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Your email, a password and your postcode.
What Free gives you
- Live veggie prices from Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and IGA
- Plant Now planting windows set for your climate zone
- 1,659 growing guides and the pest library
- Garden journal for 1 bed and 10 plants, plus 1 saved bed plan
- The to scale bed planner app
- Gardener Weekly Digest and Weekly Price Alert emails
What the paid plans add
Starter adds the money tools: price drop alerts for the crops you grow, your own watchlist, the full 12 month price history and a weekly advisor note written for your garden. Pro adds live pest pressure for your postcode, a morning advisor note and more photo checks each month. Start free today and upgrade any time from your dashboard.
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The Garden Year book is not a plan, it is a printed book for your zone. Every copy comes with 12 months of Starter free, no card needed, one claim per copy. See the book or claim your year.
Compare every feature
| What you get | Free $0no card needed | Starter $29per year, or $3.99 per month | Pro $59per year, or $7.99 per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free for everyone | |||
| Growing guides for every vegetableHow to grow it, when to sow it and what goes next to it, for every crop we track. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Plant Now for your climate zoneWhat is worth putting in the ground this month where you live. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Australian pest libraryIdentify the thing eating your crop and read what actually works on it. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live supermarket pricesWhat Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and IGA charge today for the veg you could be growing. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3 month price trend per vegetableSee whether a crop is on the way up before you decide what to plant. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Past months of the Farmers AlmanacEvery month we have already published, for your zone, free to read. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| This month of the Farmers AlmanacThe current month for your zone, free to read. Future months stay with paid plans. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Moon and biodynamic calendarSowing and harvest days by the moon, if that is how you garden. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Join a Grow Together groupSwap seed and surplus with gardeners near you when someone invites you in. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Storage, preserving and seed saving guidesHow to keep what you grow: storing, preserving and saving seed for next season. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Works offline in the fieldInstall it on your phone and keep using it with no signal, out the back paddock or down the shed. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gardener Weekly Digest email (Sunday)One email on Sunday with what is worth planting in the week ahead. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Weekly Price Alert email (Monday)One email on Monday with the biggest supermarket movers. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your own garden | |||
| Full preserving recipes, tested, plus community recipesFull tested recipes for every way to keep what you grow, from the canner to the freezer: ingredients, steps and process times, with pressure canning worked out for your altitude. Community recipes our team has checked open in full too. | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GardenBuddy.au Advisor note, written for your gardenKnow when to water, net or pick: a note about your beds, your crops and this week's weather, not a generic tip. | ✗ | Weekly | Every morning |
| Garden beds in your journalEvery bed you keep, with what is in it right now. | 1 bed | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Plants tracked in your journalEvery plant from seed to harvest, with the dates that actually happened. | 10 plants | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Your garden recordsWrite down moisture, pH, rain, feeds, pests, compost and more, against your own beds and plants, with a plain verdict on each reading. | 20 records each month | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Record history and trendsEvery reading you ever took, not just the latest, so this season can be checked against last. | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full 12 month price historyA whole year of prices per vegetable, so you can see the real seasonal swing. | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Price alerts for the crops you growWe watch your crops and tell you when their shop price moves. | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pick your crops watchlistChoose the crops you care about and everything else gets out of the way. | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GardenBuddy.au Check photo diagnosisPhotograph a sick plant and get a diagnosis with a treatment you can buy locally. | 1 photo check to try, once | 5 photo checks each month | 20 photo checks each month |
| Plant identifier on your garden mapPhotograph a plant you are putting on the map and we name it for you. | 1 plant ID to try, once | 20 plant IDs each month | 20 plant IDs each month |
| Next months of the Farmers AlmanacRead the months ahead for your zone, so you can plan the next sowing before it arrives. | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Start your own Grow Together groupSet up a group for your street or club and invite people in. They join free. | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Harvest value reportSee what your garden grew you: your harvest valued against today's shop prices. | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Garden Year month viewYour month at a glance: rain, warmth, what you sowed and picked, and what to plant now. | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Garden photo albumEvery photo of your garden in one place, by month, with the date and a short note. Pro keeps four times the room. | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Garden Year crops and My recordEvery crop you grew on one card, each planting from sowing to the last pick, year after year. | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Harvest and care log CSV exportYour whole growing record as a spreadsheet, yours to keep. | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Saved bed plans, drawn to scaleLay a bed out on screen before you dig it, and keep the layout. | 1 saved plan | 20 saved plans | 20 saved plans |
| AI starter plan for a new spacePhotograph your yard and get a staged garden plan for your postcode in about a minute. | 1 plan to try, once | 2 plans each month | 5 plans each month |
| Walk your garden to map itWalk the boundary with your phone and place beds and plants where they actually are. | 1 garden mapped | 5 gardens mapped | 5 gardens mapped |
| Bed photo analysisPhotograph a bed and get a read on its layout, spacing and what to fix. | ✗ | ✗ | 10 bed analyses each month |
| Live pest pressure for your postcodeWhat is active near you right now, including Queensland fruit fly. | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Weather triggered pest alerts for your cropsCatch pests before they spread: a warning when the weather turns into the conditions your pests wait for. | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Sow again suggestions from your harvest logNever miss a sowing window: worked out from what you actually harvested, so the next sowing lands in a gap. | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Group season planning, crop claims and wishlistAgree who grows what this season so the group does not end up with twelve zucchini patches. | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Monthly Vegetable Price Report emailThe month in one email: what moved, what to grow next. | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Priority email supportYour question goes to the front of the queue. | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |