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These Gardening Apps Will Help You Get a Green Thumb

Get ready for a new growing season with these gardening apps.

by Brent Dirks

Gardening Guides and Tips

When you need a little help making your garden grown, turn to apps with tips, instructions, and advice.

My Garden: Inspiration To Grow

Scotts Miracle-Gro

For those who want a gardening app with clear instructions and location-based tips.

With Gro. Garden Ideas Designed for You and Your Yard, you can personalize your gardening preferences. The app then provides ideas for plants and projects based on your location’s temperature and season. Gro. identifies plants and lets you know how to care for them, gives step-by-step plans to help grow your garden, and provides handy reminders.

Why we love it

Grow a beautiful garden with plans, reminders, and tips with Gro.

FREE More info

Garden Pro!

Sebastian Burrieza

For those who want a gardening app with a task list, journal, and a pest and disease guide.

Garden Pro! is a full-featured app to help you plant and care for your garden. Features include multiple-location management, plant task lists with notifications, a pest and disease guide, and a journal to save notes and images. The app references over 12,000 plants in 16 categories so you can find just the right ones for your garden.

Why we love it

Whether you are a beginning gardener or have your field of dreams, Garden Pro! is a terrific tool to keep your garden growing.

$3.99 More info

GrowIt!™ The Plant Community

Ball Horticultural Company

For those interested in a gardening app with a helpful community, plant identification, and tips.

With GrowIt! Garden Socially, you can join a community of gardeners just like you. Find the types of plants you should be growing in your yard, see what others are planting nearby, and upload photos of your gorgeous garden. The app offers plant identification, garden project planning, a search feature, and a garden shop locator.

Why we love it

Why grow it alone when you can join a community to share tips, tricks, and ideas? GrowIt! Garden Socially is not only a fun way to share your love of gardening, but also provides handy features and help.

FREE More info

Fruits and Veggies

If you are interested in growing delicious fruits and vegetables in your garden, then these apps are for you.

Vegetable Tree - Gardening Guide

Mohammad Azam

For those who want a vegetable gardening app with tips, tricks, and an interactive calendar.

With the Vegetable Tree - Gardening Guide app, you can start by browsing the extensive catalog. Then, get tips and tricks for growing your vegetables, track your progress with both words and photos, and use an interactive planting calendar. The app also provides vegetable filtering by season, companion plant details, and related insect information.

Why we love it

For help planting, growing, and caring for your vegetables, the Vegetable Tree - Gardening Guide is an easy-to-use and great resource.

$4.99 More info

Skippy's Vegetable Calendar

Katherine Martin

For those who want a calendar-based vegetable gardening app.

Skippy's Vegetable Planting Calendar app lets you personalize your planting based on your location and by season. Choose from over 100 vegetables, add your garden’s frost date, and the app will provide you with a calendar where you can view to-dos by week. Plus, you can check out the calendar for the entire season so you can prepare for your tasks.

Why we love it

Skippy's Vegetable Planting Calendar gives you a convenient way to grow your garden with weekly tasks for the whole season.

$4.99 More info

Plants and Blooms

Grow a beautiful garden of flowers and plants with the help of these apps.

Purdue Perennial Doctor

Purdue University

For those who want a flower gardening app with identification and problem-diagnoses.

The Purdue Perennial Doctor is a handy tool for those who have a flower garden. The app offers detailed descriptions of problems and damage in stages to help you care for your perennials. You can also check out the flower identifier and see recommendations for managing over 100 types of flowers.

Why we love it

Tackle your flower garden problems before they get worse. The Purdue Perennial Doctor can help diagnose the issue and show you how to manage it.

$0.99 More info

uFlowers

United Softhouse

For those who want a flower gardening app with a plant catalog, task list, and calendar.

With the uFlowers app, you can get information for watering, spraying, and fertilizing your plants. Use the built-in to-do list and helpful calendar with notifications to manage your gardening tasks. You can also browse or search the full-color flower catalog and add your own photos.

Why we love it

For help with your flower garden, uFlowers app offers plant details, care information, and notifications from the built-in calendar.

$1.99 More info

Plant Identifiers

Find out what that plant you see is along with how to grow it using handy identification apps.

Smart Plant & Tree Care

Garden Compass, LLC

Receive identifications and gardening advice from experts. Garden Compass offers 50 experts to help with your gardening needs. Get fast plant and pest identification, use the built-in care calendar, and review recommendations for your garden.

Garden Answers Plant Id

Gardens Alive

Get all the plant details by snapping a photo. Garden Answers Plant Identification helps you identify over 20,000 plants. Just capture a photo, hit submit, and get details on the plant. The app also offers a searchable database and the ability to save favorites.

SmartPlant: Plants Made Simple

SnappTech Ltd

Identify plants and garden pests quickly and easily. SmartPlant provides details on plants and garden pests with your photos. The app also provides a care calendar, expert advice, recommendations, and seasonal reminders.

Gardening Magazine Apps

For beginning gardeners or experts, gardening magazine apps keep you in the loop and give you ideas.

Better Homes and Gardens

Meredith Corporation

Organic Gardener Magazine

nextmedia Pty Ltd

The English Garden Magazine

Chelsea Magazine Company

Modern Gardens: Makeover Tips

Bauer Media (Publishing)

Garden Answers

Bauer Media (Publishing)

Gardening Australia Magazine

nextmedia Pty Ltd

Garden News

Bauer Media (Publishing)

Fine Gardening Magazine

Taunton Interactive

Australian House & Garden

Are Media Pty Limited

Good Organic Gardening

Universal Magazines Pty Ltd