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For every kind of garden

Plan the season. Know what grows where.

Desert Stems keeps garden work, crop records, seasonal plans, and exact planting spaces together in one shared notebook. See what needs doing and where every crop belongs.

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Flowers, herbs, vegetables, fruit, or any mix of them. A new notebook starts empty, and stays private to you.

The connected notebook

One garden, connected from plan to planting.

Dated work, editable records, a seasonal plan, and measured spaces stay linked from the first decision to the work in the garden.

  • Today

    See the work by date

    The next work across every bed and planter, in date order, with the details needed to get started.

  • Crops and spaces

    Keep every bed and planter editable

    Raised beds, in-ground beds, and movable planters, with the crops and varieties in each. Update a planting the moment it changes.

  • Season

    Tie the plan to real places

    Connect the season ahead to exact locations, so each planting decision lands where it belongs.

  • Map

    Read spacing, sun, and access

    Understand spacing, height, sun, support, and access, so you know what shades what and where there is room to move.

Seed to bloom

How a season goes in the notebook.

Four steps, in the order a garden actually happens. Each one feeds the next, so nothing has to be entered twice.

  1. 01

    Start with the ground you actually have

    Set your grow zone and last frost date, then record the spaces that exist: raised beds, in-ground beds, borders, and planters you can move, measured the way you measured them.

  2. 02

    Choose what grows

    Pull plants from a shared catalog of 1,000+ entries, or write your own crops and varieties. Check them against the seed packets already in the tin before you order more.

  3. 03

    Give every planting a real place

    Put each crop somewhere specific and read the plan back: spacing, mature height, sun, support, and the paths you need to keep clear. You see what shades what before you dig.

  4. 04

    Tend it, and keep the year

    Work arrives by date. Mark it done, log an observation or a harvest, add a photo, and the season writes itself into a history you can read next spring.

What is included

Every view in the notebook.

Nothing here is an upsell or a separate app. Create an account and all of it is already there, waiting for your first bed.

  • TodayThe next work across the whole garden, in date order, ready to mark done.
  • SeasonA plan for the season ahead, tied to the places the plantings will go.
  • MapA scaled plan you can read for spacing, height, sun, support, and access.
  • SpacesBeds, borders, and movable planters, measured and edited as they change.
  • CropsEvery crop and variety you grow, with the details that decide the work.
  • JournalObservations, harvests, planting events, and photos in one whole-garden history.
  • SeedsPacket-level inventory: source, age, storage, rough counts, and germination notes.
  • PropagationSeed-starting, cuttings, and divisions followed from sowing through potting up.
  • Catalog1,000+ reference plants with sourced care notes, shared by every garden.
  • GardensKeep more than one notebook, and share a garden with the people who tend it.
  • Grow zoneYour hardiness zone and last frost date, driving the dates every view shows.

The shared catalog

Plant sheets that are already filled in.

1,000+ plants come with the app: flowers, herbs, vegetables, fruit, berries, natives, grasses, vines, shrubs, trees, and houseplants. Add one to a bed and it brings its own spacing, sun, water, hardiness range, sowing method, bloom time, care notes, and sourced references with it.

Growing something the catalog has never heard of? Write your own crop and variety; the rest of the notebook treats it exactly the same.

The small things

Built to be used in the garden, not about it.

  • Made for a phone, outdoors

    Touch targets sized for gloves and glare, so recording a harvest where you are standing is not a chore you save for later.

  • Shared with the people who tend it

    Invite someone by email and you both work in the same notebook. Keep separate notebooks for separate gardens.

  • Yours, and quiet about it

    A private notebook, not a feed. Your garden stays yours unless you deliberately share a plant photo to the catalog, and nothing nags you about a day you skipped.

See what the garden needs next.

Create an account to record your spaces, plan the season, and keep the year in one notebook.

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