Gardenize: Garden & Plant care

Gardenize is the best app for me, to organize and record the progress of my garden throughout the season. In addition, it's a great app to track what you have planted, and where in your garden it is I've tried and used many other gardening apps, and have found Gardenize the most beneficial due to its unique features, intuitive design, ability to use with your computer and your smart device, ability to customize to the methods I use to garden, and it's great to support, all which I'll discuss below. The main reason I like it is because of its versatility and potential. It's very versatile because you can define your areas (I have raised beds I dedicate to square foot gardening), define your plants, (any plants including vegetables, herbs, annual and perennial flowers, trees, shrubs, etc.), and then create your own events (can be logs, journal entries, photos, reminders, etc.). The real power is that you can then associate any of these three aspects with the other ones. You can associate different plants with different areas, different events with different plants or to different areas, etc. Then, when you observe a specific plant, you can see the areas and events for that plant, or when you view a specific area, you can see the different plants and events for that area, and when you view a specific event, you can see the plants and areas associated with that event. You can also take photo's with your phone, or saved photos, and attach them to events, plants, and areas. For each plant, area, or event, there are defined fields which makes it nice to set the specific attributes of those entities. Plus, there's a generic 'Notes' field for all three entities that you can use to add more attributes if you need. This is very nice, since most other gardening apps give you only their own info, and procedure for planting, growing, etc., which may not work with the specific way you garden yourself. You also have the ability to use the application from your phone or computer. The interface is very user-friendly on both devices, and syncs very well between them. I've never lost data going from one device to another, and the data syncs quickly and right away when logging into the specific device. The development team has some future plans that are being implemented right now. I'm greatly looking forward to some of those, which will make the app even easier and more robust to use. All in all, this is the most versatile app that I've found for organizing and journaling your garden. [2021-5-26]: Just want to add a bit to my review, regarding customer support. I had a small issue with the app, and emailed support. Support responded within 24 hours, and resolved all issues quickly after a few correspondence emails. It's nice to see and know you will be able to receive support on your phone app if and when problems do arise. I don't quite understand the few negative reviews due to the problems that the users had with their paid accounts, since if they had contacted support as I did, I'm sure they would have gotten their issues resolved promptly as I did.

The app has nice features but the plant database is so limited, maybe because I'm in California? There is only one type of lavender and many of my plants are not in it. Is there a plan to expand the database?

It only has sweet peppers not the kinda peppers I am growing I thought this app would have all kinda of plants

The first plant from my garden that I tried to add was not in the database - physocarpus opulifolius. I tried typing Nine bark too with no results. So I uninstalled the app as I'm looking for a garden care app with a decent database for plant care tips and knowledge etc.