Made for Australian & New Zealand gardens

A garden plan sized to your household.

A practical garden planner that sizes what to grow to your household, fits it to the space you have, and tells you when to start.

Plan my patch — free Have a nosy at a finished plan

Free spring beta About five minutes No card No email required Saves on your device

Actual Patch Partner plan overview showing crop quantities, space allocation and first planting actions — **A real plan created by The Patch Partner**Open four sections and read them properly.

One useful answer, not twelve disconnected lists.

How much to plant Where it can fit When to get started

How it works

Your patch, figured out.

No perfect garden required. A few honest answers are enough to turn whatever you’ve got into a proper starting plan.

A garden fork lifting dark soil beside a freshly uncovered potato — **The plan is tidy. Your garden doesn’t have to be.**From my own very real winter potato harvest.

Show us the space

Add your raised beds, in-ground patch, pots—or that sunny strip you keep meaning to do something with.

Tell us what gets eaten

Choose the vegetables your household genuinely likes. Quietly leave out the worthy kale nobody is going to eat.

Get the joined-up plan

See how much to plant for your household, where each crop could go, what you’ll need, and when to sow or raise it.

The useful bit

A plan you can take outside.

This isn’t a generic planting calendar with your name added. It works the amounts and the timing around your household, your space and your corner of Australia or New Zealand. That’s the whole point.

Actual Patch Partner plan table showing crops, plant quantities, garden squares, bed allocation and first actions — Actual plan · 01
How much to plant
How much to plant for your table, the space each crop needs, and the first job for every crop.

Actual Patch Partner bed plan showing crops assigned to the Strawberry Bed and Chicken Bed with dates and catch crops — Actual plan · 02
Your beds, planted
Every crop given a home, with peak use, spare space and sensible catch crops.

Actual Patch Partner 12-month season timeline showing succession crops across four garden beds — Actual plan · 03
The whole year at a glance
See when each crop occupies a bed and what moves into the space after it clears.

Real plan, deliberately cropped. These are quick glimpses from a Patch Partner plan.

What’s coming for founding gardeners

Free to start. Paid when you want the whole season.

The starter plan isn’t quietly disappearing behind a paywall later. How much to plant, your first sowing actions, a shopping list and a basic bed layout stay free—forever.

I’m also building an optional paid layer for gardeners who want the whole season joined up. Not a big software launch; just the next useful bit, still shaped by real gardeners. Add your email for one heads-up when it opens.

Free, for good

Enough to get your patch started properly.

How much to plant, sized to your household
The first sowing action for every crop
A practical shopping list
Your basic bed layout

Optional · coming later this spring

For gardeners who want the whole year mapped out.

A succession timeline showing what moves into each bed as it clears
The complete 12-month sow, plant and harvest rollout
Weekly sow-and-feed emails, landing about two weeks before each job
A saved plan you can edit anytime, from any device

NZ$39/yearFounding gardener rate, locked in for life. The standard rate will be NZ$59/year when it opens later this spring.

Add your email and I’ll let you know when the founding rate opens.

No spam and no dramatic launch sequence. Just one heads-up.

Why I made it

It began with an ambitious seed list and a spreadsheet.

I could find plenty telling me when to sow. Nothing joined that up with how much our family might actually eat, whether it would all fit, or what could use the space next.

The Patch Partner is my attempt to bring those decisions together. It’s an early, slightly muddy beta being shaped with real gardeners—which is why honest feedback is so useful now.

“I wanted something a bit cleverer than my Saturday-morning combination of seed packets, browser tabs and optimism.”

— from the notebook that started this.

A few useful answers

Before you dig in.

What’s in the plan?

You’ll get how-much-to-plant amounts for your household, a bed-by-bed layout, a 12-month timeline, succession suggestions, a shopping list, and a preview of the sowing reminders.

Will it always be free?

The “how much to plant” calculator, first sowing actions, shopping list and basic layout stay free forever. Season-long features—succession planning, weekly reminders and a saved, editable plan—will become an optional founding-gardener plan later this spring.

How does it handle Australian and New Zealand seasons?

Your location shapes the timing. The Patch Partner is built for Australian and New Zealand growing conditions rather than flipping dates from a Northern Hemisphere calendar.

Can I include pots and odd little spaces?

Yes. Add raised beds, in-ground beds, pots and useful corners, along with their size and sun. The plan works with the patch you have.

Do I need exact garden measurements?

Rough measurements are useful, but you don’t need surveyor-level accuracy. A tape measure, a few minutes outside and your best estimate will do.

Keep your hands clean for five minutes.

Then take the plan outside and get them properly muddy. Honest feedback is very welcome while the founding beta is being shaped.

Plan my patch — free