These are the tools we have built. Each one answers a question that kept coming up across the crop and pest research: when to sow, how far apart, what is actually true, and how to rotate your beds.
The single most useful number for Scottish growing. Enter your region and get your local last spring frost and first autumn frost: every sowing date on this site flows from these two numbers.
A month-by-month view of what to sow, plant and harvest in Scotland. Built from real timing data, adjusted for Scottish regions.
See exactly how far apart your seeds and plants need to go. Spacing is a disease control as well as a yield decision: crowding invites botrytis, mildew and blight.
Every common gardening claim checked against the evidence. Companion planting, slug remedies, the lot: find out what holds up, what does not, and what the sources argue over.
A visual four-bed rotation planner. The simplest way to keep your soil healthy and break pest and disease cycles without a spreadsheet.