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Everything for your garden. In one app.

Plan, tend, harvest, and look back across the years at what actually worked. Here is everything Gartenkern does for you.

12,000+
Plant varieties
7
Climate zones
Seasons remembered
01

Your garden, under control

Lay out & plan your garden

Draw your garden, on the map

Lay out your garden on the aerial view, draw beds and raised beds to scale and place plants right where they belong. So you always know what is where, and how much space is still free.

Aerial mapDraw bedsPlace plants
Today · Munich18° Rain

Great planting weather for tomatoes, the soil is warm enough.

Water basildone
Tomatoes outdoorsweek 19
My garden

One glance, and you are in the loop

Weather for your location, upcoming tasks and what ripens this week, all on the home screen. No searching, no forgetting.

Daily tasksWeatherReminders
Flowering
Tomato ‘Berner Rose’
Raised bed south
Sprouting
Basil
Kitchen window
Ripe
Zucchini
Middle bed
Plantings

Every variety, a profile

Location, variety, photo and status at a glance, from sowing to harvest. Like a plant passport, only alive.

May 2026Spring · weeks 18–22
PlantingCareHarvest
Planting & sowing calendar

Week 19 or 21? We know

Dynamic planting dates by climate zone and weather, and each season builds on the last. What grew where and when, Gartenkern knows.

Companion planting
Tomato+Basilgood neighbours
Tomato+Potatobetter apart
Rotation · bed 1
2024TomatoHeavy feeder
2025LettuceMedium feeder
2026BeansLight feeder
Companion planting & rotation

What fits together, and what goes where, when

Gartenkern suggests good neighbours and warns about bad ones, and remembers across the years what grew in which bed. So you plan crop rotation without exhausting the soil.

Good neighboursCrop rotationSoil health
Tomato ‘Berner Rose’Sow from week 10 · start indoors24 seeds
Basil ‘Genovese’Stock almost emptyrestock
Radish ‘French Breakfast’Sow from week 12 · outdoorsin stock
Seeds

Your seed stock, sorted

Which varieties do you have, what do you need to restock, when do you sow? Gartenkern keeps your stock and reminds you to start seeds in time.

Water raised bed 2today · dry & warmToday
Prick out basilPush & emailweek 20
Frost warning tonightBring pots inside2 °C
Reminders

Never miss the moment again

Gartenkern reminds you to water, prick out and plant out, and warns about frost or heat. Via push or email, exactly when it matters.

02

Observe, tend, harvest

12 May · week 19Tomato ‘Berner Rose’

First blossoms open. Pinched out and tied up today, smells wonderfully of tomato.

Journal

What you observe, stays

Notes and photos per plant, as a timeline over the season. Across the years it becomes your own garden almanac.

3.4 kg
Tomatoes harvested · season 2026
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Track harvest

How much was it really?

Record harvest amounts in grams, over the season and across the years. So you can see in black and white what pays off.

Season 2026 · your recap
14.2 kg
harvested
23
varieties
41
journal entries
Season recap

Your garden year, at a glance

At season's end Gartenkern sums up what grew: harvest amounts, best varieties and highlights from the journal, comparable year by year.

Harvest balanceYear comparisonHighlights
03

AI & knowledge

Tomato plant, close-up for AI variety recognition
Tomato recognized96 %
AI variety recognition

Snap a photo, variety recognized

Photograph the plant, the AI helps identify it, even old heritage varieties. Add it to your bed with a single tap.

When can the tomato go out?
In your zone after the ice saints, for you from mid May (week 20). The soil is already warm enough.Source · your location
AI garden advisor

Knows your garden

Questions about weather, varieties and care, answered with reference to your location and your plants, always with sources.

Solanum lycopersicum
Tomato
SowingMarch – April
Locationfull sun
HarvestJuly – October
CompanionsBasil, marigold
Plant library & variety passport

A reference work, that grows with you

Variety portraits with sowing and care data, companion-planting tips and local planting dates, written plainly, without the long search.

12,000+ varietiesCompanion plantingCare tips
04

Together & everywhere

Ben harvested 1.2 kg of zucchini · 2 hrs ago
Carla watered the raised bed · this morning
Together in the garden

One garden, many hands

Family, flatmates or gardening friends share the same garden. Whoever waters or harvests logs it, everyone sees the same state, in sync.

Family & friendsActivityGarden exchange
WebLiveiOSSoonAndroidSoon
all in sync, your garden always with you
Works everywhere

Web today, apps to follow

Start right away in the browser, no install. iOS and Android are coming, and keep everything in sync.

Ad-free
No data selling
Export anytime
Yours across the years
A calm tool

Ad-free, no data selling

No ad noise, no tracking madness, no selling your data to third parties. Gartenkern is funded by fair subscriptions, not by your attention, and a full export is always available.

Tools12 devices
Expenses84 € season
Compost3 batches
Measurements18 °C soil
For ambitious self-growers

Tools, costs & measurements

For those who want more: manage tools and compost, record expenses, connect sensor data (Tuya, Aqara, Home Assistant), and export everything as PDF or CSV.

CompostToolsExpensesMeasurementsReports
How it works

In three steps in the bed

1

Set up

Create your garden, add your first planting in under two minutes, via photo recognition or from the library.

2

Tend

Gartenkern reminds you to water, prick out and plant out. Notes and photos land in the journal.

3

Harvest

Record amounts, close the season, and next year you know exactly what worked.

Ready to know your garden?

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