SOW - A Planting Companion

Alabama Cooperative Extension System

About this app

The “SOW – A Planting Companion” app is designed to tell you the optimum time to plant crops in your home garden. Choose your location and start planting. Tap the photo of a crop to see more information:

• Estimated days to harvest
• Estimated yield per plant
• Spacing between plants
• Planting depth below ground level
• Suggested varieties
• Special notes as needed

The Alabama Cooperative Extension System, University of Kentucky, and North Carolina A&T State University Extension have partnered to provide crop and planting information for growing zones 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, and 9a. If you would like to see your state/zone in this app, contact Alabama Extension at [e-mail].

Ratings and reviews

Difficult to navigate. Can only add 1 garden. Will not allow me to add another because I can't enter a date. Would be a great app if it worked.

After entering your AL County, this app presents you with a "𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗜 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗧 (NOW)" screen with pictures that link to very simplistic growing info on various crops. It does not provide any concrete start and end dates for planting. It does not address when indoor seed starting would need to occur AT ALL. It does not let you look one or two or six months ahead to actually PLAN. It is a completely "Spur Of The Moment" guide to planting.

Very basic information. The only thing this app does is give you a list of what you can plant and when. Everything else is outdated with broken links.

What's new

This is a major app update. This new installation will overwrite garden data from the previous version of the app. To retain your current planted garden data, we recommend making notes of current crop names and planting dates and manually reentering the data after the update is installed.

This update includes planting data from the University of Kentucky, the ability to create multiple gardens, and a journal function to keep track of previously harvested crops, to name a few.