Draw your garden, plant by plant
Lay out your beds on a living map. Place plants, draw paths, and see your whole garden at a glance — in a style that feels like a garden journal, not a spreadsheet.
Free garden planner — save plants, plan beds, and get sowing reminders for your spot.
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Plan your garden. Track every plant. Get gentle nudges.
Built for real gardens, not streaks.
Plants in catalog
Companion pairings
Pests & beneficials covered
Kinship Core
Every recommendation, companion pairing, alert, and suggestion — derived from pest biology, root science, and botanical research. No guesswork. No fabrication.
Lay out your beds on a living map. Place plants, draw paths, and see your whole garden at a glance — in a style that feels like a garden journal, not a spreadsheet.
Every plant comes with sowing windows calculated for your exact location, spacing guides, and days to maturity. No more guessing when to start your tomatoes.
A living timeline for every plant in your garden. Sow, transplant, and harvest windows calculated for your exact location — and companion planting hints that keep your garden healthy before problems start.
Wake to a one-screen digest of what your garden needs today. Gentle nudges — skip what doesn't apply, done in a minute.
Every planting, every harvest, every care event — logged and remembered. See your whole season at a glance.
Trade surplus seeds, share harvests, follow fellow growers nearby. A marketplace built for gardeners, not Facebook groups.
I built this because every garden app I tried felt like it was made by a programmer, for a programmer. Confusing menus, no joy, nothing that felt personal. I have a large garden and a greenhouse — I needed something that actually fits how I think about plants, not how a database thinks about them.
Pernille
Gardener &
Founder of Garden Kinship
Yes — free to start, no credit card needed. One garden, unlimited plantings. Premium unlocks more gardens, photos, and advanced planning features.
No ads. No streaks. No engagement loops. Just a notebook for what grows in your patch.
Start your garden — it's freeYes. Garden Kinship uses your garden's GPS coordinates to compute local frost dates and sowing windows — not generic hardiness zones. Works anywhere in the world.
800+ species including vegetables, herbs, fruits, flowers, and trees — with sowing windows, spacing, days to maturity, and companion planting info. New species added regularly.
Not at all. One raised bed or a windowsill of herbs is enough to get started. Gentle nudges, no nagging.
Yes. The marketplace lets you give, sell, or swap seeds and plants with gardeners near you or by post.
Your gardens are private by default. You choose what to share publicly — nothing is visible to others unless you turn it on.
The garden overview, planting tracking, and reminders all work on mobile. The visual garden designer works best on a larger screen.
Yes. The companion planting engine suggests attractor plants that bring beneficial insects into your garden — natural predators that keep common pests in check without sprays or schedules.
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