While I have been trying to include some edibles within my landscape, I am not so into veggies that an app would benefit me all that much. When we move and have more land, that will likely change.

I do like BeeSmart though. It has a nice database of bee-, butterfly- and bird-friendly plants that you can narrow by choosing which critter you wish to attract or what color blooms you are looking for or function (host or nectar).

I installed UF's garden app back in January and while I would love to promote it, it still seems quite broken and lacking in its plant database. And from the lack of updates, I am not sure anyone is even actively maintaining it.

Real gardeners don't need apps.

Hi Bea,

I think we use/want them for different purposes, but I use an Excel spreadsheet to keep up with my plants. I track gardening purchases, "inventory", and gardening planting, chores, maintenance, repotting, etc. Since I do not grow vegetables, I don't have or need harvest dates. However, when I need reminders for anything - birthdays, appointments, change the oil, or whatever ,- I have an awesome reminder add-in in my Firefox browser called ReminderFox. I have been using it for at least five years and absolutely love it. I put gardening reminders into that. Here is a link:

ReminderFox
Carol in Jacksonville

I've been looking for an app as well, for veggies, trees and shrubs...tried a couple of them a while back and couldn't find anything I liked. So, I've been keeping track of things in a composition note book...

Now after seeing this thread I went back and checked the google play store and found what looks like a decent one called Plant Diary. I'm going to give it a try and will report back.

Well thanks everyone for the suggestions. I too couldn't find one that I love so I will continue to use my spreadsheet like Carol which I created years ago. Like Kate I'm a committed iPhone geek and live by it. I guess I'll continue to use its reminder for planting and harvest dates. Happy gardening everybody!

When it comes to apps of this sort, I prefer databases over planners. I am trying to do the old-school, traditional garden diary for recording what I have planted, where it is planted and how well it does (not) work. That's why I like the BeeSmart app and so wanted to like the UF app. The UF app is supposed to look at your zipcode and give you a list of UF certified list of plants that would work in your area, which means, to me, it won't include invasives. It is also supposed to give push notifications as to when to do what with each plant in your yard. It does this by providing you with a virtual yard where you can layout your landscape. Not exactly something that I want or need, but it was a nice feature.

Unfotunately there are numerous issues with the app, not least among them being that the database is very limited. I think for my zipcode it says there are only 5 perennial plants that would work. If I put in a very nearby zipcode, I can bump that number up to 8, but that is still a very small and incomplete list.