Five iOS apps for gardening and plant care - iphoneclub.nl

Sunday, September 8, 2013 (16:53) | Evi Maquoi

The holiday is over and that means that we are going to enjoy your garden or balcony. regularly during the last beautiful days of the year iCulture helps you on your way with handy apps to gardening. It does not matter whether you have a small balcony garden, a huge lawn with colossal flowers border or just want to join the trend of urban farming . Who wants to fully enjoy his plants, she must take care of on time and well. We serve up the most interesting garden apps for iPhone and iPad , so you know when to sow radishes should the beech hedge pruning or houseplants need repotting.

iCulture advises: My Garden

Looking for an orderly plant encyclopedia? My Garden is the ideal tool for anyone with green fingers. The app is an extension of MijnTuin.org, a community of about 30,000 registered users. Via Plants Overview Get a chronological overview of popular species: of hydrangeas and boxwood to butterfly bushes and spearmint. Each species is illustrated with one or multiple photos and also get an extensive amount of information, such as height growth, plant family and care requirements. Also useful is the Tasks tab. Here you can clearly see which period you should prune the plant when he will flourish and how to run the plants or cuttings. Who log in through the app MijnTuin.org will also have access to the forum and can keep a garden calendar. A clear app chock full of useful information
Download:. My Garden (free, universal, iOS 4.3 +)

Intratuin

Besides the most current prospectus of retail Intratuin and theme magazine offers you also get a lot of ideas and facts presented in this app. These tips are neatly divided into four categories: Outdoor, Indoor, Animals and Cooking. You’ll learn include how to fight, how to repot houseplants or how you can make. Their own outdoor kitchen weeds All tips are described step by step and show you the necessary material. With a tap, you can add the supplies to a shopping list. Another strong point of the app is the garden calendar. Here you can see a month what actions you should take in the garden. To keep the list tidy developers also chose here for varied categories. Intratuin is a beautiful and very informative app. The only drawback is that it is not optimized for the iPhone 5
Download:. Intratuin (free, iPhone, iOS 4.3 +)

Plantifier

Is that a daisy or aster? You can continue to doubt or just use the Plantifier app. Plantifier is part of the Belgian community MijnTuin.org and want to help you with identifying plants and flowers. After a short registration process, you just upload a picture from your camera roll or take a new photo and then upload the image. Users of MijnTuin.org (30,000 members!) Or Plantifier can easily give their verdict. We had a response within fifteen minutes. One drawback is that the app only a limited number of characters of the answer which sometimes shows a portion of the reaction remains invisible. Do you also have quite a few plants? You can of course also help other users to find the correct names
Download:. Plantifier (free, iPhone, iOS 4.3 +)

Dr. Pandas Vegetable

Want your son or daughter learn where the carrots, leeks and strawberries come from? Dr.. Pandas vegetable garden is a fun, interactive game that allows your toddler learn how to edit and maintain a vegetable garden. After he has bugs and weeds removed, you ukkepuk raking the ground then there stop. Virtual seeds Who then gives regular watering, can harvest a little later vegetables. There are about thirty different acts Dr. Pandas Vegetable and your son or daughter can twelve different vegetables planting and harvesting. A big advantage is that the game is completely text free so even the youngest immediately with Dr. Pandas Vegetable garden can work. Another plus is that the game is ad-free and does not offer in-app purchases. After this game will help you eyeball undoubtedly the real garden
Download:. Dr.. Pandas Vegetable (€ 2.69, universal, iOS 4.3 +)

Plant Brain

Those looking for a special iPad app as plant encyclopedia Plant Brain should definitely try. The brainchild of the Dutch garden designer Odette Block contains over 2,600 different plants and 7,000 photos. Plants look is very simple and can be done in different ways. You can simply enter the (Latin or English) name or plants search using filters. There are filters for plant, flower color, leaf type, zonbehoefte, flowering period, soil type and minimum and maximum height. Once you have a list of results, you can retrieve all properties of each plant species. Plant Brain is very detailed and user-friendly. Too bad that the app is not available in Dutch. Note, most features are totally free but for additional photos and creating lists have an in-app purchase of € 3.59 needed
Download:. Plant Brain (free, iPad, iOS 5.0 +)

Also nice:

• Garden Plot (free, iPhone, iOS 3.0 +) – Major sowing plans? This app lets you easily keep track of when what you have sown in a handy log. Or only in English!
• Gardening Toolkit (€ 1.79, iPhone, iOS 3.2 +) – General English tuinapp with giant plants database. For each plant you get to see if he can grow in your region. Other useful info such as water demand and sowing time are also shown.
• into gardens (free, iPad, iOS 5.0 +) – Insanely beautiful garden and very interactive magazine from the Kiosk. You can download two songs for free, then you pay € 4.49 per issue.

Opening image:. Moyan_Brenn_BE_BACK_IN_SEPTEMBER via Flickr CC