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Guides for every part of Heirloom, from your first seed to harvest.

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Set your location, add seeds and read your timeline in five minutes.
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Getting startedSet your location, add your seeds and read your planting timeline in five minutes.Reading the timelineWhat the bars, colors and frost lines on the timeline mean.Seed cards & adding seedsAdd, edit and delete seed packets, and use the Seed Cards view.ZIP code & growing zoneHow Heirloom finds your zone and frost dates, and how to change them.Custom frost datesSet your own last spring and first fall frost dates.Planting: indoors vs. direct sowingMark a crop planted and tell Heirloom how you started it.Notes & spacingKeep packet details: depth, spacing, days to emerge, supplier and notes.Planting journalLog sowings, transplants, problems and harvests, with photos and season comparisons.Reminders & frost alertsWhat's coming up in the garden, a morning email, and frost warnings for your ZIP.Overwintering cropsGarlic, shallots and winter onions go in the ground in fall, sleep under mulch all winter and are harvested the next summer.Succession plantingPlant a crop again (or follow it with a different one) every few weeks or right after harvest, all the way to frost.Bed plannerDraw plots to scale and see how many plants fit and how many seeds to sow.Seed librarySearch 250+ common crops and varieties to fill in a seed packet, and save your own varieties.Accounts & syncSign in to save your garden to the cloud and use it on any device.Print or save as PDFPrint your season plan or save it as a PDF.Plans & billingFree, Annual and Perennial: what each includes and how to manage billing.FAQQuick answers to common questions.