Tools for better decisions

Start with the question in front of you.

Plant now, wait, protect, or observe—without hiding the assumptions.

Each tool combines practical crop knowledge with the conditions you enter, then links the result back to deeper guides and field records.

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Top-down garden plan with four raised beds, paths, irrigation, water access, and crop rotation arrows.
Useful planning connects beds, timing, crop families, paths, water, and records.

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Observe & compareGarden Decision Lab

Explore sunlight, purposeful companion planting, disease conditions, pruning and harvest timing with visible sources.

Interactive · Cited guidance Weather historyCompare Growing-Season Weather

Compare a 2026 snapshot from three Massachusetts stations with matching dates in 2023–2025. See coverage and download the source dataset.

NOAA archive · Not a live feed Property & layout Garden Planning Studio

Find a Massachusetts parcel, draw beds and structures, place crops with spacing checks, and compare 2D and 3D canopy.

New · Massachusetts pilot Profile & records Garden Notebook

Save reusable frost dates and honest soil overrides, then keep planting, harvest, weather, and problem notes.

Private account notebook Today What Can I Plant Today?

Turn frost dates, measured soil temperature, Extension benchmarks, and an optional NWS forecast into ranked, explainable crop decisions.

Live forecast · Ready Spacing Plant Spacing Reference

Use mature plant size, airflow, root room, and harvest access to avoid overcrowding.

Ready Planner What Grows in This Bed

Compare crops using sun, soil, frost dates, soil temperature, rotation history, and garden goals.

Ready Season Seasonal Calendar

Use seasonal rhythm, frost risk, and soil conditions to time garden work.

Ready Water Watering Depth Guide

Understand root-zone watering, mulch, crop differences, and stress signals.

Ready Records Garden Field Notes

Record planting, weather, watering, pest pressure, harvest, and lessons in a local journal.

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veggie.farm keeps reference data, horticultural guidance, modeled conditions, and your garden observations separate.

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Data foundation

Plant records first

The planner depends on trustworthy plant data. The reviewed evidence layer retains 165 planting, spacing, depth, yield, germination, transplant, site, and care facts from five Cooperative Extension organizations as individually cited records.

Read & explore Search the Gardening Library

Find a guide by crop, growing problem or topic. Search the article text as well as titles.

 Plant pairings Planting Together

Think through space, timing and the purpose of growing plants together.

 Database Plant Database

Search varieties and compare spacing, seed depth and germination, with links to their sources.

 Planning Garden Planning: What Works Today

Choose between site features, planted beds, seasonal tools and records; understand what is saved where.

 Journal Garden Records

Turn a dated observation into a next decision, and understand the local journal’s scope.