Tool · Food · L3–L4

Grow food on purpose.

A seed packet tells you one crop. This tells you the whole season — what to plant for your ground, when to start it, what goes next to what, and what to do every week until the pantry is full. No guesswork. No forty browser tabs.

✦ Saved in your browser, not on a server 51 crops — vegetables, herbs & perennials Companion-checked layouts

Step A

Your ground.

Everything downstream — sow dates, frost windows, fall successions — keys off two dates. Enter your ZIP for an estimate, then correct it if you know better. Local knowledge beats any table.

Locate

ZIP code

ZIP gives a regional estimate. Microclimates are real — a valley floor frosts later than the table says.

Confirm or correct

Hardiness zoneLast spring frostFirst fall frost

Step B

Your crops.

Fifty-one crops that earn their square footage — calorie engines, storage roots, greens, herbs, and a few perennials that pay for decades. Search or filter, then pick what your household will actually eat.

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Step C

Your season, on one page.

Hatched amber is indoor seed-starting. Solid green is sow or transplant outside. Amber is harvest. The vertical lines are your frost dates — the season lives between them.

Set your ground and pick crops above — the calendar builds itself.

✦ Your plan is saved in this browser — nothing leaves your device.

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