How it came together
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The itch
We wanted one honest place to time plantings by the moon and remember what actually worked in our garden — without ads, logins, or someone selling the data back to us.
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The app
So we built it: a free, ad-free, private Android app with a live lunar calendar, a plant guide, and a journal that auto-tags every entry with its moon phase.
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The garden grew
Companion planting, soil pH, crop rotation, composting, foraging, and survival-nutrition guides followed — the tools a garden actually needs across a season, not just a pretty calendar.
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The website
This site opened the same thinking to the web: a Learn library, a community feed, a blog, and interactive tools you can use right in the browser — free, no account required to read.
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Where it’s heading
More power tools, cloud sync so your journal follows you from phone to web, and — down the road — an iPhone version. Built slowly, by hand, and kept honest.
Why we built it
Moon Phase Garden started with a simple frustration: every gardening app seemed to want something from you. Your email, your location, your attention, a subscription before you'd even planted a seed — and a wall of ads in between. We wanted the opposite. A tool that respects the person holding the phone, works even when the signal doesn't, and treats the oldest gardening wisdom — planting in rhythm with the moon — with both curiosity and honesty.
So we built it ourselves, one release at a time. It's the work of I am Geek, a small technology shop, made in the evenings and weekends between real gardens and real life.
What we believe
- Free and ad-free, for real. The core app costs nothing and shows no ads. Ever. When there's a paid tier, it will be for genuine power features — never to unlock what should be free.
- Private by default. No real names, no precise location, no IP logging, no tracking SDKs. Your garden is yours. Anything that syncs is opt-in.
- Honest about the moon. We treat moon-phase gardening as a tradition and a planning rhythm, not a magic guarantee — and we pair it with weather, your zone, and your own journal so you can judge for yourself.
- Safety first, always. Where the stakes are real — foraging, medicinal plants — we warn clearly and never hide the dangerous look-alikes.
Where it's going
The app grows steadily: from moon-timed planting and a 94-plant guide, into foraging and nutrition, and toward a full "plan your garden" toolkit — companion planting, crop rotation, soil, and more. This website grows alongside it, so the knowledge inside the app is open to everyone on the web, too.