Your garden, day by day
Orto tells you what to do in your vegetable garden every day: what to sow and when to water, feed and harvest, with advice adapted to your local weather.
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What Orto does
Daily plan
An action plan for each plant: watering, feeding, checks and harvest, with reminders.
434-plant catalogue
Vegetables, herbs and fruit with sowing calendar, companion planting and rotations.
Weather that matters
Weather alerts from Open-Meteo and the weather of the past days (such as rain) that adapts suggestions.
Photo diagnosis
Take or choose a photo: AI identifies the plant and checks its health. It's guidance, not a certain diagnosis.
Garden assistant
Ask questions about your garden and get answers based on your plants and the weather.
Gardens and beds
Organise several gardens and beds, track tasks and past seasons.
Moon calendar
Traditional farming guidance, for those who follow it.
Community and board
Share photos and tips, and sell or give away seedlings, seeds and tools on the board.
From the catalogue
A few of the 434 plants inside Orto
Guides
Planting calendar
How to read a planting calendar, why it depends on your area and weather, and Orto's seasonal guides.
Companion planting
What companion planting is, which effects are documented, and how to use it sensibly.
Pests & diseases
How to prevent and recognise common vegetable garden diseases, starting with tomato late blight.
Container garden
How to grow vegetables in pots on a balcony: containers, compost, water and sun.
Watering
How to water efficiently: depth, timing, rainfall and drip irrigation.
- What to sow and plant in the vegetable garden in November?
- How and when to plant garlic?
- How do you grow a winter vegetable garden?
- When to sow peas and broad beans?
- How to start seeds indoors in January and February?
- Which vegetables grow well together? The best-known companions
- How to start a balcony vegetable garden?
- How to recognise and prevent tomato late blight?
- How to set up drip irrigation in the vegetable garden?
Orto Pro
The catalogue, levels, badges, moon phases, Community and board are free. Orto Pro, an auto-renewing App Store subscription, adds unlimited crops in the planner, more gardens and beds, weather alerts, automatic rotations, past-season archive and more AI analyses and questions. After onboarding you can try Pro features for 3 days even without subscribing.