GardenPal: Garden by the Moon

1000+ plants, moon planting guide, companion charts. Grow in sync with nature.

GardenPal: Your Moon-Guided Garden Companion

Whether you're planting a vegetable garden, growing herbs on a balcony, or cultivating a permaculture homestead, GardenPal helps you garden in harmony with lunar cycles and nature's rhythms.

Why GardenPal?

For centuries, gardeners have planted by the moon — sowing leafy greens during the New Moon, fruiting crops at First Quarter, and root vegetables after the Full Moon. GardenPal brings this ancient wisdom into your pocket with real-time lunar calculations, a 1000+ plant database, and climate-smart growing advice.

Core Features:

• Moon Phase Planting Calendar — Real-time lunar phase calculations with specific gardening advice for each phase • 1000+ Plant Database — Vegetables, herbs, fruits, flowers, trees, houseplants, mushrooms across 13 USDA hardiness zones • 145 Custom Plant Icons — Beautiful hand-drawn botanical illustrations • Companion Planting Charts — Discover which plants thrive together (and which to keep apart) • Climate Zone Detection — Automatic USDA hardiness zone lookup with frost date predictions • Garden Photo Timeline — Track plant growth from seed to harvest with visual progress tracking • Task Calendar — Smart reminders for planting, watering, harvesting aligned to moon phases • 7-Day Weather Forecasts — Integrated weather with frost warnings • Seasonal Care Guides — Month-by-month plant care recommendations

Perfect For: Moon Gardeners — Plant by lunar cycles using traditional biodynamic methods Permaculture Practitioners — Companion planting, guilds, and polyculture design Vegetable Gardeners — 400+ vegetable varieties with planting times and spacing Herb Growers — 150+ culinary and medicinal herbs Homesteaders — Fruit trees, ground covers, perennials for self-sufficient gardens Beginner Gardeners — Simple moon phase guidance and care instructions Organic Gardeners — Natural pest control via companion planting

GardenPal calculates moon phases in real-time and provides phase-specific planting advice: • New Moon (Waxing) — Best for leafy greens, broccoli, cabbage, celery, spinach • First Quarter — Perfect for fruiting crops like tomatoes, peppers, squash, beans • Full Moon (Waning) — Ideal for root vegetables, potatoes, carrots, beets, onions • Last Quarter — Time for maintenance, weeding, composting, transplanting

1000+ Plants, Climate-Smart Filtering: Browse vegetables, herbs, fruits, flowers, trees, houseplants, mushrooms, and ground covers — all filterable by your USDA hardiness zone. GardenPal auto-detects your zone or lets you set it manually. Companion Planting Made Easy: Know which plants boost each other's growth and which should never be neighbors. GardenPal shows companion and antagonist relationships for every plant in the database. Garden Timeline & Photo Tracker: Document your garden's journey with photos. Track growth rates, see progress over weeks and months, and learn from each season. All photos stored locally on your device.

Weather & Frost Alerts: Integrated 7-day weather forecasts help you plan planting days. Get frost warnings automatically based on your location and hardiness zone.

Privacy First: • 100% offline — no internet required (weather optional) • No account needed • Zero data collection or analytics • All garden data stays on your device • Location is optional and manual (no GPS tracking) • No ads, no tracking, no cloud sync

One-Time Purchase, Yours Forever: No monthly fees. No hidden costs. Pay $3.99 once, use GardenPal forever. We believe gardeners deserve simple, honest pricing.

What Gardeners Are Saying: "Finally, a moon planting app that actually shows WHY each phase matters. The companion planting charts are gold." — Permaculture Gardener "1000+ plants is incredible. I've found varieties I didn't even know existed." — Vegetable Grower "Beautiful design, works offline, respects my privacy. This is how apps should be built." — Homesteader