About myPatch
The gardener behind the app
myPatch started on an allotment in the UK. Like most growers, I kept losing track of what I'd sown, when things needed potting on, and whether it was too late to direct-sow outdoors. Notebooks got soggy, spreadsheets were forgotten, and generic gardening apps didn't understand British weather or growing seasons.
So I built the tool I wanted: something that knows the difference between March in Cornwall and March in Aberdeen, reminds me to harden off seedlings before the last frost, and keeps a record of what actually worked on my plot.
Everything published here — the monthly sowing guides, the crop library, the daily tasks — comes from growing this way, not from rewriting somebody else's advice.
How myPatch was built
myPatch runs on iOS and Android, and as a progressive web app you can install straight from the browser. Under the hood it is an Umbraco site with a custom task engine that evaluates your plantings against growing rules, the weather forecast, and the time of year. Every morning at 7am it generates a personalised list of jobs for the day ahead.
There is no AI writing your gardening advice. The recommendations come from a crop library of 240+ UK varieties with real sowing windows, spacing, depths and soil-temperature thresholds.
UK-specific by design
Weather data comes from Open-Meteo, keyed to your postcode, so frost warnings, soil temperature and rainfall forecasts are local to your garden, not a national average.
Growing rules are tuned for British conditions: last frost dates, daylight hours, and typical soil temperatures. Whether you are on a south-facing patio in London or a windswept allotment in Yorkshire, the advice adapts to where you actually grow.
Who writes the guides
I do. I am Simon Steed — an Umbraco developer by trade and a vegetable grower by habit. I write the monthly growing guides from my own plot, and I build the app that goes with them. If something in a guide did not work for me, I say so.
Try myPatch
myPatch is free to use with up to two garden beds and five active plantings. Sign in with just your email address — no password needed. Premium removes the limits for 99p a month.