The vegetable garden planner that knows your frost dates
VegLog tells you what to sow, when to plant out and what's ready to pick, all timed to your own town. Draw your beds to scale, plan the whole year, and keep a record of every harvest.
Free for your first growing space. For iPhone and iPad.
114 crops
Vegetables, herbs, fruit and flowers, and you can add your own
Your frost dates
Worked out for your town from recent Apple Weather data
No account
No sign-up and no ads. Syncs through your own iCloud
Metric or imperial
Metres or feet, kilos or pounds, in English, German, French or Spanish
Your week in the garden
Open it and know what to do this week
Today brings together this week's sowings, jobs and crops that are ready to pick. It reads your local forecast too, so it will tell you to fleece tender crops before a frosty night, water early on a hot day, or leave the can alone when rain is on the way.
- A round-up of the week ahead every Saturday morning
- A frost alert the evening before a frost (Pro)
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with this week's jobs
Plan your beds
Draw every bed to scale, then fill it
Raised beds, borders, allotment plots, greenhouses, polytunnels and pots, in any shape you like. Lay crops out in squares, blocks or rows and VegLog works out the spacing and how many plants fit.
Slide through the months to see what's in the bed on any day, and what could go in when a crop comes out.
Advice as you plan
A second pair of eyes on every bed
As you place crops, VegLog points out good and bad neighbours, crops going back where their family grew last year, tender plants going out before the last frost, and spacing that's too tight.
Short of ideas? Start from a template such as a salad bed or the three sisters, or let VegLog suggest a plan for the crops you want.
Sow at the right time
Sowing dates for your garden, not the whole country
A seed packet gives one date for everywhere from Cornwall to Caithness. VegLog works out your average last and first frost from the last few years of weather in your town, then sets every crop's sowing, planting and harvest window around them.
- Sow now: everything you can sow this month, at a glance
- Crop plans with succession sowings and reminders (Pro)
Try it here
See how frost dates move a sowing calendar
This is the tomato chart from the app. Switch to your own frost dates and watch the windows shift. A garden with a late May frost has a very different spring from one on the south coast.
Browse all 114 cropsTomato
Solanum lycopersicum
Last frost around 20 April, first frost around 31 October.
- Sow indoors
- late February to late March
- Plant out
- early May to early June
- Harvest
- mid-July to late October
And the rest
Everything else you'd want in a garden app
A record of every season
Log plantings, harvests by weight, notes and photos, then look back through your year month by month.
Harvest totals
See what each crop and each bed gave you, so you know what earned its space. (Pro)
A crop library you can change
114 crops with depth, spacing, hardiness and neighbours. Edit any of them or add your own.
Siri and widgets
Ask Siri what's due in the garden or log a harvest by voice. Tick off jobs from the Home Screen.
iPhone and iPad
Plan on the big screen at the kitchen table, then take your phone to the plot. iCloud keeps them in step.
Private by design
No account, no ads, and VegLog never asks for your location. You just choose your town.
Free and Pro
Free to start. Pro when your garden grows.
VegLog
Free
- One growing space
- Unlimited plantings, harvests, notes and to-dos
- Sowing chart for every crop, set to your frost dates
- Today, forecast advice and widgets
VegLog Pro
Subscription or lifetime
- As many beds, greenhouses and pots as you like
- The sowing calendar for the whole year
- Crop plans with succession sowings and reminders
- Frost alerts the evening before
- Harvest totals by crop and by bed
Upgrade inside the app. Prices are shown in your local currency on the App Store.
Growing guides
Straight answers to growing questions
A fall vegetable garden starts in July, not September
Fall crops are planted in mid to late summer, counted back from your first fall frost. In zone 6, with a first frost around mid-October, sow carrots, beets, kale, collards and broccoli in July, turnips and bok choy in August, and spinach, radishes and arugula into September. Plant garlic in October.
A short row of carrots every three weeks, from March to July
Sow carrots straight into the ground from late March to late July. Sow a short row every three weeks or so for a steady supply, with early varieties in spring and maincrops from May. Carrots don't like being transplanted, so sow them where they'll grow.
Basil hates the cold, so give it warmth, sun and regular pinching
Sow basil indoors from about 6 weeks before your last frost, and plant it out or sow it outside from 2 weeks after the last frost, once nights are warm. Pinch out the tips to keep it bushy, pick regularly, and remove flowers. Plants crop until just before the first autumn frost.
Crop rotation for beginners, with a four-bed plan you can reuse
Crop rotation means growing each family of vegetables in a different bed every year, so soil pests and diseases that build up under one family don't get a chance to settle. The usual plan uses four groups: potatoes and tomatoes, legumes, brassicas, and roots with onions.
The last frost in the UK, and why it decides your sowing dates
In lowland England and Wales the average last frost falls around mid to late April. It comes earlier near the south and west coasts and in big cities, and later in northern England, Scotland, on high ground and in frost pockets, where May frosts are common. An average date is a midpoint, not a promise.
March in zone 7: peas in the ground, tomatoes under lights
March in zone 7 is the main month for cool-season crops: sow peas, spinach, lettuce, radishes and carrots outside, and plant onion sets, potatoes, cabbage, broccoli and strawberries. Indoors, start tomatoes early in the month and squash, cucumbers and sweet corn late in it.
Questions
Things people ask before they download
Anything else? Email hello@veglog.app and you'll get a reply from the person who makes VegLog.
Is VegLog free?
Yes, for one growing space, with unlimited plantings, harvests, notes and to-dos. VegLog Pro adds as many beds, greenhouses and pots as you like, the sowing calendar for the whole year, crop plans with reminders, frost alerts and harvest totals. Pro is a subscription or a one-off lifetime purchase.
Does it work outside the UK?
Yes. Every sowing date is worked out from your own frost dates, so the same crop library works anywhere with a frosty winter, in either hemisphere. VegLog uses metric or imperial measurements and is available in English, German, French and Spanish.
Does VegLog need my location?
No. You choose your town and VegLog works out its frost dates from the last few years of Apple Weather data. You can also type in your own dates.
Do I need to create an account?
No. There's no account and no ads. Your garden is stored on your device and syncs between your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud account.
Which crops does it know about?
114 vegetables, herbs, fruit and flowers, each with sowing depth, spacing, hardiness, good and bad neighbours and a growing tip. You can change any of them to suit your garden, or add your own.
What do I need to run it?
An iPhone or iPad. VegLog is made for Apple devices only, with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets and Siri support.
Plan your garden in an evening
Draw your beds, pick your crops and VegLog sets the dates. Free for your first growing space.