How to Use Tasks, the Journal, and Harvest Tracking

Where tasks come from

Tasks & log opens on the Tasks tab, which lists every sow, harden-off, transplant, and harvest task for the season. They're generated from your plantings and frost dates. No plantings or no ZIP code means no tasks: set your ZIP under Settings → Location if the list is unexpectedly empty. Frost dates in GardenDraft explains that timing source.

Each task has three buttons: Complete, Snooze (pushes it a week), and Skip. Everything you action lands in the Task History tab.

Custom tasks

Click New task for your own reminders — watering, fertilizing, pruning, weeding, pest checks, or anything else. Custom tasks can repeat every N days, run until an end date, and attach to a specific garden or bed.

Journal

Journal is your free-form garden diary: pick a garden and write a dated note. Entries list newest-first and filter by garden. To remove one, click the trash icon on its card and confirm.

Harvests

Click Log harvest to record what you picked: the planting, date, weight (oz, lb, or g) and/or count, plus optional notes. The Harvests tab rolls these up into totals, a monthly yield chart, and a Top producers leaderboard. Its Recent harvests list has a trash icon on each entry if you need to delete one.

Advice

The Advice page lists care that's due for the crops you're growing, one row per crop. Click Done once you've done it, or Hide for the crop (for example Hide for Tomato) to stop seeing that tip for it.

Garden Book

The Garden Book tab assembles your year — bed diagrams, schedule, and plant reference — into a printable PDF. If you want the plant-level schedule before exporting, see reading your planting calendar. More in Your data, exports, and what happens if you cancel.

Frequently asked questions

Why is my task list empty?

Season tasks are generated from your plantings and frost dates. If you have plantings but no tasks, set your ZIP code in Settings → Location so GardenDraft can resolve your frost window.