GARDNVRSE App Features

A simple authentication flow that lets users create an account and save their garden data so they can pick up where they left off across devices and seasons.

A short, friendly questionnaire that asks about space type, skill level, goals, and time availability. It outputs starter garden recommendations, basic plant suggestions, and default notification settings.

Beginner-friendly navigation that clearly connects core pages like Home, Garden Coach, Plant Log, Community Feed, Plant Database, Notifications, and Settings.

Foundational controls for notification on/off, quiet hours, account info, and basic preferences, helping users feel in control from day one.

Users can create project spaces (like “2025 Balcony Garden”), add plants, attach notes and photos, and track key dates such as planting, transplanting, and harvest.

A focused log for each plant with notes, photos, date history, and manual growth-stage tagging. This turns each plant into a mini story users can follow season to season.

A simple, safe, Calgary-centered feed where users post photos and captions and comment on each other’s progress, building early social momentum.

A curated starter set of 20–40 beginner-friendly plants that actually work in Calgary. Each entry includes planting windows, frost sensitivity, water and light needs, spacing, and a beginner difficulty rating.

A first-generation, prompt-engineered garden coach that answers text questions with Calgary-aware tips and friendly explanations using the core database. No images yet, but highly practical for beginners.

Simple but meaningful reminders for watering, basic frost warnings, planting date nudges, and project check-ins. Designed to test early engagement and stickiness.

Notifications evolve into a smarter system with weather-aware watering suggestions, growth-stage reminders, fertilizer cycles, behaviour-adaptive timing, and per-plant controls. Care becomes more precise and less annoying.

The coach becomes more conversational and tailored, offering beginner/intermediate/expert tone modes, weekly ‘Your Garden This Week’ summaries, plant-specific advice, and starter image-based troubleshooting.

The database grows to cover more vegetables, herbs, greens, flowers, and root crops with added details like pests, diseases, expected yield, hydroponic viability, and realistic harvest timelines for Calgary.

More refined inputs such as sunlight hours, budget range, household composition, and gardening personality type. Outputs include seasonal calendars, suggested layouts, and mission recommendations.

Richer journaling with weather stamps, growth-stage tagging, plant status indicators, simple analytics (like days since planting), and privacy controls for each entry.

Levels, XP, missions, achievements, and seasonal challenges that reward real-world gardening behaviour and keep users coming back throughout the season.

A structured library of micro-lessons organized into categories like Beginner Basics, Troubleshooting, Hydroponics, and Seasonal Prep, with suggestions tailored to each user’s plants and profile.

Tools to generate seed-starting schedules, seasonal checklists, and plant-specific timelines—exportable or printable for users who like analog planning too.

More organized community spaces with categories (Help, Progress, Hydroponics, Questions), reactions, local hashtags, and search/filter by plant or topic.

City-wide and household-level challenges like ‘Start Your Seeds Week’ and ‘First Frost Protection Challenge’ that help families and friends learn together.

A dedicated track for indoor and hydroponic growers featuring simple system guides, light schedules, nutrient basics, and troubleshooting for common failures.

Users can log frost, pests, and unusual weather with location context, feeding a growing microclimate map that improves future recommendations.

Early content that connects gardening to the kitchen through simple recipes, harvest photos, and inspiration for what to cook with homegrown food.

Sensor integrations for soil moisture, temperature, light, humidity, and hydroponic water/EC/pH. The system uses this data to predict stress, optimize watering, and deliver microclimate-aware suggestions.

High-accuracy image-based diagnostics for Alberta weeds, pest damage, disease patterns, nutrient issues, and growth stages, paired with confidence scores and next-step treatments.

An in-app marketplace where users can buy and sell seeds, seedlings, produce, soil mixes, compost, tools, and services, with reviews, secure payments, and microclimate-based tags.

Tools to discover, subscribe to, and manage local CSA memberships with pick-up coordination and communication between farms and members built into the app.

A live map showing community gardens, backyard growers (opt-in), workshops, markets, food forests, and compost drop-off points—turning Calgary into a visible garden network.

Disease alerts, food handling guides, seller verification, recall notifications, and trading safety rules that keep the marketplace and food-sharing ecosystem safe and trustworthy.