7 Gardening Apps Perfect For Summer Upskilling
Spring and summer are the best seasons to get outside and enjoy your garden. Whether you’re a seasoned green-fingered professional or a gardening beginner, it’s always enjoyable to potter around in your outside space. To provide a digital helping hand for all your gardening needs, GardenBuildingsDirect.co.uk has put together a list of the best apps to download this spring and summer.
“For a novice gardener with absolutely zero knowledge of plant care and maintenance, trawling the internet in search of help and advice can be time consuming and frankly quite daunting,” a GardenBuildingsDirect.co.uk said. “Instead, these apps will help inform you and log tonnes of information to help you grow and keep stunning plants and gardens all year round.”
Here are the top 7 gardening apps you’ll love, from a helpful digital care calendar to a plant identifier…
1. Garden Answers
One of the most useful tools for any gardener is a plant identifier, helping you become a walking encyclopaedia of all British garden plant species. Garden Answers is an easy-to-use and incredibly popular identification app that can instantly define over 20,000 plants, coming with some very useful information. Take a snap of the plant you want to identify, press ‘submit’ and you’ll have the answer.
Garden Answers – available on iOS and Android
2. SmartPlant
Not only does the SmartPlant app help you identify plants but also provides a ‘Digital Care Calendar’ to reveal everything your garden, and the plants within it, need. You can personalise the app by adding the specific plants you have in your garden and the app will notify you of their requirements.
SmartPlant – available on iOS and Android
3. Gardening Companion
The Gardening Companion app can help you track your garden’s progress, care for your plants and access a wealth of gardening knowledge. It’s certainly a useful friend to the green-fingered.
Gardening Companion – available on iOS
4. My Soil
Yes, you’ve guessed it – this app is all about soil. It comes from the British Geological Survey and enables you to check the soil in your local area, in terms of soil type, depth, pH, soil temperature and organic matter content. This can help you work out which plants will flourish in your locale.
My Soil – available on iOS and Android
5. Garden Plan Pro
Gain expert knowledge and help with planning a vegetable, herb or fruit garden with Garden Plan Pro. The simple tools aid layout designing, plant arrangement, and tracking garden progress.
Garden Plan Pro – available on iOS
6. GardenTags
Offering plant advice, inspiration and gardening tasks, the GardenTags app allows gardeners to share helpful information and tips between each other. Your plant care will be sorted with this app, which can also suggest ways to deal with weeds and pests.
GardenTags – available on iOS and Android
7. Plantifier
Unlike Flower Checker, Plantifier uses the masses rather than the experts to help with plant recognition. All you have to do is upload a photo of the unknown plant, and other users on the app can help you work it out. The app can also assist with caring for your garden, while tracking the growth of your flowers and plants.
Plantifier – available on iOS and Android
