How to Adjust Planting Timing for a Specific Crop

GardenDraft's catalog timing fits most cases, but your variety or technique may differ. There are two ways to change how a crop's dates are computed.

Reschedule one planting on the calendar

Drag the round transplant (or direct-sow) marker on the planting calendar left or right. The faded bar behind it shows the catalog's recommended window, and the indoor-sowing and hardening-off bars recalculate as you drag. This moves that one planting only.

Edit timing rules for a custom variety

Timing rules — days to maturity, the seed-to-transplant window, harden-off days, the outdoor planting offset, and the planting anchor — live on the variety. For your own custom varieties, edit them under Settings → Custom varieties:

1. Find the variety and click the pencil next to the value you want to change.
2. Ranges take a min and max in days. Enter or Apply saves; Esc cancels.
3. Plantings that use the variety reschedule from the new numbers.

Each edited value has a reset control that returns it to the species default.

Creating a custom variety

Pick Other in the workspace's variety picker to name a new variety without leaving the planner — you can set its days to maturity on the spot and refine the rest in Settings → Custom varieties.

However you adjust them, all dates stay anchored to your garden's frost window — see How GardenDraft sets your frost dates.