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Gardening: tracking what you planted and when it will come in

My Garden: care guides, help identifying a plant, a photo journal, and a simple reminder to check the soil.

Written by Brian Fluhr

To use My Garden, sign in first.

This page explains how it works. The tool itself is inside your SeniorThrive account.

If you garden, even a small patio garden, you already know that the planting is the easy part. Remembering what each plant needs is harder.

My Garden is a gentle place for that: care guides, help naming a plant, a photo journal, and a simple reminder to check the soil. Not a farm management system.

My Garden is part of Essential, and pauses on the Free plan.

Where to find it

Open Activities and tap My Garden.

What is on the page

  • One plant to start with. A single suggestion, if you would like somewhere to begin.

  • Plant Care Guides. Find plants by Time of Year, My Region, or What I Want, or search by name. The region view is a rough starting point, not your growing zone.

  • Identify a Plant. Take or choose a photo of a plant you do not know.

  • Garden Photo Journal. Snap photos of your garden to see how it grows over time.

  • A plant of the week, a weekly tip, and short gardening videos.

  • Container Gardening Tips, for pots, patios and windowsills.

Keeping your plants

When you find a plant you grow, or want to, save it to My Plants so it is easy to find again. From a saved plant you can tap Print Care Card for a paper copy of its care.

A reminder to check the soil

A saved plant can add a repeating reminder to your Google Calendar to check its soil: touch the top inch, and water only if it is dry. Tap Add to Google Calendar. Nothing is created until you press Save in Google Calendar, and you can stop the reminders any time by deleting the event there.

Sharing with the family

If someone in the family gardens too, a photo in Shared Photos is an easy way to show them how things are growing. A small, quiet way to stay in touch over a shared hobby.

The point is the tomato.

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