Plant Anywhere

[h1]Plan your real garden. Grow a virtual one.[/h1]

Plant Anywhere is a full-featured spatial garden planner fused with a pixel-art farming simulator. It is built for gardeners who want to plan what they grow, track what they plant, and have fun doing it.

Why a garden planner on Steam?

Because planning a garden should feel like playing a game. Most garden planners are spreadsheets with clip art. Plant Anywhere gives you a spatial canvas with pixel-art themes, a farming simulator with weather events and missions, 20 achievements, and the companion-planting data you actually need to grow food successfully.

The planner is the product. The simulator is the hook. Together they make gardening something you look forward to — even in February, when there's nothing to do but plan.

Two Modes. One Garden.

The Planner
Your real garden, digitized. Create beds and plots on a spatial grid. Place individual plants with canopy sizing and spacing rings. The planner lights up companion relationships between your beds, flags crop-rotation problems, and tells you exactly what to plant this week based on your local climate data.

The Simulator
A pixel-art farming sim with 122 event templates, visual crop growth, weather systems, and mission objectives. Five visual themes — including three pixel-art styles — make your garden look like a game. Earn achievements for planning, growing, and mastering your garden.

What you can do

Design beds on a grid canvas using Square Foot Gardening or free-form layouts. Place from a catalog of 120+ vegetables, herbs, and fruits with accurate spacing and canopy sizing. See companion and antagonist relationships light up as colored lines between plants and across beds.

Know when to plant with frost-date-aware calendars built on local climate data, now enriched with real-time soil-temperature gating. The "What to Plant Now" tool tells you exactly which crops to start today and over the next seven days.

Start seeds indoors with the Seed Starter Tray — a 24-slot nursery that tracks each seedling through 8 growth stages from sow to transplant, then links it to its destination plot.

Plan like a permaculturist with permaculture-guild suggestions that score companions and analyze plant roles, so your beds work together as a system.

Run the simulator to watch your garden grow through the seasons with pixel-art visuals, weather events, pest encounters, and mission objectives.

Track everything with a searchable garden journal, a watering audit with 30-day weather history and FAO-56 ET₀ math, fertilizer recommendations, and a compost tracker that balances your C:N ratio.

Diagnose problems with built-in plant identification and disease diagnosis from a photo.

Go further with sensors by linking an ESP32 for live soil-moisture, light, and temperature telemetry straight to your plots.

Share your garden with the community, export interactive HTML reports, and collaborate with other gardeners on shared plots.

Features

Spatial Garden Design

• Grid-based bed creation (Square Foot Gardening + free-form layouts)
  
• Free-form individual planting with canopy sizing and spacing rings
  
• Bed resizing with drag handles
  
• Indoor mode for houseplants and containers (32 houseplant profiles, pet-safe filter)
  
• Balcony mode with railing visuals and sky gradient
  
• Freehand Design / Sketch tool (7 materials + custom colors)
  
• Garden import from photo, CSV, Excel, or SVG

Planting Intelligence

• 120+ crop profiles with growing data
  
• Companion-planting relationships with visual highlights (cross-bed and within-bed)
  
• Permaculture-guild suggestions with companion scoring and role analysis
  
• Crop-rotation warnings based on plant families
  
• "What to Plant Now" calendar using local climate data and real-time soil temperature
  
• 12-month planting timeline with frost-date lines and a today marker
  
• Succession planting with a timeline scrubber for harvest-gap planning

Seed Starter Tray

• 24-slot nursery tray (3 shelves × 8 slots)
  
• 8-stage lifecycle tracking: sow, germinate, grow, harden, transplant
  
• Seedling identification
  
• Link seedlings to destination plots in your garden plan

Garden Care Tools

• Searchable journal with dated care logs (watering, fertilizing, observations)
  
• Watering guidance with 30-day weather history and FAO-56 ET₀ calculations
  
• Fertilizer recommendations per plot
  
• Compost tracker with active C:N ratio balancing
  
• Plant identification and disease diagnosis from a photo
  
• ESP32 sensor telemetry (soil moisture, light, temperature)

Farming Simulator

• 122 sim event templates with visual crop growth
  
• Weather events, pest encounters, and seasonal challenges
  
• Mission objectives to guide your growing season
  
• 5 visual themes (3 pixel-art + 2 illustrated)
  
• 20 Steam achievements spanning planning, growing, and mastery

Community and Sharing

• Community forum ("Ask the Community")
  
• Garden sharing with role-based collaborator management
  
• Social export to 7 platforms (Reddit, WhatsApp, WeChat, and more)
  
• Play Garden demo for sharing read-only showcases
  
• Interactive HTML garden export with activities, journal, and frost data

Customization & Access

• Custom plant profiles with photo upload
  
• 5 visual themes for your garden canvas
  
• Terminal-style onboarding (green-on-black, 6-step flow)
  
• Art gallery
  
• 120+ languages

Pricing

Plant Anywhere is free to start — design real garden beds, use companion planting, the planting calendar, the journal, indoor mode, the community, and the design tool at no cost. An optional one-time Pro unlock removes limits and turns on the premium tools (succession planting, the Seed Starter Tray, watering and fertilizer guidance, plant ID and disease diagnosis, sensor telemetry, and the compost tracker).

Desktop-first experience

Plant Anywhere on Steam runs as a native desktop application via Tauri 2.0 with full Steamworks integration. Steam overlay, achievements, cloud saves, and rich presence are fully supported. Your garden data syncs across devices through your account.