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Super Cool Apps To Get Your Gardening Game On

Lifestyle Jul 30, 2015

by Maresah Dharmoo

Technology meets gardening through the use of these convenient iOS and Android gardening apps that are sure to make every garden thrive.

iOS Apps

The Essential Garden Guide

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This app is tailored to beginners with information that focuses on everything users should know about gardening. Tips include how to prepare soil, water plants and other essential information. The app also contains continuously updated information about how to grow various types of fruits and vegetables. You can learn how to grow fresh ingredients for your next South Asian meal.

Foolproof Plants for Small Gardens

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This app is perfect for gardeners with limited gardening space, such as a patio area or a small backyard. It focuses on providing helpful tips on how to grow over 90 types of plants from various plant categories like trees or shrubs. The app also includes gardening tips for all kinds of climates to ensure every plant grows successfully.

Organic Gardening Planting Planner 2014

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Organic enthusiasts will love this app and all its organic gardening tips. This app allows users to come up with their own virtual garden, where they can view and decide what they want to grow. Then, it tells the user when it's the best time to plant and harvest every plant. Another fantastic feature is the app’s journal and to-do list options, for added organic gardening organization.

Perennial Match

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This app focuses on perennial gardens and also uses virtual technology to design a garden. The benefits of this technology are endless, but one of the main perks is the feature that allows users to decide what colours of flowers match best by viewing what they will look like in advance. Other features include seeing what different coloured plants will look like under different shades of sunlight or how the various heights of plants should be arranged to suit a user’s design preference. The app also offers tips about growing conditions and lets gardeners know which plants are poisonous, fragrant or animal resistant. And it caters to global users by ensuring that the names of plants in various geographic regions are available.

Android Apps

Gardening Tips

This app offers tips that are less commonly known. Whether the user is a beginner or an advanced gardener, this app has a tip for everyone. Helps with all sorts of gardens whether be they vegetable or floral. Tips on tools, nutrients even design ideas are offered up here!

G row Your Own Organic Herbs

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Looking to delve into the world of organics? No need to be freaked out. This app takes care of the worrying for you. Perfect for novices and a great reference too for the expereienced, this app is chock-block full of tips to get you the perfect organic garden.

G arden Plants Growing Guide

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This app helps you care for up to 75 of the most popular flowers, herbs, garden flowers and vegetables. With photographs it helps the beginner to be able to cross check with their own garden to make sure they are on the right track!

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Maresah Dharmoo

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Maresah (@sah_mare) our guest tech expert is a University of Toronto graduate with a double major in Political Science and English. She has an ever-present passion for journalism and she loves staying updated on all things tech. Maresah also loves karate, reading, running and sight-seeing. Check her...

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