Two adults · one 4 × 8 bed
- Season
- Apr 20 → Oct 20
- Goal
- Balanced
- Must grow
- Cherry tomato, basil
- Also likes
- Beans, carrots, lettuce
- Expected loss
- 20% planning buffer
Gardiv turns your frost dates, growing space, household, and crop preferences into a practical season plan—with plant counts, timing, yield ranges, and honest tradeoffs.
One useful plan connects all the questions that separate calculators usually leave apart.
Gardiv does not promise a perfect harvest. It gives you a conservative starting point, shows what does not fit, and keeps every assumption visible.
Turn household size and appetite into a useful plant-count range.
Open calculator →Work backward from your last frost—without pretending weather is exact.
Open calculator →Get cubic feet, yards, liters, and the number of bags to buy.
Open calculator →Compare a broad harvest-value range with your actual setup costs.
Open calculator →Estimate how many plants fit using grid or offset spacing.
Open calculator →Match crops to minimum volume, useful depth, and trellis needs.
Open calculator →Crop ranges trace to extension and trial sources. Value assumptions are editable. Your plan stays in your browser, and no chatbot invents the answer.
Weather, soil, cultivar, pests, and care can move a harvest dramatically.
Impossible requests are explained rather than compressed into fantasy.
Household details, crop choices, and plans are not sent to a Gardiv server.