Describe a bed and find plants that suit it
Describe what a bed is really like (Seasonry+) and Seasonry checks every plant against it: on the plant’s own card, while you carry one over the bed, and in a catalogue filtered to the bed’s answers.
1. Switch on the bed’s Conditions
In Edit mode, click a bare patch of the bed, clear of its plants, so the bed itself is selected rather than something growing in it. Its panel opens on the right. Find the Conditions card there and switch it on.
Its rows open, each asking what this place is really like: Soil is what the earth is made of, pH is how acidic or alkaline it is, Ground is how damp it stays, Sun is how much light it gets, and Water is how much water the bed gets. Describing a bed is part of Seasonry+. Without it, a bed nobody has described yet shows the same questions greyed out. Switching the card off later keeps your answers. It just stops comparing plants with them until you switch it back on.
Described beds stay described If your subscription ends, a bed you have already described keeps its answers, and its plants keep showing their ticks and crosses.
2. Fill in only what you know
Press an answer on every row you are sure of. A typical border might be Loam, Ordinary ground and Full sun, with pH left empty because nobody has tested it. Anything you are unsure of, leave empty: a row left empty is ignored, and never counts against a plant. A wrong guess is worse than a blank, because it turns into a tick or a cross on every plant in the bed. Pressed the wrong one? Press the chosen answer again and the row is empty once more.
Water works in one direction. Set how much water the bed gets, and a plant that needs less still suits it: a bed with Average water suits plants that want Very little, A little or Average, and only a plant that wants A lot gets a cross.
If you have a soil test Each pH answer shows its range beside its name, such as Neutral 6.8–7.2, so a reading from a soil test kit lands straight on the right step.
3. See which plants suit the bed
Select a plant in the bed, and the Conditions card in its details on the right now compares it with the bed. On each row a leaf marks what the plant wants and a short dark line marks what the bed offers, and the row ends in a tick when the bed suits the plant or a cross when it does not. The card’s header names the bed and how many of the compared conditions the plant meets. A row you left empty ends in no mark at all.
You can find this out before planting, too. Carry a plant from the Plants panel over a bed it does not suit, or move one already in the garden over such a bed, and a short note follows the pointer, showing which conditions differ from its needs. The note only appears when something differs, has nothing to press, and never stops you planting: let go and the plant lands where you put it.
No note is not a full check Only a difference on a row both the bed and the plant can answer brings the note up. Over a bed nobody has described, or on a row left empty, it stays quiet, so no note means nothing answered disagrees, not that every condition was checked.
4. Find plants for the bed
Once at least one row is answered, a Find plants for this bed button appears at the foot of the bed’s Conditions card. It opens the catalogue in the Plants panel with the Conditions filter already set to the bed’s answers. On the Water row it selects the bed’s own amount and every smaller one, so plants that need less water stay in the list, the same rule the ticks follow. Rows you left empty narrow nothing.
Describe your other beds the same way, and every planting tells you whether the plant belongs there. The catalogue’s Conditions filter on its own is free on every plan. Only describing a bed needs Seasonry+.
Your search stays put The button only sets the Conditions filter. Anything typed in the search box and any other filter you had on stay as they were, so if the list looks short, clear those first.