Plant NowiPhone app · Australia, UK & US

Stop guessing in the seed aisle.

Pick your city and Plant Now shows every vegetable worth planting this month, with how to sow it, when to harvest, what to grow beside it, and a tip from The Hungry Gardener.

Get it on the App Store 5.0 in Australia

How it works

Three taps to know what goes in the ground.

1
Pick your country
Australia, the UK or the US. Seasons flip, so this matters.
2
Pick your city
Each city is mapped to its climate, so Melbourne and Brisbane get different lists.
3
Plant what it says
Every vegetable for this month. Scroll ahead to plan the whole year.

A Hungry Gardener tip and companion plants for beetroot — Real tipsThe kind you'd get cornering him at a dinner party.

Plant Cards library showing artichoke, asparagus, basil and beans — Plant CardsEvery vegetable, any time of year.

Watch and Learn tab with YouTube and the Guide Book — Watch & LearnTutorials and the Veggie Patch School Guide Book.

★★★★★It's going to save me so many empty beds.Madamerogers, App Store

★★★★★Great for beginners. Better than using Google all the time.Daphne Booth, App Store

★★★★★Worth so much more than the few dollars it costs. Grazie!Domi R, App Store

The Veggie Patch School

A whole veggie course. Free.

No enrolment, no paywall

Every lesson lives on Instagram at @veggiepatchschool. Start with your space and your soil, work through compost, seeds and pests, and finish with a pantry full of preserves.

Follow along and save the posts. When you want the whole lot in one place, there's the Guide Book.

Follow @veggiepatchschool

This is what you can create

Watch this lesson on Instagram at @veggiepatchschool

The Guide Book

Everything I know, in one place.

The whole Veggie Patch School as an 80-odd page PDF you can keep on your phone or print for the shed. Soil, building your patch, seeds and cuttings, feeding, harvest, pests, and recipes for when it all comes good.

Buy the Guide Book A$12instant download

Also in the shop: Growing Food The Italian Way.

Who's The Hungry Gardener?

Fabian Capomolla. Author, TV gardener, and the bloke behind Little Veggie Patch Co. He's spent years helping hundreds of thousands of Australians grow their own food, mostly by making it less complicated than everyone else does.

Plant Now and the Veggie Patch School are that same advice, made cheap or free and put where you can reach it with dirt on your hands.

Plant Now privacy policy

Last updated 5 October 2026

Plant Now is made by Fabian Capomolla, trading as The Hungry Gardener.

What we collect

Nothing. Plant Now does not collect, store or share any personal information. There are no accounts, no tracking and no analytics in the app.

Your country and city

The country and city you choose are used only on your phone to show the right planting list. They are not sent to us or anyone else.

Links out of the app

The Watch & Learn tab links to YouTube and other websites. Those services have their own privacy policies, which apply once you leave the app.

Purchases

Plant Now is bought through Apple's App Store. Apple handles payment, and we never see your payment details.

Questions

Send a message to @veggiepatchschool on Instagram.