SeedSort

The Garden Designer is Here

After more than a year of development, the Garden Designer is ready — and it's a big moment for SeedSort. This isn't just about planning what to grow anymore. It's about designing exactly where everything goes.

Design Your Space, Your Way

The designer gives you a flexible canvas you can pan, zoom, and resize freely. Draw beds in whatever shape suits your garden: rectangles, circles, or custom polygon shapes for those less-than-perfect growing spaces. Whether you like neat, structured rows or something a bit more freeform, it adapts to how you actually garden.

Within each bed, you define regions for your crops (again, any shape you like), and the designer automatically arranges plants using a layout scheme of your choice: grid, hexagonal, radial, or ring. Every plant respects real spacing and sizing, so you're working from accurate plans rather than rough guesses.

Your Seeds, Front and Centre

Your seed library is fully woven into the designer. You can drop your own seeds straight into a layout, peek at seed details without leaving the canvas, and link them to one of the 122 built-in crop types. If you haven't set spacing for a seed, it falls back to the crop defaults so nothing breaks.

Easy to Read, Easy to Plan

Crops that have images show them; those that don't appear as colour-coded circles scaled to their spacing, so layouts stay accurate and easy to read at a glance. A full crop image set is on its way.

The designer also keeps running totals for you: which crops are in each bed, how many plants that adds up to, and summary counts right on the canvas. When you're ready, export the whole thing as a PNG. Large gardens split automatically across multiple images.

What's Coming Next

There's already a solid list of features in the pipeline: curved and organic bed shapes, a consistent crop image set with customisable icons, bed-to-location linking, crop timelines, automatic sowing plans, zones for larger spaces, and undo/redo. Plenty to look forward to.

Try It and Let Me Know

The designer has reached the point where real-world use will teach me more than further development in isolation. If you give it a go, your feedback genuinely shapes what gets built next, especially anything that feels clunky, confusing, or missing from your usual workflow.