Constantly having tech by your side doesn’t mean you’re becoming a couch potato. In fact, as the number of downloadable smartphone apps nears the 6 million mark, our devices have become our motivators and helpers along the way to fitness and fun.
Now, a new crop of gardening apps is making it easier for users to grow and harvest healthy vegetables in their own backyards.
Discover your green thumb with these gardening apps.
Planter
From knowing when to plant to visually plotting your garden with its drag-and-drop interface, the Planter app can help you envision and implement the garden you want. Planter will identify complementary plants that can grow together to get the best yields.
Platforms: iOS, Android
Garden Answers
Is that new plant in your garden a producer or a rogue weed? With the Garden Answers app, you can simply point your smartphone at the mystery plant and it’ll identify exactly what you’re looking at. It’ll also tell you if your plant has a disease or pest problem.
Platforms: iOS, Android
Seed to Spoon
The Seed to Spoon app features a growing guide with personalized planting dates for vegetables, fruits and herbs based on your GPS location. It also tells you the health benefits of various plants, as well as natural ways to control pests and diseases—including some helpful bugs.
Platforms: iOS, Android
Sun Seeker
What’s the best place in your yard to plant a garden? The Sun Seeker app will show you the path of the sun across your property in 3D augmented reality, identify the places of most prolonged sun exposure, and much more.
Platforms: iOS, Android
Before you get your garden growing, check out the latest smartphones and devices here to be sure you can run your new favorite apps.