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Walk around inside a real garden.

This is a real GardenBuddy.au account, set up with three beds and eight plants, the same way you would log yours. What you’re looking at below is the actual My Garden dashboard, not a marketing mockup. Same layout, same controls, same data flow. The only difference is that it’s our demo account instead of yours.

Buddy the SproutSame dashboard you get as a member, just with my plants on it. Poke around first, sign up later.

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Demo Garden

Welcome, Jen!

Today's Garden Weather

Temperature: 19.2°C
Humidity: 93%
Rainfall today: 0 mm

Today’s Forecast

Garden Advice

No significant rain forecast for the next 3 days. Ensure adequate watering.
Spring is perfect for planting most vegetables, especially tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers.

Water Me!

Soil moisture is low. Most plants need watering today.

Plants to Water Today

  • 💧Kale
    Water needed: 1.2 L
    Location: Front raised bed
  • 💧Silverbeet
    Water needed: 1.5 L
    Location: Front raised bed
  • 💧Broad beans
    Water needed: 1.5 L
    Location: Back in-ground plot
  • 💧Spring Onion
    Water needed: 0.5 L
    Location: Herb pots
  • 💧Basil
    Water needed: 1 L
    Location: Raised bed 1
  • 💧Climbing beans
    Water needed: 1.8 L
    Location: Front raised bed
  • 💧Lettuce
    Water needed: 1.5 L
    Location: Front raised bed
  • 💧Capsicum
    Water needed: 2 L
    Location: Raised bed 1
  • 💧Cucumber
    Water needed: 2 L
    Location: Raised bed 1
  • 💧Sweet corn
    Water needed: 2 L
    Location: Back in-ground plot
  • 💧Zucchini
    Water needed: 2 L
    Location: Back in-ground plot
  • 💧Thyme
    Water needed: 0.6 L
    Location: Herb spiral
  • 💧Parsley
    Water needed: 1.2 L
    Location: Herb spiral
  • 💧Marigold
    Water needed: 1 L
    Location: Herb pots
Total water needed today: 19.8 L

3-Day Watering Forecast

  • 23/10/2026
    💧 Watering recommended
  • 24/10/2026
    💧 Watering recommended
  • 25/10/2026
    💧 Watering recommended

Pest Risk Alerts

Moderate pest risk today.

What to Plant Now

  • Abiu + Add to my garden
  • Acerola Too cold: Current temperature 19.2°C is below optimal range of 24-32°C
  • Achacha Too cold: Current temperature 19.2°C is below optimal range of 23-30°C
  • Adzuki Bean + Add to my garden
  • Amaranth Too cold: Current temperature 19.2°C is below optimal range of 20-35°C

Harvest Ready

  • 🥕 Spring Onion (Welsh) in Herb pots
  • 🥕 Silverbeet (Fordhook Giant) in Front raised bed
  • 🥕 Kale (Tuscan) in Front raised bed
  • 🥕 Broad beans (Coles Dwarf) in Back in-ground plot

Today’s Tasks

  • 23 Oct
  • 23 Oct
  • 20 Oct
  • 20 Oct
  • 20 Oct

My Garden Log

My Plants

Broad beans (Coles Dwarf)
Planted: 01/04/2026
Est. Harvest: 01/08/2026
Zone: Back in-ground plot
Ready to harvest!
Stage: Seedling
Notes: Aquadulce variety, kept 40 best beans from March 2025. Seed cost: $0.
Needs watering today! Mark as watered
Kale (Tuscan)
Planted: 05/03/2026
Est. Harvest: 05/05/2026
Zone: Front raised bed
Ready to harvest!
Stage: Harvest
Notes: Tuscan Black kale (Italian heirloom), 50 seeds, $3.90. Start in punnets, transplant at 4-leaf stage.
Needs watering today! Mark as watered
Silverbeet (Fordhook Giant)
Planted: 10/02/2026
Est. Harvest: 05/04/2026
Zone: Front raised bed
Ready to harvest!
Stage: Harvest
Notes: Fordhook Giant, 200 seeds, $3.20. Very reliable, cut-and-come-again for 12+ months.
Needs watering today! Mark as watered
Spring Onion (Welsh)
Planted: 01/02/2026
Est. Harvest: 01/04/2026
Zone: Herb pots
Ready to harvest!
Stage: Harvest
Notes: Welsh bunching, perennial, harvest outer leaves, regrows. $2.60 packet.
Needs watering today! Mark as watered
Marigold (French)
Zone: Herb pots
Ready to harvest!
Stage: Seedling
Needs watering today! Mark as watered
Parsley (Italian flat leaf)
Zone: Herb spiral
Ready to harvest!
Stage: Seedling
Needs watering today! Mark as watered
Thyme
Zone: Herb spiral
Ready to harvest!
Stage: Seedling
Needs watering today! Mark as watered
Zucchini (Blackjack)
Zone: Back in-ground plot
Ready to harvest!
Stage: Seedling
Needs watering today! Mark as watered
Sweet corn (Golden Bantam)
Zone: Back in-ground plot
Ready to harvest!
Stage: Seedling
Needs watering today! Mark as watered
Cucumber (Lebanese)
Zone: Raised bed 1
Ready to harvest!
Stage: Seedling
Needs watering today! Mark as watered
Capsicum (California Wonder)
Zone: Raised bed 1
Ready to harvest!
Stage: Seedling
Needs watering today! Mark as watered
Lettuce (Cos)
Zone: Front raised bed
Ready to harvest!
Stage: Seedling
Needs watering today! Mark as watered
Climbing beans (Purple King)
Zone: Front raised bed
Ready to harvest!
Stage: Seedling
Needs watering today! Mark as watered
Basil
Zone: Raised bed 1
Ready to harvest!
Stage: Seedling
Needs watering today! Mark as watered
Cherry tomato
Zone: Raised bed 1
Ready to harvest!
Stage: Seedling

Email Preferences

Email preferences are part of a member account. This demo shows the settings only.

  • Digest emails: off
  • Frequency: Weekly

What’s on the picture above

The demo account has three beds, the way most early members start out:

  • Front raised bed, 2.4 square metres, the small one you plant your quick wins in (coriander, Welsh onion).
  • Back in-ground plot, 6 square metres, where the longer staying crops go (broad beans, broccoli, kale, silverbeet).
  • Herb pots, 1.2 square metres of containers for the herbs that prefer a bit of drainage.

Eight plants are active right now, all logged with planting date and variety so the site can work out which growing stage each one sits in and what care tasks to surface this week. The harvests panel shows 12 entries so far, totalling around 4.3 kilos, which is a realistic early autumn run for a small subtropical garden.

What you’ll do differently with your own account

When you sign up, the same dashboard becomes yours. Your postcode sets the climate zone, your bed layout replaces ours, your plant list drives the tasks panel. A few things worth pointing out:

  • The ROI number is calculated from today’s supermarket prices, not a static estimate. Log a kilo of broccoli, the report compares it against what that kilo costs this week at Coles or Woolworths.
  • The weather and pest pressure panels are postcode aware. What you see for Brisbane 4000 is not what you’ll see for Adelaide 5000.
  • Every care log entry (watering, mulching, fertiliser, pest treatment) is a row you own. Export it to CSV whenever you want to have a look outside the site.

Nothing in the paid tier is locked behind a separate app or a complicated onboarding. It’s the same page, just with your plants on it.

Ready to start your own?

Same UI, same features, real plants, real numbers, your postcode. The Starter plan is $3.99 a month or $29 a year, cancel any time from your account page.

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