Version history

Version 2.0: Magic

V 2.1.0

App and Account

• 'Small Garden' now allows up to 20 square metres. grove no longer uses a special calculation for row companion planting.

Beds

• The bed type 'Free bed' is now called 'No fixed system'.
• The dialog for creating beds is completely new.
• Bed properties: Choose between outdoors, greenhouse, raised bed, cold frame and pot / container as the growing location.
• Bed properties: Set whether your bed is sunny, in partial shade or shady.
• New hints for the year change and when creating beds.

Bed Plan

• When you open a bed of the current year, grove jumps to the current month. For other years it jumps to the month in which the first planting starts.
• Neighbours, predecessors and successors in the bed: Click the marking to see the reason, for bad neighbours also the recommended spacing.
• Bad neighbours and predecessors in row companion planting are now easier to read.
• Easier selection of plantings that share a row or overlap.
• If you create a planting outside the regular planting times, grove shows a hint. It suggests all possible planting times.
• If you change the start month of a planting, grove suggests a new harvest month where needed.
• For plants you harvest over a longer period (e.g. tomatoes) or often replant (e.g. radishes), grove shows the earliest expected harvest.
• Beds without a fixed system: When you place a new planting, you no longer open an existing planting by accident.
• Beds without a fixed system: Click the growing partner symbol in the bed, and the new planting lands exactly on the partner's area.
• Beds without a fixed system: Clicking in the bed or dragging a plant into it places a whole row or a single plant, depending on the plant.
• Beds without a fixed system: When you draw an area, the rows run along the long side. On an almost square area in an empty bed they run across at first, after that in the same direction as your last planting.

Garden Fairy

• The Garden Fairy takes light into account: sun lovers like tomatoes go on your brightest beds, plants for partial shade and shade rather on the darker ones. If all your beds get the same light, she plans as before. If a plant gets less light than it likes, she tells you in her notes.
• The Garden Fairy takes the growing location of your beds into account. For example, she doesn't put tomatoes in a cold frame. If a wishlist plant doesn't suit any of your growing locations, she tells you in her notes.
• The Garden Fairy plans realistic quantities: in a small garden she prefers many different plants in small numbers, in a large garden correspondingly more. If you enter a number in your wishlist, that number always applies.
• After a run across several beds, you'll also find the Garden Fairy's notes in the bed overview, sorted by bed.
• You can exclude plants you don't like directly from the Garden Fairy's suggestion.

Plants

• Good neighbours can now also be growing partners. These are row partners, underplanting and plant guilds.
• You can now add personal notes to plants.
• The plant search now also finds plurals, such as "tomatoes".

Changed Calculations

• If two plantings share a row or an area, for example carrots between the lettuces, grove counts correspondingly fewer plants of each. Underplanting and plant guilds still count in full.
• Number of plants per row: grove now keeps only half a plant spacing to the edge. That's why most rows fit one more plant.

V 2.0.5

• Growing partners: Some good neighbours are planted together on purpose, such as leeks and celery alternating in one row or basil beneath the tomato. In the plant details and the plant list you can spot them by their dark green frame and their own symbol.
• In the bed, grove shows where the partner belongs. The spacing between the two may be smaller for this.
• The Garden Fairy plants growing partners right along with them, for example basil to the left and right of the tomato. You can switch this off in her options.

V 2.0.4

• Fixed the year change for beds following Franck and Langerhorst: rows now reliably move to the right position.
• After the year change, the new year opens automatically.

V 2.0.3

• Correct typography for botanical names.
• The video on 'Row Companion Planting by Gertrud Franck' is now linked in the dialog for creating and editing beds.
• Bed info links now open in the right language.

V 2.0.2

• You'll now find diseases and pests in the plant details and in the navigation.
• There's more information on neighbours and crop rotation. Hover over the other plant with your mouse or tap the 'i'.
• You can now see the botanical family and genus and use them as filters.

We keep working on this data and add it to the existing plants bit by bit.

V 2.0.1

• Free bed: The shape editor now shows lengths, and drawing straight lines is easier.
• You can now try grove without registering first.
• If you paid directly on the web, we reworked cancelling and withdrawing from your contract in the settings.

V 2.0.0

Garden Fairy

• She fills empty spots in the bed, plans preceding and following crops or fills a whole bed.
• Takes companion planting, crop rotation, plant spacing and planting times into account.
• For vegetables and green manure.
• For a single bed, selected beds or your whole garden.
• She creates proposals that you can change, accept or discard.

Wishlist

• Put together a list of the plants you want to grow.
• The number of plants already planned is counted and shown.
• Filter plants by your wishlist and by what you have not planned yet.

Garden Plan and Bed Overview

• The beds can be put together into a graphical garden plan.
• In the existing overview every bed gets a preview image.
• You can set the order of the beds in the list yourself.

Bed Plan

• Free beds can now have individual shapes, for example raised beds in a U shape.
• Changes to one planting can be applied to all plantings of that plant in the bed.
• Bed printout: short plant profiles with the most important information about the plants in the bed.
• The 'Edit bed' dialog lets you delete all plantings of a bed at once.
• Free bed: you can now also set the size and position of a planting using input fields.
• Free bed: you can edit a planting by clicking the plant in the month selection.
• The bed plan is even faster. It was never slow, but on older devices every optimisation helps.

Plants and Plant Knowledge

• Perennial plants: plants that stay in the same spot for several years.
• New plant data: main crop/companion crop, green manure properties and frost resistance.
• Cross tables for companion planting and crop rotation: well-known analogue formats, implemented in a modern way. You open them from the plant list.
• Crop rotation warnings for row companion planting according to Gertrud Franck and Familie Langerhorst.
• Planting times display: in the details of a plant you can switch to the single view.
• Planting times display: move the mouse or your finger over the planting times to see sowing and harvest dates.

Filters

• Smart filters: in the plant list of the beds grove suggests matching filters.
• New filters for main crop/companion crop according to Schwester C. Weinrich.
• New filter 'Good predecessors'.
• New filters for the wishlist.

Harvest Preview

• Better scrolling on small screens: months and categories stay visible.
• The beds where the plants grow can be opened directly.

Tasks

• Tasks can now be printed as a list.
• The filters are kept when you open a bed in between.
• You can filter for tasks without a bed.
• You can now move tasks from one week to another via drag & drop.
• You can also move all open tasks of a week via drag & drop.

App and Account

• Offline reading mode within the app.
• Sign in with Apple and Google.
• The start of the year change now shows more information.

Changed Calculations

• The harvest period is now calculated from more data (culture duration and standing duration per planting time). The results can differ from the previous ones.
• The distance calculation for predecessors and successors uses new values and no longer depends on the size of the plant.

Version 1.4: Translations and Internationalisation

V 1.4.5

• Plant drafts: Since version 1.4.0, all plants were accidentally shown for selection, even if they weren't fully set up yet. These are now marked as 'Draft'.
• Bugfix: In beds with row companion planting: Planting distances were not correctly applied when a planting was created via drag & drop.
• Images now show links to Creative Commons licences, where the image was published under a CC licence.

V 1.4.4

• Preparations for additional plants
• Background preparations for green manure and permanent plants

V 1.4.3

• Fixes a bug in task calculation for greenhouses (duplicate tasks could occur)
• Several minor bug fixes and small visual improvements

V 1.4.2

• Tasks page extended:
  • The number of required plants is shown.
  • The beds for which the task applies are displayed and can be opened in the dialog.
  • Filter for beds, task category and task status added.

V 1.4.1

• Preparations for additional plants

V 1.4.0

• Translations and internationalisation:
  • English, French and Dutch added.
  • Length units can be switched between metric and imperial.
  • Temperature unit can be switched between Celsius and Fahrenheit.
• The first year tended with grove can be set in the year selection.
• The variety is now also shown in the bed plan.

Version 1.3: Native Apps / AI Assistant Revised

V 1.3.0

• iOS, Android and macOS app released.
• AI Assistant revised:
  • Now uses Mistral AI and more local tools, enabling complete processing within the EU.
  • Additional privacy information in the AI Assistant.
  • Automatic deletion of chats older than 30 days.
  • Can now send e-mails to me if you report errors.

Version 1.2: Free Beds Completed, Interface Optimised

V 1.2.2

• Export and delete user data
• Bugfix: When a planting was copied in row companion planting beds, the bed could sometimes no longer be opened.

V 1.2.1

• Bugfix: If no row can be determined when creating a planting, the creation is cancelled.

V 1.2.0

• Free bed: Print / PDF export now available.
• Free bed: If several plantings overlap, the planting to be edited can be selected.
• Drag & drop of plants improved, especially on touch devices.
• Many minor interface revisions.
• Performance improved on older devices.
• Bugfix: Fields in 'New Planting' could not be edited.
• Bugfix: 'Sowing' sometimes showed '0' instead of 'Direct sowing'.

Version 1.1: Free Beds, Editing in Top View

V 1.1.2

• Information about unfavourable positions is now shown at the top instead of the bottom. Otherwise, on touch devices, your hand covers it.
• Touch devices: Information about unfavourable positions in row companion planting beds is now displayed when a plant is dragged over them.
• Touch devices: Moving a planting via drag & drop is now only started in edit mode. This allows the bed to be scrolled normally.

V 1.1.2

• Creating plantings now also possible via drag & drop
• Row companion planting beds: drag & drop on mobile devices improved
• Keyboard navigation in the bed plan (see guide 'Planting a Bed')
• Free bed: When creating a planting, the appropriate months are shown in the month selection
• Free bed: When creating a planting, automatic alignment with other plantings works correctly
• Free bed: When creating a planting, the row orientation is set based on the size
• For plants, 'Light and Dark' is now also available as a germination type

V 1.1.1

• The bed type can no longer be changed after the bed has been created

V 1.1.0

• Free bed planning: This new bed type enables free planning of beds in a top-down view
• Actions in the bed plan when editing a planting
• Calculation of the number of individual plants per planting (row or area)

Version 1.0: First Public Release

V 1.0.5:

• Bugfix: Corrected calculation of tasks when the calendar week of 1 January falls in the previous year (fortunately not the case for 2026)

V 1.0.4:

• Link to the new video guides (help icon, top right)
• Display of the change history
• Bugfix: ABC in plant list correctly positioned (was shifted by one plant)

V 1.0.3:

• Beds based on the Langerhorst family method: Row calculation extended with the option 'Keep space at the end for the year changeover'
• Possibility to upgrade to the full version during the demo period
• Edit existing planting: Months can be changed using +/–
• Bugfix: Closing a help box is now saved
• Bugfix: Target of drag & drop of a plant is now determined more accurately

V 1.0.2:

• Notification when a new version is available, with a prompt to refresh the page
• Display of prices before registration

V 1.0.1:

• Home page with information about the help system in grove
• Help for the side view of beds

V 1.0.0:

• Initial release