How it came together
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The itch
We wanted one honest place to time plantings by the moon and remember what actually worked in our garden — without ads, logins, or someone selling the data back to us.
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The app
So we built it: a free, ad-free, private Android app with a live lunar calendar, a plant guide, and a journal that auto-tags every entry with its moon phase.
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The garden grew
Companion planting, soil pH, crop rotation, composting, foraging, and survival-nutrition guides followed — the tools a garden actually needs across a season, not just a pretty calendar.
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The website
This site opened the same thinking to the web: a Learn library, a community feed, a blog, and interactive tools you can use right in the browser — free, no account required to read.
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Where it’s heading
More Power Tools, cloud sync so your journal follows you from phone to web, and — down the road — an iPhone version. Built slowly, by hand, and kept honest.
Why we built it
Moon Phase Garden started with a simple frustration: every gardening app seemed to want something from you. Your email, your location, your attention, a subscription before you'd even planted a seed — and a wall of ads in between. We wanted the opposite. A tool that respects the person holding the phone, works even when the signal doesn't, and treats the oldest gardening wisdom — planting in rhythm with the moon — with both curiosity and honesty.
So we built it ourselves, one release at a time. It's the work of I am Geek, a small technology shop, made in the evenings and weekends between real gardens and real life.
What we believe
- Free and ad-free, for real. The core app costs nothing and shows no ads. Ever. There is a paid tier — Power Tools — and it is in free preview right now, with no payment taken on this site. It buys genuine advanced features; it never fences off what was already free.
- Private by default. No real names, no precise location, no IP logging, no tracking SDKs. Your garden is yours. Anything that syncs is opt-in.
- Honest about the moon. We treat moon-phase gardening as a tradition and a planning rhythm, not a magic guarantee — and we pair it with weather, your zone, and your own journal so you can judge for yourself.
- Safety first, always. Where the stakes are real — foraging, medicinal plants — we warn clearly and never hide the dangerous look-alikes.
Where it's going
The app grows steadily: from moon-timed planting and a 94-plant guide, into foraging and nutrition, and on into a full "plan your garden" toolkit — companion planting, crop rotation, soil pH, and more, all live in the app today. This website grows alongside it, so the knowledge inside the app is open to everyone on the web, too.