GRDN: Garden & Plant Care

GRDN tells you what your garden needs today, and why. This is not a watering timer. GRDN reads the weather where you actually are, works out how much water your soil has lost since it last rained, and asks you to water only when the plants in that bed have genuinely run short — and how many gallons to give them. Rain due tomorrow means it waits, unless the soil is already close to empty. A greenhouse is not watered by the sky, so it does not wait. ONE JOB AT A TIME Today shows the day's work one job at a time: water the beans, pick the basil, pinch the suckers off the tomatoes. Check it off and the next one arrives. EVERY PLANT, WHERE IT ACTUALLY GROWS Set your garden up once — open ground, raised bed, pots, a self-watering planter, a cold frame, a greenhouse or a windowsill — and say which way it faces. A plant that lives somewhere else, like the pots of basil on the steps, can be set…