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Short, task-focused guides to the GardenDraft planner.
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Garden workspace
Keyboard Shortcuts in GardenDraft: Complete Reference
Every keyboard shortcut in the garden workspace — palette navigation, nudging, copy and paste, the measure tool, and undo.
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How to Design Your First Garden Bed
Add a raised bed, in-ground row, or container to your garden plan: choosing a type and shape, setting dimensions, and naming beds.
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How to Place, Move, and Space Plants
Place plants from the palette, repeat the last plant with Ctrl/⌘+Click, nudge with arrow keys, measure distances, and undo mistakes.
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How to Copy a Bed and Everything In It
Duplicate a whole bed — plants included — with copy and paste, and control where the copy lands on your plan.
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Frost dates & scheduling
How GardenDraft Sets Your Frost Dates (and How to Change Them)
Your frost dates come from the NOAA station nearest your ZIP code. Here's what the 'safer' dates mean and how to override the medians.
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How to Read Your Planting Calendar
What the colored bars mean, how to reschedule by dragging the transplant dot, and how succession suggestions work.
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How to Adjust Planting Timing for a Specific Crop
Reschedule a planting by dragging it on the calendar, or edit a custom variety's timing rules — maturity, transplant window, harden-off, and anchor.
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Planning tools
Tasks, logbook & supplies
How to Use Tasks, the Journal, and Harvest Tracking
Where your sow/transplant/harvest tasks come from, adding custom recurring tasks, and logging journal entries and harvests.
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How the Shopping List and Seed Inventory Work Together
The shopping list computes what to buy from your plan minus what's already in your seed inventory — here's the math and the workflow.
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Account & apps
Using GardenDraft on iPhone and Android Browsers
GardenDraft works in modern mobile browsers today, with native apps in progress. Here's how sign-in works and what to expect on a phone.
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Your Data, Exports, and What Happens If You Cancel
GardenDraft is free for one garden with up to three beds. Grower lifts the capacity caps, and canceling leaves your records readable.
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