The Gardening Diary
Every seed you own,
and the exact week to start it.
The Gardening Diary is an online gardening database built for home gardeners. Catalog your seed stash, and the garden tracker counts backward from your own frost-free date to tell you when to sow.
Sow dates from your own frost date
Zone-aware · USDA 1a–13b
Every record editable, forever
Yours alone · no ads, ever
What it does
A packet of seed is a promise. This keeps it.
🌱 Sowing windows, calculated
Enter growth weeks once. The Gardening Diary subtracts them from your frost-free date and hands you a sowing window — early and late — for every record in your stash.
🌿 Plantings that remember
Start a planting from any seed and it arrives as a full copy of that record. Change what this year needs; the packet record stays as it was.
📖 The season, written down
What worked, what did not, and the weather that day — with the photographs to prove it.
“I had four years of seed packets in a cookie tin and no idea what was still viable. Two evenings with The Gardening Diary and I knew exactly what to order — and what I already had three of.”
— Jennie, zone 5b
Start with one packet.
Add a single seed record and the whole season dates itself from your frost-free date.