Welcome to Gartenkern

Wooden basket with freshly harvested tomato (Tomate) and pepper (Paprika) on a barrel, a garden path behind — A good garden remembers – every variety, every harvest, every year.· Photo: NPS · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

Nice to have you here. Gartenkern is garden software for people who take their garden seriously — the allotment, the raised bed on the balcony, the nursery, or the few pots on the terrace. We’re building something that will accompany your garden for years, not just a season.

This first entry is a brief welcome: what Gartenkern is meant to become, and what happens next.

What Gartenkern is

Allotment with raised beds, bean stalks, and a greenhouse — Your garden, just as it really stands – bed by bed, row by row.· Photo: Kolforn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Imagine a memory for your garden. You set up your beds, pots, rows, and greenhouses — graphically, just as they really are. Add what grows in them: plants, varieties, trees, with photos, notes, and what you observe year after year.

Over time, this data becomes valuable: you can see when Tomate ‚Berner Rose was last planted, which variety survived a wet summer, and when the first frost came.

What you do with it

Set up your garden — beds, pots, greenhouses, and planting rows, graphically and clearly.
Record plants — with varieties, photos, and your own notes that grow over the years.
Identify varieties by photo — take a picture of a plant, and Gartenkern helps you determine it.
Garden together — a garden account for the whole household or family.
Get warned in time — for example, about impending frost before it hits the delicate plants.

Over years, not days

Wooden table with freshly harvested vegetables: zucchini, tomato (Tomate), beans, Swiss chard (Mangold), and sunflowers — Some things only show up in the third year. Gartenkern remembers them for you.· Photo: The Green Ark – Bostanie · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

A garden is a patient project. Some things only become apparent in the third year. That’s exactly what Gartenkern is for: it remembers things you’ve long forgotten — which local variety performed well, which spot was too shady, when the gooseberry (Johannisbeere) first started to set fruit properly.

And: Gartenkern is ad‑free. Your garden isn’t an advertising space.

The beta starts soon

Several people together laying out a garden bed, with spades and wheelbarrows — Soon we’ll open Gartenkern for the first gardeners.· Photo: Petty Officer 2nd Class Adam Cole · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

We’re just about to launch the beta phase. In the coming weeks we’ll open Gartenkern to an initial group of gardeners — on the web and natively for Android and iOS.

Until then: thanks for dropping by so early. We look forward to getting to know your garden.