Deciding what to grow next season is one of the most consequential gardening decisions you make — and most people make it by browsing Instagram or flipping through a catalogue. The AI Crop Planner gives you a faster, better-informed starting point: suitability scores, rotation awareness, and calendar fit, all in one place before you commit to anything.
The planner works in three steps. You select the crops you're considering — from the plant library or by typing a name. The AI then scores each crop against your specific conditions: your climate zone, the current season, your beds' sun exposure, and what you've grown in the same locations before. You see a suitability score alongside a plain-language explanation of what's driving it.
A score of 92% for tomatoes in Melbourne in September means: good sun, right timing, no rotation conflicts in your beds. A score of 31% for broccoli in the same situation means: technically possible, but the heat will cut the season short and you'll get limited yields before summer sets in. That context — the why behind the score — is the part that's hard to get from a generic planting calendar.
The planner is aware of your bed layout. If you've grown brassicas in Bed 1 for two consecutive seasons, the planner flags it and factors that into the score. If Bed 3 gets afternoon shade, warm-season crops get scored accordingly. The scores aren't generic — they're specific to your garden's history and current configuration.
Once you've decided what to grow, committing those selections to your plan takes one tap per crop. Each becomes a planting on a specific date in a specific bed, already linked to the right plant profile. Reminders and care events follow automatically — so you go from planning to a fully configured garden record in a few minutes rather than setting everything up manually.
The crop planner is designed for use at the start of a season, but you can run it any time. If you've had a crop fail mid-season and want to know what to replace it with, the planner will score your options against your current conditions in real time.