Gardens
A garden is a named outdoor zone within your property. Most properties have 2–5 gardens. The key is to split by purpose or physical location — not by what's planted.
What belongs in its own garden?
Vegie patch
Raised bed 1, raised bed 2, compost row
Orchard
Apple, lemon, perennial zone
Greenhouse
Seedling bench
Front yard
Native border, ornamental strip
Split by place or purpose
A garden should feel like one meaningful zone when you are standing there, not just one crop category.
Good examples
Vegie patch, orchard, greenhouse, and front yard all deserve separate garden records because they behave differently.
Not worth splitting
Twelve pots in one pot cluster usually belong in one garden with many beds, not twelve separate gardens.
If you could stand in one spot and survey all the beds in a garden, it's one garden. If you have to walk to a different part of the property, it's probably a separate garden.
Creating a garden
- Go to Gardens in the sidebar and click Add garden.
- Give it a name that describes the zone — "Vegie patch", "Greenhouse", "Back orchard".
- Optionally add notes about soil type, aspect, microclimate, or growing conditions.
- Save — then add beds from the garden detail page.
The visual garden designer
Each garden has an optional visual layout tool. Access it from the garden detail page via the Designer button.
- Drag beds onto the canvas to reflect their real-world positions
- The layout is saved and shown on the garden detail page
- Useful for planning crop rotation and spotting companion planting opportunities
- Click a bed on the canvas to navigate directly to it
Garden detail page
The garden detail page shows all beds in that garden, the active plantings across those beds, and a summary of what's currently growing. It's the best starting point for understanding what's happening in a specific zone.
Tip: Don't over-split. A "Pot collection" garden with 12 containers is fine. Creating 12 separate gardens for 12 pots makes navigation unwieldy.
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