See it working, our demo garden
This is a real Garden Buddy AU account, set up with three beds and eight plants, the same way I’d log my own. I reckon the best way of showing you what you get as a paid member is to just let you walk around inside one.
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 my demo account instead of yours.
Demo Garden
Welcome, gardenbuddy-demo!
My Garden Log
My Garden Log
My Plants
Broad beans (Aquadulce)
Bok choy (Shanghai)
Snow peas (Oregon sugar pod)
Coriander (Slow bolt)
Kale (Tuscan Black)
Broccoli (Calabrese)
Silverbeet (Fordhook Giant)
Spring onions (Welsh)
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 of my 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 in my view is somewhat of 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 mine, your plant list drives the tasks panel. A few things I’d point 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 I see for Dayboro 4521 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.