Calendar, tasks and weather advice

The Calendar view collects everything that has a date: the sowing, planting out, harvest and pruning dates of your plantings, and the tasks you add yourself.

Frost dates first

All dates in Greenplot are counted from two days: the last spring frost and the first autumn frost. Type them as month and day (for example 04-20), or press Look up for my place: Greenplot asks the frost dates tool for the nearest weather station with 1991–2020 statistics (Deutscher Wetterdienst in Germany, NOAA in the United States). Risk level chooses between cautious, typical and bold dates.

New plantings take their dates from these frost dates, and so does the plant library.

The month calendar

Each day shows up to three entries; the list below the calendar has all of them with their date range, kind, bed and minutes. The arrows move between months and Today jumps back.

Tick the box of an entry when it is done, or press Skip when you leave it out (for example watering after rain). Done entries are crossed out in the calendar.

Your own tasks

New task adds a task with a kind (sow, plant, water, feed, prune, harvest, weed, protect or other), a date, an optional bed and plant, and the minutes it usually takes. Tick Repeat for tasks such as watering every three days or feeding every two weeks until a given date.

The minutes of done tasks make a work log: Export → Send work time to Timeslice… hands it over as a table, so the hours spent in the garden end up next to your other time records.

Weather advice

Check the forecast reads the MET Norway forecast for the place of the garden and turns it into advice for the plants that are in the ground today:

• Frost risk when the night falls to 1 °C or lower while tender or half-hardy plants are out — cover them or bring pots in.
• Cold night at 4 °C or lower for tender plants such as tomatoes, beans and courgettes.
• Hot day at 30 °C or more — water early and shade seedlings.
• Skip watering on a day with 5 mm of rain or more and the day after; watering tasks on those days get a Rain: skip badge.

A table lists the litres each bed needs for the coming days and the best days to water, worked out from the forecast's evaporation and the water use of each plant.

Calendar file and printout

Export → Calendar (.ics) puts every date into a calendar file for your phone. Export → Garden plan and checklist (PDF) prints the plan, every bed and a month-by-month checklist with tick boxes.