My varieties
Evengrow ships with a catalog of common varieties, but you grow your own set, and you probably name some of them your own way. The variety library is where your own varieties live. They sit alongside the built-in catalog, and they are yours: the same library is available in every garden on your account.
What the built-in catalog covers
The built-in catalog holds more than a thousand common varieties: vegetables, fruit, herbs, and flowers. It leans toward the named cultivars the major US seed companies actually sell, so a seed packet you bought is likely to match an entry already in the system, which means your planting picks up days to harvest, sow method, and a care profile automatically instead of starting blank. Each entry carries agronomic data, not a sales listing, and the catalog grows over time. If something you grow is not in it, import or add it and it becomes one of your own varieties.
Where your varieties come from
Two ways varieties get into your library:
- Import. When you import plantings or a variety list and a name is not already in the catalog, Evengrow adds it here as your own. This is why an import never loses a variety, even one the catalog has never heard of.
- By hand. On the My varieties page you can add a variety directly, with a name, scientific name, category, days to harvest, and notes.
What you can do here
The My varieties page lists the varieties you own as a sortable, searchable table (with a card view too). Search matches across the common name, the scientific name, and the category, and you can sort by name, category, or days to harvest. Tap a variety to open its detail page, which shows everything the catalog knows about it. From there, Edit opens a form where you can change every field: name, scientific name, category, subcategory, days to harvest, spacing, sun, frost tolerance, growth habit, sow method, USDA zone range, and notes; Save brings you back to where you started. You can also delete a variety from the list. Deleting a variety that a planting still points at does not delete the planting; the planting just loses the link.
Fill defaults by subcategory
Most of those growing fields are similar across a crop group, so you do not have to fill them in from scratch. Set the subcategory (for example Cucurbit, which covers cucumber, melon, and squash) and tap Fill defaults from
The column picker
The table has a full-field column picker, the same one the other lists use. It exposes every field a variety carries — scientific name, category, days to harvest, spacing, sun, frost tolerance, growth habit, zone range, sow method, and notes — and lets you show, hide, and reorder the columns to match what you care about. The variety name is pinned and always shown. Your choice is remembered per device (and synced across your devices). In the table view you can also edit cells inline, which saves as you go, when you have an Advanced plan; everyone else gets the same table to browse, read-only.
The built-in catalog is read-only. You cannot edit the shared catalog entries, only your own. When you import or add a name that exactly matches a catalog entry, Evengrow links to the catalog rather than making a duplicate.
Tiers
Bringing varieties in through import is free, so you never lose data getting started. Managing the library on this page (adding by hand, editing, and curating) is an Advanced feature.