup beyond toggling the feature on per garden.

Per-Stage Care Guides for Every Major Plant

Building on the v1.2 translations, every major plant page now has structured care data per growth stage — not one generic blob of text but specific instructions for every life-cycle phase.

Stage-by-stage guidance — what to do at germination, seedling, vegetative growth, flowering, harvest, and dormancy
Watering frequency per stage — daily, every other day, twice weekly, weekly
Fertilizer schedule per stage — type, dose, every-N-days
Light requirements per stage — hours per day, sun vs. shade
Soil & spacing — depth in cm, spacing in cm, germination temperature
All three languages — every plant, every stage, fully translated to English, German, and Spanish
Drives the task engine — the same data powers the care reminders

Tens of thousands of individual care instructions, available in your language on every plant page.

Multi-Screen Onboarding Flow

First-time users now get a guided welcome flow instead of being dropped into an empty dashboard.

Welcome screen — quick intro to what PlotMyGarden does
Garden setup — pick a starter template or design from scratch
Pro discount offer — early-adopter pricing for new users
Pro upsell screen — learn what Premium adds, decide later if you want
Skippable — anyone who knows what they want can jump straight to the dashboard
One-time — never shown again once completed

Existing users skip the flow entirely on their next login.

Pro Onboarding Tours

For users who upgrade to Pro, two new interactive product tours show off what just unlocked.

Pro Upgrade Tour — a guided walkthrough of Grow Mode, watering tasks, harvest tracking, and yield analytics, triggered automatically after upgrade
Pro Signup Tour — a separate walkthrough for users who sign up directly into Pro from the landing page
Skippable, one-time — both can be dismissed and won't reappear
Non-blocking — point-and-click overlays that follow your navigation

Plant Wishlist

Found a plant you want to grow but can't fit in your garden right now? Add it to your wishlist.

One-click add — heart icon on every plant page and search result
Per-plant notes — jot down why you want it, where you'd put it
Priority levels — high / medium / low
Persists across devices — saved to your account, syncs everywhere
Premium for unlimited — Pro users get unlimited wishlist; Free users save a generous starter set

Command Palette Search

Press ⌘K (or Ctrl+K on Windows) anywhere in the app to open a search bar that finds everything at once.

Plants — search across all 1,015 plants by name in English, German, Spanish, or scientific
Your gardens — jump to any garden by name or description
Quick actions — create a garden, open settings, etc.
Typo-tolerant — fuzzy matching so a misspelled name still finds what you meant
Categorized results — gardens, plants, and actions clearly separated
Keyboard-first — arrows to navigate, Enter to select, Esc to dismiss

Mobile Editor Overhaul

The garden editor on mobile has been rebuilt from the ground up.

Pinch to zoom, drag to pan — feels native on touch screens
Tap to select, long-press for actions — clear gesture model
Optimized rendering — smooth even with hundreds of plants per garden
Floating toolbar — keyboard-aware, never hidden behind the on-screen keyboard
No more horizontal overflow — small screens stay clean
Polished dashboard and profile — horizontal tab bars, better card sizing, fixed sidebar-offset bugs

Editor Improvements

Multi-select with marquee — drag a box around plants to select them all, then move/copy/delete in one action
Finer placement snapping — quarter-cell precision for tighter, more realistic layouts
Block info panel — click any cell to see spacing, expected yield, germination time, and soil preferences for that plant
Tabbed plant sidebar — Overview / Care / Companion / Pests-and-diseases tabs replace the endless scroll
Editor toolbar polish — back button and zone badge moved into the toolbar; sidebar metadata strip unified
Sidebar auto-close on selection — fewer clicks to manage your view
Dynamic plant name sizing — names auto-scale and wrap based on cell size
Smoother canvas pan/zoom — performance optimizations across the board

Garden Timeline (Gantt View)

A new view that shows your garden's planting and harvest schedule as a Gantt chart.

Per-plant timeline — when to start seeds, transplant, harvest
Month-by-month view — visualize the whole season at a glance
Hardiness-zone aware — adjusted to your location
Drives task timing — the same data feeds the watering and care reminders

Seasonal Plant Carousel & Template Gallery

The dashboard now surfaces what's in season and which templates fit your situation.

Seasonal plants carousel — a horizontal scroll of plants ideal for the current month in your zone
Template gallery — beginner gardens, herb boxes, three-sisters layouts, and more
Drag-to-scroll on touch — feels right on mobile
Snap-to-card — clean stops, no half-visible cards
Smooth scroll UX — buttery animations, momentum preserved

10 New Detailed Tomato Variant Pages

Tomato gets the spotlight: 10 dedicated variant pages with full growing guides translated to all three languages.

Real photos — every variant has actual photographs (not stock illustrations)
Pest photo gallery — visual reference for hornworm, blight, blossom-end rot
Variant-specific care — pick the right tomato for your garden's conditions
Linked to Grow Mode — choose a variant when you plant, get variant-specific reminders

Translation & Polish

Plant category badges — now properly translated in command palette search results
Calendar month names — fixed missing translations across the editor calendar
Search is language-independent — search "tomate" in German and find tomato; search "albahaca" in Spanish and find basil
Language switcher UI — cleaner, mobile-friendly
Spanish plant page images — fixed broken image references across the Spanish-language plant catalog

Plant Suggestion Form

Don't see a plant you grow? Let us know.

Submit a suggestion form — name, scientific name, category, why it should be added
Browse the queue — see what others have suggested
Vote on suggestions — Pro users get higher voting weight
Status tracking — under-review, planned, in-progress, shipped

Bug Fixes

Add to Garden when you have zero gardens — was failing silently; now opens the create-garden flow
Inventory wasn't properly per-account — now correctly isolated to your account, with separate inventory per garden
Companion-planting sidebar highlights — now correctly highlights companions as you hover
Yearly Pro pricing savings — was showing wrong percentage; now accurate
Editor search returning English-only results in DE and ES — now returns matches in all three languages
Location wasn't persisting — was lost on logout; now stored per-account
Companion sidebar selection — fixed highlighting bug on certain plant categories
Password visibility toggle — added to login and signup forms (was missing)

What's Next

Yield analytics dashboard — harvest data with charts, season-over-season comparisons, harvest predictions (Pro)
Community features — share gardens publicly, comment, follow other gardeners
Automatic garden planning — generate a layout from your seed inventory and goals
AI gardener photo memory — let the chat assistant remember plants you've shown it across conversations
More AI gardener capabilities — proactive suggestions based on weather, season, and your garden's stage

Thank you to everyone using PlotMyGarden and sharing feedback. Every update gets better because of your input — the AI assistant, the watering tasks, the wishlist, the mobile editor rebuild, and dozens of polish fixes were all shaped by what you've told us.

Happy gardening!

Stay up to date on our Updates page, and visit the Roadmap to vote on features and share your ideas.