Getting started

Set your location, add your seeds and read your planting timeline in five minutes.

Take the tour A one-minute walk through Heirloom, right on the page. New accounts see it once after the first sign-in. You can run it again any time from the account menu.

Heirloom builds a planting calendar around your frost dates. Tell it where you garden and what you're growing, and it shows when to start seeds indoors, when to sow outside and when to expect a harvest.

1. Enter your ZIP code in the Location box and press GO!. Heirloom picks your USDA zone and average frost dates. More on ZIP & zone
2. Check your frost dates. The red and blue stickers show your last spring and first fall frost. Know better dates for your yard? Click them to set your own. Custom frost dates
3. Add your seed packets with + Add Seed Packet. Pick a plant, the variety and timing from the packet. Seed cards
4. Read the timeline. Each crop gets an indoor-start window and a direct-sow window. Reading the timeline
5. Mark things planted as you go, and Heirloom recalculates from the real date. Indoors vs. direct sowing
6. Sign in to save your garden to your account and use it on any device. Accounts & sync