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CatchCropVeg garden planner for iPhone

Plan every square of the veg garden.

Every sowing, planting-out and harvest date, worked out from your own frost dates. Every bed in 30 cm squares that come free when a crop is out, so a quick one fits in before the next.

Two beds free, for as long as you like. Every bed, plot and pot: £2.99 a month or £19.99 a year.

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iPhone · iOS 26 or later

Frost dates

01

Start with two frost dates.

Tell CatchCrop when frosts usually stop in spring and start in autumn, or start from one of four reference climates. A garden in Cornwall and one in Aberdeenshire get different dates, as they should.

02

Every date follows from them.

Pick a crop and it shows when to sow, when it goes out and when to expect a harvest, with the sum behind each one.

CatchCrop's frost dates step: the first autumn frost on Thursday 5 November and the last spring frost on Wednesday 28 April 2027, with Southern England chosen from four nearby climates. When is the tomato sown? Sow indoors 17 March, plant out 12 May, expected harvest 21 July 2027: 42 days before the last frost, 14 days after it, and 70 days after planting out.

This week

One list of jobs for the whole garden.

Every planting’s dates become jobs: sow, plant out, harvest. Tick one off and it stays ticked, even if you change the planting later.

Turn reminders on and one arrives at 08:00 on the day. Leave them off and nothing ever buzzes.

Beds, plots and pots

01

Every bed is a grid of 30 cm squares.

A raised bed, an allotment strip and a patio pot are planned the same way. Drag across the squares a planting takes, and the bed says roughly how many plants fit.

02

Squares come free when a crop is out.

So radishes sown in March are out in April, before the tomatoes go into the same squares in May. That’s a catch crop.

Where does the radish go? The first eight squares of the Tomato bed chosen, about 128 plants; the squares the tomatoes and courgettes take later carry a corner in their colour, and the lettuce’s are taken. The Tomato bed, 4 by 8 squares: radish in squares 1 to 8 with the tomato marked to follow, lettuce, tomato and courgette, and the season line with the radish marked catch crop.

The garden in 3D

01

Watch the garden grow.

Every bed at its real size, planted with what’s in it on any day of the year, from bare soil in March to July’s full beds.

02

Follow the shade through a day.

Move the beds to where they stand and add the shed, the fence and the trees. Their shade moves across the beds as the sun goes round.

03

See the hours of sun on each bed.

Sun adds it up: the hours of direct sun on every bed, with the shade of everything around it.

And the rest

What else it does.

A journal for every bed.

Dated notes and up to eight photos an entry, taken there and then or picked from your library, kept with the bed they belong to.

Thirty-one crops.

Each with its own sowing window, spacing and time to harvest. Search by the name you’d use: courgette, broad beans, pumpkin.

Rotation, noticed.

Put brassicas, potatoes or tomatoes, onions, peas or beans, or carrots where their family grew in the last three years and CatchCrop tells you before you save.

No guessed watering reminders.

The crop library holds no watering data, so CatchCrop reminds you only of what it can work out: sowing, planting out and harvest.

Your garden, your iCloud.

No account and no server of ours. Your garden lives on your iPhone and syncs through your own private iCloud.

How it compares

Beside the other planners.

We set CatchCrop beside GrowIt, Veggie Garden Planner and Planter, the veg planners with the most ratings in our UK App Store searches on 15 October 2026.

See the comparison

  • A square used twice in a seasonCatchCrop frees a square once its crop is out, so a catch crop goes in first. We didn’t find that listed for the other three.
  • No account, and your own iCloudPlanter keeps signed-in gardens on its developer’s cloud. CatchCrop has no account and keeps your garden on your iPhone and in your own iCloud.
  • Where others do moreGrowIt and Planter run on Android too and list 80 or more plants. CatchCrop is for iPhone, with 31 vegetables.

What it costs

Two beds free. Every bed with CatchCrop Full.

Free

£0

For as long as you like. No trial to run out.

  • Two beds, plots or pots
  • Every date, job and reminder
  • The journal and the garden in 3D

CatchCrop Full

£2.99 a month

or £19.99 a year

  • Every bed, plot and pot you grow in
  • Renews until you cancel in your App Store settings
  • If it ends, every bed stays on screen and readable

Questions

What people ask first.

How does CatchCrop know when I should sow?

From your last spring frost and your first autumn frost. Each crop’s dates are so many days before or after them, so when your frost dates change, so do the dates for anything you plant next.

Will it work for an allotment?

Yes. An allotment plot is a grid of 30 cm squares like any bed, up to 7.2 m by 18 m. A big plot is easier to plan as a few named beds.

Can I grow something quick before the main crop?

Yes. A square is only taken while something is in the ground, so radishes or lettuce can go in ahead of the tomatoes or squash that follow in the same squares.

Do I need an account, or a signal?

Neither. There’s no sign-in, the crop library is in the app and every date is worked out on your iPhone, so it all works at the plot without a signal.

How much is CatchCrop?

Two beds are free for as long as you like. More than two needs CatchCrop Full, £2.99 a month or £19.99 a year. There’s no free trial: the two free beds are yours to try it with.

Does it work in the southern hemisphere?

Yes. No crop’s timing is stored as a month, so a season running from October to May works the same as one from April to November. Southern Australia is one of the four reference climates.

CatchCropOn the App Store

Plan the season, square by square.

Two beds free, for as long as you like. Every bed, plot and pot: £2.99 a month or £19.99 a year.

Download on the App Store