Your planting calendar, built from your zone and your beds.
Fifteen templates for home gardeners, market gardeners, and small growers. You fill in the zone, the beds, the hours you actually have, and what went wrong last year. Your AI writes the calendar, the diagnosis, or the box email in the order you will use it. About three minutes, start to finish.
Works with ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini · whichever AI is already on the phone you carry out to the beds
from your zone and beds
free to start, no card
If you typed one of these with dirt still on your hands, this is the page.
- vegetable garden planting calendar for zone 6Seasonal Garden Calendar
- tomato leaves turning yellow with brown spots, what is itPest & Disease Troubleshooter
- what to write in a CSA newsletter every weekCSA Weekly Box Newsletter
- how to plan raised beds for a first vegetable gardenVegetable Garden Planner
- how to fix heavy clay soil and start compostingComposting & Soil Plan
- what to plant for monarchs and bees in my zonePollinator & Native Garden Plan
- how to grow tomatoes in a raised bed and what to plant next to themPlant Growth Guide
- how much to water a garden under drought restrictionsWatering & Irrigation Plan
- garden journal that turns this season into next year's planGarden Journal & Grow Log
Nine of fifteen. Calendars, bed plans, soil and compost, pests and disease, watering, pollinators, lawn, hardscape, containers, and the CSA box email.
Your zone and your beds go in. The calendar comes out.
Made the way you would make them: a real zone, real beds, real spots on the leaves, run once on the AI, not edited. The farm and the people are invented. The season plan is not.
A January-to-December calendar for four raised beds in Zone 6
Honest Year Read
In a Zone 6 garden you have roughly 130 growing days (May 5 to Oct 15). Four 4x8 raised beds give excellent drainage and early soil warming; the 10x12 in-ground patch will stay cool longer, especially with heavy clay. With a few weekend hours plus 15 min evenings you can get a solid harvest of tomatoes, beans, and quick greens every week, produce about 20 qt of sauce (about 150 lb fresh tomatoes), and keep deer and rabbits out with low-tech barriers. Expect 2 to 3 weeks of intensive plant-in work in May, then a steady weekly rhythm of watering, scouting, and quick harvests.
May & June
| Date | Task | Time |
|---|---|---|
| May 5 ± 3 days | Last frost. Plant out tomatoes, peppers, basil in raised beds; space 18 to 24 in apart, stake or cage now. | Weekend |
| May 7 to 15 | Direct sow beans and squash. Hill zucchini in raised beds (avoid the clay patch). Floating row cover for the first 10 days to deter vine borer adults. | Weekend |
| May 15 to 25 | First weeding pass before anything sets seed; mulch edges afterward. | 30 min eve |
| June 15 to 30 | Pest watch. Walk beds nightly 15 min: rabbit bite marks, squash vines for borer entry holes; hand-pick eggs and larvae. | Evening |
Match the Time
- Evenings (15 min): scan beds for pests, water spot-check, update the garden journal. If time allows, trim tomato vines and hand-pick borer larvae.
- Weekend 2 to 3 hrs: soil amendment, planting out, irrigation set-up, major weeding.
- If short on time, drop: the second round of beans and extra mulch layering. Focus on tomatoes and squash for the sauce goal.
- If generous, add: cover crops in the in-ground patch after harvest, a small cold frame for early greens.
Plus the other five two-month blocks (seed orders and tool checks in January, indoor starts and the clay-patch prep in March, garlic and leaf mulch in fall), the build-on-where-you-are list, and the organic notes: row cover, thresholds, and a dill and alyssum border. Ten sections, January to December.
Six Roma tomatoes with yellowing lower leaves and target-ring spots, organic only
Most Likely Cause
Target-ring brown spots that start on the lower leaves, yellowing and early leaf drop: early blight (Alternaria solani). Warm, humid midsummer conditions in Zone 6 plus a recent 4-day rain event create leaf wetness that favors spore germination. Crowded plants (18 in spacing) reduce air flow, keeping foliage damp longer; straw mulch can hold moisture at the soil line, encouraging splash-borne spread from the ground up.
Other plausible culprits, ranked
- Septoria leaf spot. Also brown lesions with rings, but usually smaller, more numerous, and without the strong yellowing of lower leaves.
- Bacterial speck or spot. Dark water-soaked spots, often with a greasy sheen; lesions more irregular and lacking the concentric rings.
Confirm It
Flip several affected leaves. Early blight rarely shows many tiny black specks on the underside; Septoria will show dense clusters of black pycnidia. Do this in daylight when lesions are fully expressed. If you see the concentric rings, tan halo, and a lack of abundant pycnidia, you can be fairly certain it is early blight.
Build on What You Tried
Pruning: spot-on; it reduces inoculum and improves airflow. Keep doing it, but remove any leaf with a lesion, not just the edges. Neem oil: good for early prevention, but a single application is insufficient against an active outbreak, and neem can burn leaves applied in hot sun, which may have stressed the fast-declining plant. Reapply only under cooler conditions.
Plus the 24-to-48-hour fix (sanitation, thinning to 24 in, a protectant spray schedule), the wait-or-act table for each cause, next year's prevention (spacing, mulch choice, a 3-year rotation off tomatoes, resistant varieties), when the plant is lost, spread risk to neighbors, and when to call the county Extension office.
Week 4's box email for a 20-week CSA, first carrots of the year
Subject line options
- Fresh carrots debut + garlic scapes you've never tried
- First-of-the-season carrots + a surprise from the garden
- New greens, new roots: carrots, chard & garlic "pasta"
Opening
Hey friends, week 4 of our 20-week run is here, and it feels like a turning point. The rain finally broke the heat, and we pulled our very first carrots out of the ground. That crisp bite you've been waiting for? It's in your box today.
How to use it
Garlic scapes: rinse, trim the tough ends, slice thin. Toss with olive oil and a pinch of salt, roast on a hot sheet pan 8 to 10 min until caramelized and slightly crisp. Chard and beet tops: these wilt quickly. Wrap the stems in a damp paper towel, then the whole bunch in a zip-top bag in the crisper. Use within 2 days; saute with garlic and a splash of lemon, or add to a quick stir-fry with the snap peas.
Member notes
Action needed: drop off last week's wax box when you pick up your share Thursday, 3 to 7 pm at the Miller Road stand. If you need a vacation hold for next week, get the form in by Sunday night. We're grateful for every return trip; your boxes keep our system moving.
Plus the preview text, the scannable box list with quantities, the From the Field note (the April 2 seeding, the two hand-thinnings, the bolted spinach told straight), and a sign-off from the farm. Under 450 words, built to read on a phone.
Three steps. Quicker than reading the back of the seed packet.
Pick the job
The zone calendar, the bed plan, the yellowing leaves, the clay patch, the drought schedule, this week's box email. Search it the way you would say it over the fence.
Fill in the facts
Eight or nine blanks: your USDA zone, your last frost, how many beds and what size, the hours you really have, what you saw on the leaves, what you already sprayed. Chips for the common answers, your own words for the rest.
Send it to your AI
Ultra Prompt builds the expert prompt and hands it to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. The plan comes back in the order you will work it: January seed orders through October garlic, or bed by bed.
Templates handle the plan. An agent handles the season.
The same facts you type into a template can live inside an AI agent that knows your zone, your beds, your frost dates, and what failed last year, so the next calendar, the next diagnosis, and the next box email start from your garden instead of from a blank chat. Three agents a grower actually uses:
The Garden Journal That Talks Back
Carries your zone, your bed map, your varieties, and this year's frost dates. Tell it what you planted and what you saw; it keeps the log, flags the succession window you are about to miss, and drafts next year's rotation.
Runs in Claude Projects, a Custom GPT, or a local modelThe Scout
Knows your organic-only rule, what you have already sprayed, and which beds share a plant family. Describe the spots; it narrows the cause, tells you what to flip a leaf and look for, and says plainly when the label is the law.
Runs in your phone, through the AI you already useThe CSA Desk
Holds your farm's voice, your pickup rules, your practices, and the season's week count. Paste the harvest list; it drafts the box email, the farmstand sign, and the hold-form reminder.
Runs in Gemini, ChatGPT, or ClaudeFern, the garden and yard manager, is in testing now.
Fern is built and running the certification battery. When Fern clears it, this door opens here. Until then, the showroom's live agents are open to everyone.
See the showroomBuild the one that knows your beds.
Agent Studio is in every Pro and Business seat. Give it your zone, your last and first frost, the bed map, the varieties you grow, and your no-spray rule. Then, all season, you paste in what you planted and what you saw on the leaves, and it hands back the succession window you are about to miss, the likely cause of the spots, and a line for the journal. Export it to Claude Projects, a Custom GPT, Gemini Gems, Copilot, or a local model. It runs on the AI you already have, on the phone you carry to the beds. Nothing to host.
Open Agent StudioOr have it built around your farm.
Want it built for you? A custom build is one conversation about what you do every week, then an agent brief written for you, exported to your AI, with a walkthrough. From $450, one time.
Ask about a custom buildFiles are yours to keep. The library, updates, and support ride the subscription.
One price. The whole library.
Unlimited generates, all 15 gardening templates and the rest of the 1,000+ library (cooking, home projects, side businesses, the lot), plus Agent Studio. Works with the free tier of your own AI or its paid one.
Start with ProFree to start: 10 finished prompts a month, no card. Cancel anytime.
Build an agent that knows your zone, your beds, and your rules, then export it to Claude Projects, a Custom GPT, Gemini Gems, Copilot, or a local model. Your garden's memory, on your own account.
See Agent StudioThe questions gardeners ask before they order seed.
Do I need ChatGPT or Claude to use this?
Yes, one of them, and the free tier of any of them works. Ultra Prompt builds the prompt and sends you there with it. You never paste anything by hand unless you want to.
Does it know my zone and my frost dates?
It knows what you tell it. You pick the USDA zone and type your beds, your last frost, and your hours; the calendar is built from those, not from a generic Midwest year.
Will it tell me what to spray?
It will name the likely cause and organic or conventional options at your preference, and it says when to confirm before treating. The label is the law: rates, timing, and what a product may be used on come from the product label and your state, not from the AI.
How is this different from just asking ChatGPT?
You can ask ChatGPT for a garden calendar and get a generic one. These templates ask for what a grower would ask: your zone, what failed last year, the hours you really have, what you already sprayed. The difference is what they make you say.
I run a small CSA or a farmstand. Is this for me?
Yes. The box newsletter template is written from a market-gardener's chair for members who already trust you, and the calendar, soil, pest, and watering templates scale from four beds to a few acres. It is a Personal Pro plan, $5 a month, one account.
What does the free tier give me?
Ten finished prompts a month, no card. Pro is $5 a month for unlimited generates, the full library, and Agent Studio. Cancel anytime.