DibbleKnow when to plant, wherever you garden.
Dibble reads the frost, heat, and rain where your garden is and builds a planting calendar for every crop: when to start seeds, sow, transplant, and harvest, with reminders at the right time.
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Everything you want in a garden planner
A calendar for your garden
Dated tasks for every crop, based on your local frost, heat, and rain.
Works in every climate
Where frost comes only some years, a safe date for tender plants. Where it never freezes, your cool or dry season.
Reminders on time
Start, transplant, and harvest nudges, scheduled on your device, plus one free frost warning a season, the evening before.
A real crop library
Dozens of vegetables, fruit, herbs, and flowers with how-to notes.
Ask Dibble
Quick answers to planting questions, in all eight app languages, worked out on your device.
Private by design
No account, no ads, no tracking. It syncs through your iCloud.
Widgets and Apple Watch
Mark tasks done from a Home Screen widget, glance at the Lock Screen, or check today on your wrist.
Set up in under a minute
Say where your garden is
Use your location, search for your town, or enter a postal code. Dibble reads the frost, heat, and rain there.
Pick what to grow
Choose your crops and Dibble dates every task.
Plant on time
Follow your calendar and get reminders all season.
Dated tasks, not vague advice
Every crop gets real start, sow, transplant, and harvest dates, worked out from the frost, heat, and rain where your garden is. Where frost comes only some years, Dibble says so and gives you a safe date for tender plants. Where it never freezes, it finds your cool or dry season instead.
When spring runs early, your calendar moves with it
A typical year is a thirty-year average, and no single season matches it. With Premium, Dibble watches your local forecast and this year's actual freezes, then shifts every date by up to two weeks when the season runs early or late. Tasks, reminders, and widgets all move together, and you can see the freeze date behind the shift.
Map every bed, square by square
Lay out raised beds and in-ground rows on a square-foot grid. Drag a crop into a square, and Dibble checks the neighbors and warns you when two crops do not get along.
Spot plant trouble before it spreads
Choose a photo of a struggling leaf and Dibble checks it right on your device, then walks you through the symptoms, organic treatment, and how to prevent it next time. A second tool answers the other half of the question, what is actually eating your leaves, from aphids and hornworms to squash bugs and Japanese beetles. Choose a photo and Dibble names the likely pest. Nothing is uploaded, and three identifications a season are free.
More for serious gardeners
Weather-adaptive calendar
When this year's last freeze lands early or late, Dibble shifts your whole calendar to match and shows you the freeze date it used.
Plant disease diagnosis
Photograph a struggling leaf and Dibble names the likely disease and suggests organic fixes, all on your device.
Pest identification
Find out what is eating your leaves. Photograph the culprit and Dibble names the pest, with organic treatment steps.
Plant identifier
Choose a photo of a plant and Dibble suggests what it is, right on your device. It knows the crops in Dibble's library best, and it is a best guess to check, not a sure answer.
Bed layout planner
Drag crops into a square-foot grid and map every bed. Dibble warns you when two crops that don't get along end up side by side.
Houseplant care
Keep your indoor plants thriving with a library of common houseplants and watering, feeding, and repotting reminders tuned to each one.
Multiple gardens
Track a front yard, a community plot, and a greenhouse at once.
Your garden, your plants, your pace
The zone calendars on this site use typical frost dates for each hardiness zone. The app goes a step further and plans from the frost, heat, and rain where your own garden is.
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All guidesHow to Start a Vegetable Garden: A Beginner's Guide
Everything a first-year gardener needs to go from bare soil to a first harvest, in plain steps.
USDA Hardiness Zones: How to Find Yours and Use It
Find your zone, understand what it means, and turn it into planting dates.
First and Last Frost Dates, Explained
The two dates that anchor your whole season, and how to use them.
Plant at the right time this season
Dibble builds your calendar in under a minute. Free to start, no account needed.
Dates on this site are estimates based on hardiness zones and typical frost dates; in the app they come from your garden's own climate. Your yard has its own microclimate, so use them as a starting point and adjust as you learn your space.