Useful Gardening App for iPad

Keeping a garden in excellent shape can be hard work, especially when you don’t know the first thing about gardening itself. Gardening Toolkit HD is an app that can track what is in your garden and walk you through the steps of maintaining it.

First of all the app needs to know where you live so it can determine your hardiness zone. A hardiness zone is a geographically defined area in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing. The app provides a way of finding this information out. Once this data is entered, the app is ready to
offer advice on what can be done. This is achieved by telling the app what plants you have in your garden. The app contains a wealthy database of plants, each entry within the database contains images and details on when they should be sown. Once the app has an idea of what plants you have it can advise on the correct times for blooming or harvest. There are also generic monthly tips that advise on general tasks that need to be undertaken to keep your garden at its best.

Once your project is underway it’s possible to take photos of your progress so it can be added to the built-in journal. There is also a handy Reminders function and a To-do list to help keep your gardening work organised. If you have more than one garden then Gardening Toolkit also has you covered with the ability to create multiple garden pro les within the one app.

Gardening Toolkit also boasts a community where the users can share tips and ask one another questions. For beginners to gardening, or for those with limited time to peruse textbooks on the subject, Gardening Toolkit provides a useful way of getting to the required information fast and easily. The layout and presentationof the app is also well done, making this well worth a look for the budding gardener.

Gardening Toolkit HD
Get your green thumbs at the ready
Price: £2.49 / $4.49 Developer: Applied Objects Ltd
Rating ★★★★★

from: iPad 2 App Directory Volume 2 - Imagine Publishing Ltd