Most feeding guides start by asking where you live. This one asks what you can see.

Pick a crop, then tell it what the plant is actually doing right now. Just planted. Growing fast, no flowers yet. The first flower has opened. That is more accurate than any hardiness zone, because it reflects your soil, your microclimate and this year's weather rather than a thirty-year average. It also means the tool works anywhere on earth.

WHAT'S INSIDE

🌱 72 crops, each mapped to one of six feeder classes, with the single thing that most often goes wrong for that specific plant.

🧭 Six feeder classes across four growth stages. 72 crops over 12 months is 864 things to remember, which is why nobody remembers them. Six patterns across four stages is 24. Learn those and you can feed a crop that is not even on the list.

🏺 16 homemade fertilizers with full recipes and honest notes, including which ones do not work as well as the internet claims.

🛒 11 bought amendments with rates scaled to your beds, in metric or imperial.

⛔ Twelve rules for what not to do. Wood ash on potatoes. Nitrogen on garlic once it starts bulbing. Epsom salt for blossom end rot, which makes it worse rather than better. Knowing what to feed is the easy half.

BUILT TO BE HONEST ABOUT ITS LIMITS

This edition tells you what to feed at each stage. It does not tell you when, because that depends on where you garden. If you grow in the Pacific Northwest, the PNW Organic Feeding Calendar adds a full month-by-month schedule for Zone 8b–9a.

Free, no subscription. Works on any phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.