For vegetable gardeners

Grow your gardenlike you’ve lived heretwenty years.

Row & Bed is a plant reference built around your ZIP code and your beds: draw them to scale, fill them square by square, and get your zone, your frost dates, your forecast, and a cited page for every variety you plant.

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I. Where you live

One ZIP. Everything that ZIP tells us.

Enter a five-digit ZIP and we pull your USDA zone, your 30-year frost dates, your soil temperature, and the live NOAA forecast for the grid cell directly over your garden. Every page after that reads against those numbers. Not a national average, not a seed-packet guess.

Plate No. 1 · Your area

ZIP 43215

Reading your zone, frost dates, and forecast…

II. Your beds

Draw the garden you have. Fill it square by square.

Draw each bed to its real size, then fill it a square foot at a time for winter, spring, summer, and fall. Each square holds as many plants as the extension square-foot charts allow, and the frost dates from your ZIP run across the top of every bed.

Plate No. 2: From the running plannerrowandbed.com/garden-planner · ZIP 35802 · October 1, 2026

The tomato bed on a phone in summer 2027: 32 squares of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, basil, marigold, beans, and carrots, under a strip marking the last frost on April 4 and the first on October 30 — On a phone: the tomato bed, 32 squares, 13 varieties.

The planner on a computer: the list of five beds, the kitchen bed filled for summer 2027, and the tray of crops that can be planted in summer — On a computer: your beds on the left, the crops that can go in this season on the right.

This garden: five beds, 96 squares, 34 varieties for a Huntsville summer. Every count links to the extension chart it came from.

Draw your own beds

III. What’s worth growing

Plants that earn their bed space.

A bed is a small place. The library is built the way a neighbor with twenty seasons would build it: varieties picked for flavor, for reliability, and for whether they finish where you live.

Cherokee Purple tomatoes, deep dusky red with green shoulders — Cherokee Purple · 72 days

Sungold cherry tomatoes ripening on the vine — Sungold · 57 days

French Breakfast radishes just pulled, tops still on — French Breakfast radish · 25 days

Genovese basil leaves — Genovese basil · 68 days

Clemson Spineless okra pods — Clemson Spineless okra · 60 days

California Wonder bell peppers — California Wonder pepper · 75 days

Yellow Pear tomatoes, small golden fruit on the vine — Yellow Pear tomato · 78 days

Provider bush beans ready to pick — Provider bush bean · 50 days

Bright Lights chard with colored stems — Bright Lights chard · 55 days

Black Beauty zucchini with blossom — Black Beauty zucchini · 55 days

Heads of lettuce in a garden row — Lettuce · three rounds a season

Every variety in the library carries an honest answer to one question: does it finish before your first frost.

IV. The variety page

What a variety page knows.

Here’s the Early Girl page, straight from the running app, with dates resolved for ZIP 35802, not for the nation.

Plate No. 3: From the running appapp.rowandbed.com/varieties/early-girl · June 12, 2026

The Early Girl page header: name, Latin binomial, chips for 55 days to harvest, indeterminate habit, full sun, frost-tender — The page header

The Early Girl calendar resolved against Huntsville frost normals: start seed February 21, transplant April 15, first ripe June 9, pull green October 16 — The calendar, resolved against your frost normals

Two disease cards flagged Resistant: Fusarium wilt and Verticillium wilt, which Early Girl resists — Resistance, called out by name

Soil pH band drawn on a scale: ideal 6 to 6.8, tolerated 5.5 to 7 — Soil pH, drawn not described

Feeding the plant: the summary paragraph and all five stages from soil prep through mid-harvest, each with timing, actions, amendments, and the reason why — Feeding, stage by stage, all five of them

Plant near, plant separate: companion cards each carrying an evidence-strength chip — Companions, with evidence strength

Where this came from: a tally of citations by source, tagged by region — The sources, tallied

Dates computed for your ZIP. Seed, transplant, first ripe, pull green, all resolved against Huntsville’s own frost normals, not a national calendar.
Pests ranked for zone 8a. Peak months flagged, treatments ordered from gentlest up, beneficials called out so you know who to spare.
A citation on every fact. And when we’re wrong, “Suggest a correction” is on the page. Verified fixes ship for every user.

V. Know what you’re looking at

Name the thing on the leaf.

Every pest and disease has a page, pictured at the stage you’ll actually meet it, with a peak-month calendar and treatment ranked from gentlest to last resort. The allies get pages too, so you know who to leave alone.

Tomato hornworm caterpillar on a stem — PestTomato hornworm

Early blight lesions with concentric rings on a tomato leaf — DiseaseEarly blight

Aphid cluster on the underside of a leaf — PestAphids

Septoria leaf spot on tomato foliage — DiseaseSeptoria leaf spot

Tomato with dark blossom end rot patch — DisorderBlossom end rot

Cutworm caterpillar curled in soil — PestCutworm

Late blight damage on tomato foliage — DiseaseLate blight

Braconid wasp cocoons on a parasitized hornworm — BeneficialBraconid wasp

Green lacewing with translucent wings — BeneficialGreen lacewing

Every pest and disease in the library, identified, ranked, and cited.

VI. The weather, synthesized

“Rained 0.7 inches overnight. Soil’s saturated through tomorrow. The tomatoes and peppers don’t need watering.”

Reading live rainfall…

That sentence is built from the NOAA grid cell directly over your garden (about a mile and a half on a side), not a county average or an airport reading from across town.

We track rainfall in both directions, what already fell and what’s coming, so the advice accounts for water the sky has delivered before it asks for any from your hose.

And when frost threatens your beds, you hear the evening before: one email, one sentence. “Frost Saturday night. Cover the tomatoes.” Silence the rest of the time.

By design

A few things we’re deliberately not.

Not a task list
The planner shows what’s in each bed, season by season. It never turns that into chores. No checkboxes, no streaks, no “3 things to do this Sunday.”
Not a one-size-fits-all calendar
Every recommendation is anchored to your zone, your frost dates, and this week’s forecast, not a national calendar or a seed-packet guess.
Not for ornamentals or lawns
We focus on vegetables, herbs, and the perennials that go with them. Other tools are better for the rest.
Not the only thing you’ll use
We’re the reference you open on the way out the door. The garden is still the point.

A note from the founder

I built Row & Bed because I couldn’t find what I needed.

I’m a first-year gardener with a 25 by 50 foot plot in Huntsville, Alabama, zone 8a. I went in ambitious. I also went in without a good reference. What I found online was either too generic, too specific to someone else’s climate, or locked behind an app that wanted me to manage a checklist.

The information in Row & Bed comes from public sources: extension services, grower libraries, climate data. I’ve read carefully and done my best to get it right. I’m not promising it’s perfect. When something’s wrong, you tell me and I fix it.

Andy Smith, Row & Bed

Pricing

One plan. Everything included.

Most gardeners

Annual

$59/year

That’s $4.92/month, half the monthly rate.

Your subscription renews automatically at $59/year (or $10/month, depending on plan) until cancelled. Cancel any time at rowandbed.com/account.

Start with Annual

Monthly

$10/month

Switch to annual any time.

Your subscription renews automatically at $59/year (or $10/month, depending on plan) until cancelled. Cancel any time at rowandbed.com/account.

Start monthly

No free trial. US only for now. 30-day refund on your first purchase, no questions asked.

Questions

Asked before, answered plainly.

Why isn’t there a trial?

No. The 30-day refund on your first purchase does the trial’s job without the countdown clock. If Row & Bed isn’t useful in your first month, you get your money back.

Do I have to draw my garden?

Setup starts with a sample bed you can resize, move, or leave as it is. Draw your real beds to scale and fill them square by square, and each square tells you how many plants it holds. If you leave the sample untouched, it doesn’t save.

Can I try the planner before I subscribe?

Yes. The garden planner is free and needs no account. Your plan lives in the page’s link, so you can bookmark it or send it to someone. When you subscribe, the plan comes with you into setup.

How does it know what works in my garden?

You give us a ZIP. We map it to your USDA zone, your 30-year frost dates, and the NOAA forecast grid directly over your garden. Then you draw your beds, and every crop you place is checked against those dates: whether it can go in now, and when it opens again if it can’t.

Where does the plant knowledge come from?

Cooperative extension services (Clemson, Auburn, NCSU, Cornell, UGA), along with other public growing references. Every fact carries its citation, and every page has a “Suggest a correction” link. When a fix is verified, it ships for every user.

Does it work on my phone?

Yes. Row & Bed is a website built for the phone in your garden pocket. Add it to your home screen and it opens like any app. Nothing to install, nothing to update.

How do frost warnings reach me?

By email, the evening before it matters. One sentence per alert (“Frost Saturday night. Cover the tomatoes.”) and silence the rest of the time. No daily digests, no re-engagement nudges.

I grow flowers, houseplants, or a lawn. Is this for me?

Probably not. We cover vegetables and herbs, including the perennials that share their beds: strawberries, artichokes, the woody herbs. We’d rather be deep there than shallow everywhere.

Grow the plants you meant to, this year.

Draw your beds, fill them square by square, and see your zone, your dates, and your forecast, all in one calm place.

Set up your garden

Row & Bed is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Cornell University, the University of Georgia, Oregon State University, any other university or extension service, Johnny’s Selected Seeds, Territorial Seed Company, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Charles Dowding, Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch, NOAA, the USDA, or any other organization or individual referenced on this site or in the app. We use publicly available information from these sources and cite them where appropriate. All trademarks and copyrights belong to their respective owners.