One price. One garden. Year after year.
Cancel anytime, your data stays yours.
Free
To get to know Gartenkern with your own garden, with no time limit.
Included
- Gardens: 1
- Members: 1
- Photo storage: 100 MB
Shared images watermarked
Family
For your whole garden and everyone who helps.
No VAT is charged under § 19 UStG (German small-business rule).
Everything in Free, plus
- Gardens: 1 grows to 3
- Members: 1 grows to 5
- Photo storage: 100 MB grows to 5 GB
- Track lineage across years
- Crop rotation suggestions
- Season summary
- and 14 more features
Pro
For several plots and a closer look at your results.
No VAT is charged under § 19 UStG (German small-business rule).
Everything in Family, plus
- Gardens: 3 grows to 25
- Members: 5 grows to 25
- Photo storage: 5 GB grows to 50 GB
- Year album as PDF
- and 2 more features
- Cancel any time
- Start without a credit card
- Free stays free, no trial period
- Your gardens stay with you across the years
What actually sets them apart.
Most of Gartenkern is in every plan. These amounts and features are what separate them.
- Free
Gartenkern tells you when frost is coming, when to sow and when to harvest, for your location.
- Family
Plant your whole garden, bed by bed.
- Pro
Your garden year as a PDF to browse and print, plus your harvest compared with last year.
Garden and beds
2 differences- Soil recommendationsFree: not includedFamily: includedPro: included
- 1 more difference in the table
Plants and knowledge
3 differences- Companion planting suggestionsFree: not includedFamily: includedPro: included
- 2 more differences in the table
Across the years
3 differences- Track lineage across yearsFree: not includedFamily: includedPro: included
- Crop rotation suggestionsFree: not includedFamily: includedPro: included
- Season summaryFree: not includedFamily: includedPro: included
Gardening together
1 difference- Invite membersFree: not includedFamily: includedPro: included
AI assistant
3 differences- Photograph receipts and metersFree: not includedFamily: includedPro: included
- Automatic calendar suggestionsFree: not includedFamily: includedPro: included
- 1 more difference in the table
Reports and analysis
3 differences- Year album as PDFFree: not includedFamily: not includedPro: included
- Accounting export (DATEV)Free: not includedFamily: includedPro: included
- 1 more difference in the table
In every plan: 30 features
You get all of this in every plan, the free one included.
- Garden and beds
- Create your own gardens
- Upload photos
- Permaculture zone designer
- Keep a compost journal
- Tasks and reminders
- Calendar subscription for Google, Apple and Outlook
- Plan garden projects
- Plants and knowledge
- Create your own plants
- Spot diseases and pests
- Seed inventory
- Across the years
- Keep a journal
- Gardening together
- Post on the pinboard
- Create club events
- AI assistant
- Plant identification from photo
- AI chat for your plant questions
- Reports and analysis
- Harvest and cost balance
- Budget tracking
- Create utility meters
- Tool inventory
- Listings and swaps
- Post listings
Why an account?
The knowledge is yours without signing up. With an account it becomes your garden.
- No account
When do I sow lamb’s lettuce?
The encyclopaedia, the magazine and the plant diseases give you the knowledge, no sign-up needed.
- Free
Why should I sign up?
The knowledge turns into your garden: dates for your location, frost warnings, nothing gets lost. To get to know Gartenkern, with no time limit.
- 1 garden
- 10 plantings
- Family
Why should I pay?
Your whole garden fits in, everyone who helps is on board, and the planning aids join in: companion planting, follow-up crops, soil, weekly suggestions, season review.
- 3 gardens
- 200 plantings
- 5 members
- Pro
What do I need more for?
Several plots and a closer look at your results: the year album, the comparison with last year and the moon calendar.
- 25 gardens
All features in detail
What's in each plan, with the actual amounts.
| Feature | Free | Family | Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden and beds | |||
| Gardens | 1 | 3 | 25 |
| Photo storage | 100 MB | 5 GB | 50 GB |
| Create your own gardens | |||
| Quantities per batch | |||
| Upload photos | |||
| Permaculture zone designer | |||
| Keep track of your soil | |||
| Soil recommendations | |||
| View the compost journal | |||
| Keep a compost journal | |||
| Tasks and reminders | |||
| Calendar subscription for Google, Apple and Outlook | |||
| View garden projects | |||
| Plan garden projects | |||
| Plants and knowledge | |||
| Create your own plants | |||
| Notes on plants | |||
| Size class per plant | |||
| Spot diseases and pests | |||
| Companion planting suggestions | |||
| Seed inventory | |||
| Research new plants for you | |||
| Across the years | |||
| Crop rotation suggestions | |||
| Track lineage across years | |||
| Keep a journal | |||
| Season summary | |||
| Gardening together | |||
| Members | 1 | 5 | 25 |
| Invite members | |||
| Post on the pinboard | |||
| Edit your own pinboard posts | |||
| Create club events | |||
| AI assistant | |||
| AI plant identification | 3 per month | 50 per month | 200 per month |
| AI chat messages | 10 per month | 200 per month | 1000 per month |
| Plant identification from photo | |||
| AI chat for your plant questions | |||
| Read plant labels from a photo | |||
| Photograph receipts and meters | |||
| AI help for garden projects | |||
| Automatic calendar suggestions | |||
| Reports and analysis | |||
| Year album as PDF | |||
| Harvest and cost balance | |||
| Budget tracking | |||
| Accounting export (DATEV) | |||
| Custom expense categories | |||
| Delete custom categories | |||
| Create utility meters | |||
| Note down meter readings | |||
| Tool inventory | |||
| Listings and swaps | |||
| Post listings | |||
| Link listings to your garden account | |||
| Place garden listings | |||
| More features | |||
| Upload a profile picture | |||
School, kindergarten or club?
Institutions have a programme of their own: Gartenkern free of charge, with shared beds and separate logins for the group.
What you should know before signing up.
- With Free you set up your own garden and get to know Gartenkern at your own pace: sowing and harvest dates for where you live, frost warnings and your garden journal. Free has no time limit and needs no payment details. The amounts are deliberately small. Family fits a whole allotment or several helpers. The plan comparison shows how much each plan includes.
- Yes, anytime. Your plan runs until the end of the paid period, then you switch back to Free automatically. Your data stays untouched.
- Your data stays in your account. You can have it exported or deleted at any time. After a deletion, a 30-day grace period applies, then it is permanently removed.
- Both. Family supports 5 members: family, flatshare, garden friends, allotment club. Who joins is up to you.
- No. Free is for getting to know Gartenkern with your own garden, with no time limit and no payment details. You only add payment details when you switch to a paid plan.
- Yes. Family is available as a one-time purchase for €149. You pay once and keep access for good, with no running cost.
- We are a small business under § 19 UStG, so we do not charge VAT. The price you see is the price you pay. You receive a full invoice by email.
Still unsure? Try it.
Free isn’t a trial and has no time limit. Get to know Gartenkern with your own garden. If you need more, you switch.