Plan a garden for the food you actually cook
Tell us your climate, pick the dishes you want to make, and we'll draw a planting calendar tuned to your frost dates and your garden — built to eat fresh all season, not to fill a pantry with jars.
Start with your climate, then describe your garden. Frost dates drive the whole calendar — pull them from your ZIP or set them yourself.
Your climate
Two ways to estimate your season — the standard long-term average, or a warmer-leaning recent read with a later first frost.
Zones come from phzmapi.org (PRISM Climate Group data, the USDA 2023 map). Frost dates are interpolated from your zone — estimates you can edit, not station readings. Northern Hemisphere; read the sky before setting tender plants out.
Your garden
Tap whatever you're hungry for. Mix as many as you like — the calendar, the layout, and the eat-fresh tips rebuild every time.
Every crop's life across twelve months: started under cover, growing in the garden, then the weeks you're actually picking and eating it.
Want this as a PDF you can print or carry to the garden center? It comes in three parts — a seed & start shopping list, a month-by-month growing plan, and the exact settings used to build it. Drop your email and I'll send it over.
Built from your current settings. Nothing to send yet? Set your climate and pick at least one adventure up top first. One email per address per day — if you tweak your plan, come back tomorrow for a fresh copy.
Your garden handles the fresh half; these are the shelf-stable staples that turn a harvest into dinner — grouped by the season you'll lean on them, and tuned to the adventures you picked.
Found a crop we forgot? Think the space math is witchcraft? Want something we haven't dreamed up yet? Out with it. No promises on timing — but good ideas have a way of sneaking in, and the great ones jump the line.
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A potager (po-ta-ZHAY) is a French kitchen garden. Not a garden with a kitchen attached — a garden grown specifically to feed the cooking. Every plant earns its place by ending up on the plate.
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Pick a cuisine you love. Paste in a recipe URL. Bring your own favourite fresh dishes. However you think about food, Potager turns it into a planting plan — and tells you exactly when to get going.
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We're not here to fill your basement with jars. We're here to give you steady tomatoes in August, good salad in May, and basil whenever you need it. That's it. That's the whole ambition.
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No generic planting charts. Your frost dates set the calendar — everything shifts to fit your season, your zone, your garden. Somebody in Vermont gets a different plan than somebody in Georgia. Good.
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You don't need to know what you're doing in the dirt. You just need to know what you like to eat. Tell us that, and we'll figure out the rest.
What went wrong? We'll look into it.