Garden Squared

Closest I have found to being able to visually plan a garden but lacking many features and conveniences. It would be nice if it: showed the number of plants per square foot when viewing the whole bed, it had more and better pictures to represent the plants in each square foot and showed them according to how many you put, better cultivation for plants for beginners.

It is a basic visual aid for a square foot garden. The only criticism I have is that the length of the bed should be unlimited sense the only real restriction on the dimension of the beds according to the SFG method is that it with is no greater than four feet wide. Mel does of course say that he doesn't recomend it be longer than fifteen feet. But he also says that if your landscape has a long walk way that bordering it with 3 foot wide beds is a great use of space.

I like it enough to keep and hope that author adds more plants .. onions, potatoes, etc. The ability to delete beds would help. Has spots with 4 and 16. Spots with 2 and 9 would be good. Other than that, it is great for those square foot gardeners.

Two drawbacks: Awful plant illustrations and limited configurations of plants per square that may not match how you plant -- beans are 8 -9 per square, not 4 like the picture. The plant info is limited and not really worth it. Combined with Gardroid Premium, I have a good record of my efforts. Now, if I could put the two together, with better graphics, I'd have a nearly perfect app. (There is a Sq. Ft. Garden app, but it only runs on the iPhone and Kindle.)

It could use a lot of features. I used Garden Tracker on my iPod touch and that's a lot closer to what I'd be looking for in this type of app. A few suggestions: A plant database. It should include fields for plant category (vegetable, flower, herb), planting requirements (time, distance, depth), harvesting requirements and results, sun, etc. Ability to add/edit/delete multiple plants at the same time, not just copy/paste one at a time. Very tiresome to add the same plant 8 times. I'm out of room...

I haven't used this app very long but so far seems to be very useful. Easy to use. Only thing I would change is to make it so you can transfer data from one section to the next. That would make it so you wouldn't have to type the same info over again with more than one of same plant.

This app served my purposes well enough. It is a little backwards in that each time I open it, I have to go in and make the labels visible. Worse than the limited user-friendliness, however, is that I have upgraded to a new phone and have discovered that the app saves no memory of my garden bed information from my previous phone. With 72 total square feet of garden space, I'm a little miffed about this and will now Seek a different app that allows data backup.

Has potential. Needs extended copy and paste (paste to multiple squares). Unable to access journal. An editable library of plants and short comments would help. Link to a calendar for plant and harvest planning.

I'm not sure what use it is to have a list of garden beds but not be able to view the whole layout of the garden. Not what I was looking for.

A little too basic. Needs more options for bed sizes, and need the ability to see what plants ate labeled as at the bed view screen, rather than just a vague picture of a whole bed of herbs..

This isn't a perfect app, but it serves it's purpose and I continue to use it.

Probably good for the small space gardener but didn't meet my needs for a larger square foot garden.

Good basic app for square foot gardening. Has the potential to be excellent with some updates. My wishlist: Add 2 and 9 dot options, add more colors for all the dots, the ability to mark something as a perennial, add a plant database or at least expand your plant category database. Give planting recommendations for the plants, add the ability to set timers or reminders.

It's a good idea but when I make a 4x8 bed I can only see 5 & 1/2 rows 7 & 8 are cut out completely. If this gets fixed I'll try using it more and rate again.

I love the visual planning.. Wish it would do larger gardens. My bed is 8×16. I had to make 4 different ones just for my one garden. Also more veggie pics would be nice.. With that said, It is free and I am happy with it.

If you could take a picture of your plant and ahad few more enhancements would be a great app. keep working on it.

This needs a few tweaks but overall does what it says. Needs so many more plant symbols. Also, if I select multiple plants per square foot, my garden should illustrate that. For example: if I select 4 kale for one square, that square should show 4 kale symbols. If these get fixed, I will rate higher.

Doesn't show enough plant options, no details on planting.

Very easy interface to do bed layout plan, but not enough different veggies - missing potato, onion, and many others. Quite a lot of spelling mistakes (beats, scrape wood,...). Would be nice if included incompatible planting warning.

My garden is 4x8 so it fits the largest option. This is my first year gardening and this gives me a super convienant place to keep all my plans and records. I love this app and it helps me feel like pro gardener.

Some folks miss the concept that sq ft gardens are designed to reach into the center from the side so that you do not walk on soil, thus 4 ft wide.

Love this but like more pics, bigger beds, and let me print it out! Thanks u!!

Thanks for the app. Only around 7 letters show in the white circles. Can't change layout. History of changes over year? Agree with the comments for improvement. Then it would be fantastic.

Does what I needed. Plant names and # don't show up on white background of plot circle. Droid X.

Please Updateto expand the beds, and add pictures please!

Not for row gardens: Great for square foot gardening!! You can add name of any plant, but would love more plant iconspics/plants per square guides

Great for square foot gardens. An update with 9 and 6 "spots" and longer lengths would be cool. I plant a bit Kore intensely than an app allow, yet, the main items I need to follow are there.

Tap my saved garden, tap the garden , it will bring up saved garden with the pictures you choose from app.

Not a bad idea, but this pretty primitive.