The whole toolbox · most of it free
Everything here exists to get food out of your garden and onto your plate.
Live prices for 93 vegetables so you know what is worth growing, 1,918 zone guides so you know how, a Plant Now tool for your postcode, a pest database for when things go sideways, and a bed planner to lay it all out. This page lists the lot, and what each one costs. Spoiler: most of it costs nothing.
The free features work without even an account. No signup, no card.
Free, no login needed
These features work without an account. No signup, no card.
Live Vegetable Prices
Updated daily from Woolworths, Coles, Aldi, and IGA. See the cheapest store for 93 vegetables, plus the 12-month low and high. A free account adds the 3-month trend chart; Starter unlocks the full 12-month history.
1,918 Growing Guides
Complete planting calendars for 156+ crops across all 7 Australian climate zones. Subtropical, Tropical, Warm & Cool Temperate, Mediterranean, Arid, and Cold Highland.
Plant Now Tool
Enter your postcode once. Get zone-specific recommendations for what to plant this month, with varieties suited to your climate and frost dates.
Australian Pest Database
34+ Australian garden pests with identification, treatment options (chemical and organic), prevention tips, and seasonal pressure calendars for your zone.
Two Free Weekly Emails
The Gardener Weekly Digest every Sunday (what to plant, harvest and watch in your zone) and the Weekly Price Alert every Monday with the biggest price movers. Both free with an account.
Sign up to opt in (free).
Per-Veggie Detail Pages
Every crop gets its own page in your zone: when to plant it, varieties that suit the climate, the challenges to expect, how to harvest it, and the pests that go after it.
Visual Bed Planner
Draw garden beds on a grid, drag crops onto them, and the planner works out how many plants fit and what the harvest is worth at today’s prices. The demo is open to everyone, drag beds and crops around all you like. Starter unlocks saving your own plans.
New to it? Read the garden planner app guide: how the grid, the plant counts and saving work.
The free account: free forever (no credit card)
A free account adds the 3-month price trend chart on every veggie, the Gardener Weekly Digest and the Weekly Price Alert, and a garden journal with 1 bed and 10 plants, plus the bed planner with 1 saved plan. The Gardener Weekly Digest arrives on Sunday. The Weekly Price Alert arrives on Monday. On Starter the journal holds unlimited beds and unlimited plants, with 20 saved plans. Create a free account →
Paid plans
Everything above, plus personal features for tracking your garden and learning what actually works in your climate.
Free
$0 forever
Free needs no credit card and has no trial countdown.
All the general knowledge, no card needed.
- Growing guides for every vegetable
- Plant Now for your climate zone
- Australian pest library
- Live supermarket prices
- 3 month price trend per vegetable
- Past months of the Farmers Almanac
Starter
$29 per year
Your own garden, tracked and timed, with the price history behind it.
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Full preserving recipes, tested, plus community recipes
- Soil salt tolerance for each crop
- GardenBuddy.au Advisor note, written for your garden: Weekly
- Garden beds in your journal: Unlimited
- Plants tracked in your journal: Unlimited
- Your garden records: Unlimited
Pro
$59 per year
For a garden big enough to feed the household.
- Everything in Starter, plus:
- GardenBuddy.au Advisor note, written for your garden: Every morning
- GardenBuddy.au Check photo diagnosis: 20 photo checks each month
- Harvest and care log CSV export
- AI starter plan for a new space: 5 plans each month
- Bed photo analysis: 10 bed analyses each month
- Live pest pressure for your postcode
Every paid plan starts with a 30 day free trial. Cancel any time.
Nothing is charged during the trial. The first payment is taken on day 31, at the price shown for the plan you picked. Cancel any time from your account page, in two clicks. Your garden history stays in your account. Prices are in Australian dollars. We do not refund unused time or change of mind.
Compare every plan side by side, including the Garden Year book.
AI help, when you want a second opinion
Four AI tools. A free account gets one go at photo pest ID, the plant identifier and a photo to garden plan, so you can see what they do. The paid plans carry the monthly allowances. Each tool answers one specific question rather than trying to run the garden for you.
GardenBuddy.au Check, photo pest ID
Photograph a chewed leaf or a bug you don’t recognise and get an identification with a treatment suggestion, instead of scrolling the pest library guessing. Starter gets 5 photo checks each month, Pro gets 20 photo checks each month.
Photo to garden plan
Photograph a bare patch, a backyard corner or a raised bed and get a starter planting plan back, matched to your zone and the space in the photo. Starter gets 2 plans each month, Pro gets 5 plans each month.
Bed layout analysis
Pro only, 10 bed analyses each month. Photograph an existing bed and get feedback on spacing, companion planting and what to add next, based on what the AI can see in the frame.
Plant identifier
Not sure what’s growing in the corner of the yard, or what came up in a seedling tray? Photograph it and get an identification, then drop it on your garden map. Starter and Pro both get 20 plant IDs each month.
Common questions
Ready to grow better?
Start free today. No credit card, no setup needed. Check prices, read your zone guide, and get planting recommendations in seconds.
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