Gardener · by LilypadGardener · Your bed4×8 ft
LettucePeasTomatoes
- Sun
- About 6 hours
- Last frost
- About Apr 20, from your local guide
- Helpers
- Kids, on weekends
- Soil test
- Unknown
✓ Saved to your garden
1Mention it
Get your own gardener.
Mention Gardener in a chat, or let your AI bring it in when your plants come up. You never open an app. Your AI does the work for you.
What Gardener gives your AI
- Garden toolsCare checks, plans, and a work log.
- Your garden's memoryPlants, beds, and history that stay saved.
- Care instructionsReviewed sources with clear limits.
- Garden skillsSetup, planting, care checks, and concerns.
@Gardener One raised bed, 4 by 8 feet. I want tomatoes and salad.
Using Gardener
Start with three crops. First, tell me about your bed and your season.
2It learns your garden
It learns your bed and your season.
Tell it the size, the sun, and who helps. Your last frost date comes from you, a seed packet, or a local guide. Gardener saves what you say. What you don't know stays unknown.
3What to plant
What to plant, and when.
Three crops to start. Lettuce and peas go in early. Tomatoes wait until after your last frost. You choose the dates, and Gardener keeps them.
Gardener has no weather feed, and it never guesses your frost date. The plan follows your seed packets and your local guide.
Gardener · Planting calendar3 crops
MarAprMayJun
Lettuce
Peas
Tomatoes
Last frost, about Apr 20
✓ Saved as your plan
4One next step
Then it picks one step for this weekend.
Not the whole season at once. One job, with a day, the people who help, and a clear way to know it's done.
Gardener · Next step30 min
- Rake the lettuce and peas squares smooth.
- Sow each crop at the depth on its seed packet.
- Water the rows gently.
- Write today's date on a row marker.
- When
- Saturday morning
- Who
- You and the kids
- Done when
- Both crops sown, date on the marker
✓ Saved as your next step
5Tell it
Check it. Tell it what you see.
Say it in the chat. Gardener saves what came up, row by row. Rows that are not up yet stay open for the next check.
Five rows came up. Row 4 is not up yet.
Gardener · SeedlingsSaved
6It adapts
The plan adapts to your garden.
What you report changes the next step, and the card shows why. Come back in any chat, weeks later. It remembers your bed.
Cold nights still. Can the tomatoes go out?
Gardener · Tomatoes, a bit laterUpdated
Apr 25→50°F nights
BecauseYou reported cold nights this week. Your seed packet says to wait for warm nights.
- What
- Check the night temperatures again before you plant out.
- Who
- You
- Until then
- Keep the tomato squares open.
Remembers
Raised bed 4×8 ft6 hours of sunFrost about Apr 20Kids on weekends5 of 6 rows up
✓ Saved for next time
7More of your garden
The same idea works for every plant you grow.
Know what you have. Check before you act. Keep a true record.
Gardener · Watering
Water by the soil, not the calendar
A check date is a reminder to look. Push a finger into the soil. Water only the dry ones.
✓ Saved
Gardener · Leaf check
Yellow leaves, no idea why
It asks before it guesses. Three checks first. No change to care until you know more.
Possible cause: the soil stays wet. Check first.
- 1Soil at 2 inches
- 2Drain hole
- 3New leaves
✓ Concern saved
Gardener · Sun map
Where the sun really falls
Check the shady corner a few times in a day. Plant choices then fit the real spot.
8 hPatio
6 hLawn
2 hFence corner, damp clay
✓ Saved to your yard
Gardener · Harvest
Lots of leaves, few tomatoes?
A weekly routine for two pots. Pick it, then tell it how it went.
- MonCheck soil
- Tue
- WedTie stems
- Thu
- Fri
- SatPick
- Sun
✓ Saved to history
Gardener · Busy weeks
Ten minutes a week
Away most weekends? Group 12 plants by thirst. One check on Thursday.
Thirsty4Basil, ferns
Medium5Herbs, pothos
Tough3Snake plant
✓ Saved
How do I connect Gardener?
You sign in with Google or Apple when your AI first connects. It works in AI assistants that support remote MCP servers, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Muse. In ChatGPT, search the app directory for Gardener by Lilypad.
Care with clear limits
Gardener is an AI assisted educational and recordkeeping tool for adults age 18 and older. Source review is performed by AI, not an independent horticultural review. It does not identify plants, diagnose plant problems, prescribe pesticides, mix chemicals, treat plants, certify food safety, buy supplies, or control irrigation. It has no live weather feed and does not guess frost dates. A due check is a reminder to look, not proof that a plant needs water or that it is time to plant.
Follow your seed packets and local guidance, and ask a local garden expert when a cause stays unclear. Calendar events and reminders depend on separate host capabilities and authorization. Saving a plan does not send reminders or provide continuous monitoring.