Season plan

A season plan turns “here is what I want to grow” into a finished plan: what goes in which bed, how many, and the exact dates to start seeds, transplant, and harvest. You build a seed wishlist, Evengrow generates the schedule and placement, and when you are happy with it you accept the plan and it becomes real plantings and dated tasks in your garden.

Use it at the start of a season, before anything is in the ground, to plan the whole year in one pass instead of deciding crop by crop. You will find Season plan in the main navigation, in the Work group next to Workload.

How it works, start to finish

Create a plan. Give it a name and a year, and set your frost dates (see below). One garden can have several plans (a draft you are still working on, last year’s archived plan, and so on).
Set your frost dates. The planner schedules everything backward from your last spring frost and first fall frost, so these two dates anchor the whole plan. They are prefilled from your garden if you have set them, and you can edit them on the plan at any time.
Build your seed wishlist. Add each crop you want to grow: pick the variety, choose how many, and set a priority. See Building the wishlist below.
Generate. Tap Generate plan. Evengrow runs two steps: it works out the dates for each crop (start indoors, harden off, transplant or direct sow, and the harvest window), then places the crops into your beds without overfilling any bed at any point in the season.
Review the result. Check the Schedule and Tasks tabs, and read any warnings (see Reading the plan).
Accept the plan. Tap Accept plan to write it through. Every placement becomes a planting (marked planned) plus its dated tasks, which then show up in your Workload forecast and on Today as their dates arrive.

You can change the wishlist and tap Regenerate plan as many times as you like before you accept. Regenerating replaces the proposed plan; it never touches plantings you have already accepted.

Building the wishlist

If AI is on for your account, the fastest way to start is the Describe what you want to grow box: type a plain goal like “a salad garden for a family of four” and tap Add from description. Evengrow reads your garden (its climate, beds, what you already grow, and the seeds you own) and fills the wishlist with a tailored set of crops, quantities, and priorities, which you can then edit or add to by hand.

For each seed you add by hand:

Variety: search your catalog and pick a variety. If it is not there, you can add it on the spot.
How many: choose Exact count and a number, or As much as fits to let the planner fill the available space with that crop.
Priority: 1 is highest. When there is not enough room for everything, higher-priority crops get placed first.

Remove a seed with the Remove button next to it. Add as many as you want before generating.

Reading the plan

After you generate, the result appears in two tabs:

Schedule: how the season fills your beds, with three views you can switch between. Timeline (the default) is a chart with one row per bed and a colored bar for each crop showing how long it occupies that bed, from sowing through the end of its harvest. Crops that do not overlap in time share a row, a line marks today in the season, and you can reorder the bed rows to match how you think about your garden. Map draws the plan onto your garden layout: each bed sits where it does on your map, filled with whatever is growing in it on the date you pick with the slider. Drag the slider through the season to watch crops come and go bed by bed (a crop shows the same color here as on the Timeline). If you have not laid out a garden map yet, the Map view falls back to a simple grid of your beds. List is the same placements as a plain list, each with its quantity and key dates, plus a Why? button on every crop that explains the planner’s reasoning — why it goes out when it does (its frost tolerance against your frost dates), when to start it indoors and harden it off, when to expect a harvest, why there are several sowings, and why it landed in that bed. The explanation is always there, even offline; when AI is on you can tap Put it in plain English for a friendly master-gardener summary of the same reasoning. A crop sown in several rounds across the season (succession) shows each round in every view.
Tasks: the dated to-dos the plan will create when you accept it, in date order. Start seeds indoors, harden off, transplant or direct sow, and begin harvesting.

If AI is on for your account, a What else could I grow? button sits below the views. Tap it and Evengrow looks at your generated plan — the space still free, any months with no harvest, and which families you have already leaned on — and proposes a few high-value additions: a crop to fill a spring or fall gap, one more succession where there is room, or a companion that improves resilience. Each suggestion has a one-tap Add that drops the crop on your wishlist; regenerate to place it. If your plan already uses the space and season well, it will say so rather than pad the list.

The planner never silently drops a crop. If something does not fit or cannot work, it tells you:

Out of space: there was not enough bed capacity for the full quantity you asked for. The plan places what it can and reports how many were left over. Lower a quantity, raise a priority, or add a bed and regenerate.
Will not finish in time: the crop cannot mature before your first fall frost from its earliest start date.
Outside your zone: the variety’s hardiness range does not include your zone.
We guessed: scheduling details are not on file for that variety yet, so the planner used sensible defaults. The dates are approximate until the variety’s details are filled in.

How crops are placed

The planner treats each bed as space over time, so two crops that do not overlap can share the same bed across the season (spring greens, then summer beans). It also:

Keeps each bed within capacity at every point in the season, not just in total.
Routes climbing crops to vertical supports.
Skips beds you have marked reserved, and perennial zones.
Matches a crop’s sun needs to the bed.

Tip: The more complete your beds are (size, sun, and which are reserved) and the more variety details are filled in, the better the plan. With less information the planner falls back to reasonable defaults and flags what it guessed.

Plans and tiers

Building a plan and seeing the full schedule and placement is free, so you can try it on your whole garden before deciding. Accepting a plan (writing it through to real plantings and tasks) is an Advanced feature. See Plans and billing for what each tier includes.

Note: The season plan is rolling out gradually and may not be switched on for your account yet.