Know what to sow this week, for your own postcode.
A free garden planner for Australian backyards that plans your bed, times your sowing and tracks what you pick.
Welcome back. Your beds, your harvest log and what it all saved you are waiting in My Garden.
Open My GardenWhat to sow this week
PLAN→GROW→HARVEST→SHARE
Where are you up to?
No account, no card. Built and run in Queensland.
Fetching today’s supermarket prices…
New for 2027, in print
Garden Year 2027, the garden planner and diary for your zone
What to sow and pick each month where you live, a page for every crop and room to write down what really happened. There is an edition for each Australian climate zone. The Garden Year book is not a plan, it is a printed book for your zone. Every copy comes with 12 months of Starter free, no card needed, one claim per copy.
New to it, or years in, one app
Start wherever you actually are. Nothing here is locked behind knowing what you are doing.
Never grown anythingYou want to not kill it.
✓Build my first garden: a guided first bed, start to finish
✓Plant Now: type a postcode, get this week’s list
✓Garden planner app that counts the seedlings for you
✓1,659 guides and 34+ pests, for when it goes wrong
Been at it a whileYou want to know what it was worth.
✓Harvest log and ROI report: what your beds actually returned
✓Sow-again suggestions built from your own harvest data
✓Live pest pressure for your zone, fruit fly included
✓Grow Together: swap the glut with neighbours
Plan
Tell us your garden size. We set out the beds.
Pick a few veggies and we suggest the beds, keep good companions together and bad neighbours apart, and count the plants a bed really holds.
Your garden, drawn to scale
Pick up to four crops to plant this month.
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North is at the top. Beds run north to south so both sides get sun, and tall crops go on the south end so they do not shade the rest. In the planner app you draw your own beds, as many as you like.
Map your yard before you touch a spade
Show us the space. Walk the boundary. Take it outside. All three work without a desk.
Photograph your yardGet a plan back in about a minute.
✓Point your phone at the space, empty or overgrown
✓Get a staged garden plan built for your postcode
✓Free: 1 plan to try, once, no card needed
Walk your garden to map itBeds and plants where they actually are.
✓Walk the boundary with your phone, it draws the outline
✓Place beds and plants where they really sit, not a guess on a grid
✓Free: 1 garden mapped. Starter and Pro: 5 gardens mapped
Works offline in the fieldNo signal, no problem.
✓Install it on your phone like any app
✓Keep logging out the back paddock or down the shed, no bars needed
✓Free at every tier, always has been
Harvest · what it was worth
Grow it, or buy it. We do the maths.
Every bed is priced against today’s Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and IGA shelves, checked every day. Log what you actually pick and the harvest log tells you what the season returned.
179,072 supermarket price records so far, with 12 months of movement per crop.
Fetching today’s supermarket prices…
Written for your zone, not someone else’s spring
1,659 growing guides across 7 Australian climate zones. September in Brisbane is not September in Hobart. Pick yours.
Seven Australian climate zones, tropical to arid.
Not sure which one you are in? Type your postcode above and GardenBuddy.au works it out.
See what grows now in your own postcode
Real data, checked daily
GardenBuddy.au is built and run in Queensland by the GardenBuddy.au team, on Australian servers. Why we built it.
Free stays free
Free needs no card at all. If you want the full price history behind every crop, Starter is $29 a year.
Every paid plan starts with a 30 day free trial. Cancel any time. Compare plans in full.
Is GardenBuddy.au free to use?
Yes. The Free plan includes live prices, both weekly emails, a garden journal with 1 bed and 10 plants, and 1 saved plan. Free needs no credit card and has no trial countdown.
Where do the vegetable prices come from?
Prices are collected daily from Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and IGA. The system holds more than 179,000 price records and grows every day.
Does GardenBuddy.au work for my climate?
GardenBuddy.au covers 7 Australian climate zones, from tropical to arid. Enter your postcode and it looks up your zone and shows what to plant now.
What do the paid plans add?
Starter is $29 a year and adds preserving recipes, full 12 month price history, watchlist price alerts, the weekly Advisor note, a journal with unlimited beds and unlimited plants, and 20 saved plans. Pro is $59 a year and adds pest pressure for your postcode, weather pest alerts, an Advisor note every morning and the most photo checks. Every plan includes photo pest checks, Pro just gets more of them. Every paid plan starts with a 30 day free trial. Cancel any time.
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Pick up where you left off
Your zone, your beds, and what they are worth. Upgrade later only if you want to.
Your beds, your harvest log and what it saved you, all in one place.
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Every Sunday: the biggest supermarket veg price moves across Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and IGA, and what's worth growing instead of buying. Free, one email a week.