Sprout has always been able to answer questions about your garden. Today it becomes something more useful: an assistant that can actually do the record-keeping while you're standing in the garden, with dirty hands and three jobs already competing for your attention.
Sprout handles the records.
One conversation can now update plantings, reminders, beds, harvests and maintenance history.
The important shift is scope. Instead of opening three Brussels sprouts plantings, logging the same event three times and then clearing three reminders, you can tell Sprout what you did once. It finds the matching active plantings in the current property, shows exactly what will change, and waits for you to confirm.
Watered every bed in the veggie patch this morning
Set Small raised bed 3 capacity to 85 percent
Move four strawberry plants into North bed
Log 500 grams from each Brussels sprouts planting
From one plant to the whole property
Sprout now understands the practical scopes gardeners use: this planting, every planting of this crop, this bed, this garden, or the whole property. Area-wide jobs create the garden or bed activity record and the linked planting events together, so reports and individual timelines tell the same story.
That covers watering, weeding, fertilising, treating, pruning, thinning, mulching, top dressing, composting, staking, netting, mowing, pest observations, disease observations and general maintenance. The friendly action you use is preserved even where the underlying timeline groups it into a broader maintenance category.
Work logged. Reminders cleared. One action.
Logging work and managing the task list used to be two separate chores. Sprout can now match completed work to pending reminders and draft both changes together. Only the reminders shown in the confirmation are touched, and recurring tasks still generate their next occurrence.
Fifteen jobs Sprout can now take off your hands
Log one job across a crop, bed, garden or property.
Record what happened and clear matching tasks together.
Complete, dismiss, reschedule or reprioritise a group.
Record the issue, treatment, product, rate and follow-up.
Fix recent Sprout actions without touching unrelated history.
Finish, harvest, fail or remove matching plantings cleanly.
Create practical recurring tasks and skip exact duplicates.
Log harvests, timeline events and task completion together.
Change capacity, irrigation, soil notes and other details.
Keep quantities and pending reminders correct as crops move.
Copy a crop into a dated sequence of future planting plans.
Finish a season and clear its leftover reminders in one pass.
Check bed history before recording the next planned crop.
Turn planned records into active plantings when they go in.
Track stock as packets arrive and material is used.
Plan the next crop without rebuilding it later
Sprout can now turn one existing planting into a properly spaced succession. Give it the first date, interval and number of rounds, and it drafts real planned planting records with the same crop, variety, quantity and location. When a planned crop actually goes into the ground, Sprout can activate the plan and add the planted event instead of asking you to enter the same crop again.
Rotation advice that becomes a real plan
Crop rotation is useful only when it survives the conversation. Sprout checks the selected bed's recent crop-family history, calls out same-family repeats, and then drafts the next crop as a planned planting in that bed. At the other end of the season, it can close out every matching active crop, record the closeout on each timeline and dismiss the reminders that no longer apply.
Know what is actually in the seed tin
Sprout now keeps property-owned inventory for seeds, seedlings, plants, bulbs, tubers and cuttings. You can add a packet, set a corrected count or subtract what you sowed, with variety, unit, storage location and expiry details kept on the item. Stock can never be taken below zero, and every change is shown in the same confirmation card before it is saved.
A proper pest workflow, not another loose note
If you spot aphids across a bed, Sprout can capture the observation against every affected planting, record what you treated them with and create a dated reinspection task. That turns a moment in the garden into a traceable chain: observation, response, follow-up.
Harvesting now closes the loop
Tell Sprout what you picked and it can create a harvest record for every matching planting, add the harvest to each timeline, clear linked harvest reminders and—only if you ask—mark the crop harvested. It can also adjust the real harvest window on planting records when conditions on the ground say the crop is running early or late.
Garden structure is part of the conversation too
The records around a planting matter just as much as the event history. Sprout can now update supported details on beds, gardens and the active property. That includes the deceptively useful jobs that are easy to postpone, like correcting soil notes, changing irrigation type or setting the planned capacity of a bed.
Moving and splitting are handled as real data operations rather than a note saying “moved”. If you move a planting, its pending reminders move to the new bed with it. If you split four plants from a group of ten, MyPlot leaves six in the original planting and creates a new planting of four at the destination—preserving the crop details and the total quantity.
Powerful, but deliberately not autonomous
A conversational interface should make repetitive work faster; it should not make consequential changes mysterious. Every new Sprout write follows the same three-stage pattern.
Natural language, including ordinary shorthand and typos.
Matched scope, record count and exact changes are shown.
Nothing is written until you press Confirm & save.
Recent Sprout-created maintenance actions can also be corrected or undone as a group. Undo removes only the events and follow-up reminders created by that action, restores reminders it completed, and leaves unrelated garden history alone. It is a narrow safety net, not a blanket history eraser.
Try it in the garden
Open Sprout from any page and describe the outcome you want. “Mulched the whole orchard.” “Push every overdue feeding task to Monday.” “Split three lettuces into the north bed.” “Set this bed's capacity to 85 percent.” Sprout will find the relevant records and show you the proposed change.
These workflows are live now. Sprout still answers garden questions, reads your planting history and uses your existing photo insights—but it can finally help keep the records up to date as well. Less tapping through forms, more time looking at the actual garden.