Plantings

A planting is a crop in a specific growing space. It links a variety (what you are growing) to an asset (where you are growing it), and tracks the crop through its lifecycle from seed to harvest.

The list

Planting cards show variety, status, and location; the sown date and harvest window live on the planting’s page and as optional table columns. A planting whose harvest window has opened gets a “Ready to pick” badge and a soft highlight, so what’s ready now stands out. The lifecycle has eight states: Planned, Sown, Transplanted, Active, Dormant, Harvested, Failed, and Removed.

Creating a planting

1. Go to Plantings in the sidebar.
2. Tap New planting.
3. Search for the variety by crop name — Evengrow has 445+ varieties with days-to-maturity data.
4. Select the asset it is growing in.
5. Set the quantity — how many you put in that bed or container (defaults to 1).
6. Set the planting date — when you sowed or transplanted.
7. Set the status to match where the crop is right now.
8. Save.

Splitting a batch across beds

When you plant the same crop in more than one place — say you start 6 marigolds and put 3 in one bed and 3 in another — turn on Split across beds on the New Planting form. The single location picker becomes a list of bed + quantity rows. Add a row per bed, set each quantity, and the form shows a running total. Saving creates one planting per bed, each with its own quantity, all sharing the variety, category, source, and date you picked. A planting always lives in exactly one bed, so a split batch is just several plantings created together in one step.

Status lifecycle

Plantings move through these statuses in order:

Tap Advance status on any planting’s detail page to move it forward. You can also jump directly to any status.

Harvest window

When a variety has days-to-maturity data and a planting date is set, Evengrow estimates the harvest window automatically. You will see this on the planting detail page and in the AI proposals when a crop is approaching or in the harvest window.

The planting list

The Plantings page shows all plantings for the current garden, with search, sortable columns, and a Filter & Sort button. It opens a drawer holding the sort order (sown date, harvest window, status) and the filters: Status (Planned, Active, Harvested, Failed), Location (any bed or container in this garden), and Sown date. Tick several values in a field to match any of them (OR); across fields they all apply (AND); and each value shows how many plantings it would match. Tap Show items to apply. Active filters also show as removable chips below the toolbar, so you can see what is filtered and drop one without reopening the drawer. Plantings opens showing everything by default. You can switch between a cards view and a table view; your choice sticks per page on this device, and a Roomy/Compact density toggle in the cards view controls how much each card shows. In the table view, a Columns button lets you choose which columns show and reorder them, also saved per page. The picker offers every field, grouped into four sections: Fields (the planting’s own data), Linked records (the variety and location it points to), From linked records (read-through details like the variety’s scientific name and days-to-harvest), and Computed (derived values like the days-to-harvest countdown). Double-click a cell to edit your own fields or re-point a linked record; the from-linked-records and computed columns are view-only (edit those on the linked record’s own page). Every list across the app uses this same grouped picker. From the global view, you can see plantings across all your gardens, filtered by garden or status.

Tap Edit at the top to change rows in place; it works in both views. In the table view the location, quantity, sow date, and status become editable cells while sorting and filters stay active; in the card view each card’s location, status, and sown date become inline fields. Each change saves on its own. Tap a planting to open its full detail page. From there, Edit planting opens a form to change its variety, location, quantity, category, source, and sow date in one save.

Tips

• Keep status up to date. The AI proposals use planting status as a key signal — a planting marked “Seeded” gets different suggestions than one marked “Producing.”
• Log a harvest observation when you pick. It builds your yield history and improves future suggestions.
• Use the variety search — varieties in the catalog carry growing data. If your variety is not found, you can still create the planting without one and fill in notes manually.