App Shopper: Garden Plot (Reference)

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Apr 30 '11	$.99 -> Free
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Garden Plot

iOS iPhone

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Our Garden Plot app listed on http://www.myallotmentplot.co.uk/acatalog/Phone_Apps.html
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Garden Plot is a free application, its aim is to help you grow fruit, vegetables and herbs. Giving you detailed information on the produce and enabling you to plan out your garden space and what you are growing.

The app is free and has the following features:
- 15 growing guides, 5, veg (carrots, courgettes, garlic, runner beans, tomato), 5 fruit (apple, blueberry, pear, raspberry, strawberry) and 5 herbs (basil, chives, coriander, rosemary, thyme), giving detailed information on soil preparation, growing tips, harvesting, companion planting and best varieties

- Ability to buy supplies from within the app at the most competitive prices

- Ability to add produce to a favorites list, which is split into veg, fruit and herb categories

- Ability to track whats in your garden by adding produce that you are growing to 'My Garden' and then save specific details about the produce, such as variety grown, amount of produce harvest, whether its been a success and date planted. The estimates days to harvest will automatically be calculated for you.

- Ability to add multiple notes to each produce in your garden with an accompanying photograph, like a mini journal

- To do list where you can add 'to do' tasks, so next time you go to the garden centre you won't be racking your brains trying to remember what you came for!

- Search facility

- Calendar page, which details what needs to be done on a month by month basis

- Tips page which gives valuable tips on how to get that bumper harvest.

- The app is simple to use and fast

The app has the following additional functionality that can be purchased:
- All vegetable growing guides, 52 in total for £1.19

- All fruit growing guides, 25 in total for £1.19

- All herb growing guides, 29 in total for £1.19

- All produce growing guides, 52 vegetables, 25 fruits and 29 herbs for £1.79 – a big saving on buying them individually

- Bugs functionality for 59p, which details over 90 bugs that can affect your crops, giving both a detailed description and specific treatment for that bug

- Plot planner functionality for 59p. This will enable you to plan out your plots, adding produce to them and storing their variety. The planner supports succession planting, so you can make the most of any small area.

- All of the apps functionality for £2.39

NOTE: The sowing and harvesting times given on the vegetable schedule chart are specific to the UK & Ireland climate