Sprout just got a lot smarter — 9 new capabilities

Sprout has always been able to answer questions about individual plantings and care events. This update goes much further — nine new tools that give Sprout a proper view of your whole property, your plant library, your season's harvest data, and the ability to actually do things: log a pick, tick off a reminder, record a note, or reschedule a task. All from a conversation, without navigating to a different page.

The five read tools came first. Sprout needed to be able to see your garden before it could act on it.

Tool 1 — Garden summary. The most common question people have when they open MyPlot is "what's actually going on right now?" — across the whole garden, not just one planting. Before this update, Sprout had no way to answer that. You'd have to navigate to the garden page yourself and piece it together.

Sprout now pulls harvest window status, overdue reminders, upcoming tasks, and recent activity into a single response. Ask about any garden by name, or ask "what needs attention across all my gardens?" and it scans everything.

Tool 2 — Activity log. Plenty of garden work isn't tied to individual plantings — mowing schedules, irrigation runs, spray programmes, orchard maintenance. That work has always been logged in MyPlot, but Sprout had no window into it. When you asked "when did I last spray the orchard?" it couldn't answer.

Sprout can now search your activity log by garden, date range, or action type. "When did I last spray the orchard?" gets a direct answer. "What happened in the veggie patch last fortnight?" returns the full thread. It surfaces the kind of operational history that's genuinely useful when you're standing in the garden trying to remember what you did.

Tool 3 — Upcoming reminders. The Reminders page shows everything, but sometimes you just want to know what's actually due in the next few days without navigating away from what you're doing. Sprout previously had no access to your reminder schedule at all.

Ask "what's due this week?" and Sprout scans every garden you manage, returning reminders in date order with garden and bed context. You can also ask further out — "anything due in the next month?" — or narrow it to a specific garden. It respects your include-overdue preference by default.

Tool 4 — Plant profiles. Sprout could already answer questions about plants you've grown based on your event history. But what about plants you're considering? What spacing does silverbeet need? What are the companion planting options for brassicas? What pests should you watch for on stone fruit? For anything not in your own records, Sprout had to rely on general knowledge rather than the curated data in the MyPlot library.

Sprout now draws directly from the MyPlot plant library — over 400 profiles with spacing, companions, germination, pest and disease notes, and harvest guidance. Ask about any plant whether or not you've grown it, and you get the library data rather than a generic answer.

Tool 5 — Harvest summary. You could already ask Sprout to retrieve individual harvest entries. What you couldn't do was ask "how much did I pick total?" or "which crop performed best this season?" — that required going to the Harvests page and doing the maths yourself.

Ask "how much silverbeet did I pick this season?" and Sprout aggregates all your harvest entries for that produce and gives you the total. Ask "what were my top five crops last year?" and it ranks them. Useful at the end of any growing period when you're planning what to repeat, scale up, or drop.

That covers the five read tools. The four write tools work differently — rather than returning information, they take action. And every one of them shows you exactly what it's about to do before writing anything.

Tool 6 — Log a harvest. The harvest form requires you to open it, select the garden, pick the produce, enter the quantity, choose the unit, and save. When you're coming in from the garden with your hands full, that's five steps too many.

Say what you picked, how much, and where. Sprout resolves the garden and bed from the name, builds a draft entry, and presents it for your review. Confirm and it's saved. If anything looks wrong — wrong bed, wrong quantity — you can correct it before it's written. Nothing is saved without your explicit approval.

Tool 7 — Complete a reminder. Ticking off a reminder usually means navigating to the Reminders page, finding the right task among potentially dozens, and clicking Done. If you've just finished watering and you're still at the tap, that's not something you want to do.

Sprout searches your reminders by title, finds the closest match, confirms what it found, and waits for your go-ahead. Repeating reminders are handled correctly — completing one schedules the next automatically. If Sprout finds multiple matches, it asks you to clarify rather than guessing.

Tool 8 — Create a garden note. Observations that don't fit neatly into a planting event — general garden conditions, things you noticed on a walk, decisions you want to record — previously had no natural home unless you navigated to the activity log and added a manual entry.

Sprout saves notes directly to your garden activity log, tagged with today's date and the relevant garden. It's the fastest way to capture something while it's fresh — conditions, decisions, things to follow up on — without it getting lost in a notes app somewhere else.

Tool 9 — Update a reminder. Sometimes a reminder needs to move. The season shifted, you weren't ready, conditions weren't right. Editing a reminder the normal way means opening it, changing the date, and saving — fine on a desktop, less convenient on a phone in the garden.

You can also update the title, priority, or notes on a reminder — not just the date. Sprout finds the reminder by name, shows you what it's about to change, and waits for confirmation. Quick adjustments that used to take several taps now take one sentence.

All nine tools are live in Sprout now. Open any garden page and tap the Sprout icon, or use the assistant panel from anywhere in the app. The tools work together — you can ask a question, get context, then take action all in the same conversation. That's the point: fewer page navigations, more time doing the actual gardening.