Burbtopia is built around the two things every gardener actually needs: knowing what to do next, and remembering what happened last time. Planner turns your zone, your frost dates, and your goals into a schedule so you’re not guessing what to plant or tend today. Journal turns a few spoken words into a record you’ll actually use again — what worked, what didn’t, what’s still uncertain. Whether you’re tending a few containers on a balcony or trying to make a half-acre pay for itself, it’s built to hold what you already know so you don’t have to hold it all yourself.
Ready to see it in your own garden? Open Burbtopia and get started.
Journal
- Free-form written journal entries
- Phone voice-to-text entry
- Original entry preserved exactly as written
- Photos and videos attached to entries
- Search across all journal entries
- Filter by date, plant, garden area, activity, experiment, or season
- AI organization and categorization
- Plants, crops, varieties, and garden areas identified from the text
- Activities identified, including planting, moving, watering, fertilizing, treating, harvesting, cutting, and selling
- Products, tools, quantities, costs, and labor time extracted
- Results recorded: worked, failed, uncertain, or still being observed
- Difficulty and physical effort recorded
- Feelings and enjoyment recorded
- “Would I do this again?” recorded
- “Would I hire someone next time?” recorded
- Notes connected to current plants, future plants, plans, and seasons
- Plant and garden-area history
- Harvest records
- Sales records
- Receipt photographs and expense extraction
- Supply and material records
- Personal labor tracking
- Experiment creation from a journal entry
- Experiment observations and results
- Suggested follow-up questions
- “Remind me to check this again” option
- Journal follow-ups automatically added to Planner
- Ask the journal questions in natural language
- AI summaries of lessons and patterns
- Links from AI answers back to the original entries
- Export or download the journal and records
- Unsaved-entry protection
- Automatic draft saving
- Optional AI processing with privacy controls
Planner
- “What can I plant today?”
- “What do I need to do now?”
- Automatic use of the current date
- Location-based recommendations
- Estimated USDA hardiness zone
- Estimated first and last frost dates
- User corrections to estimated growing information
- Weather-aware planning
- Growing environment support: ground, raised bed, container, greenhouse, hoop house, cold frame, and indoors
- Seed, starter plant, bulb, bare-root, cutting, division, tree, and shrub support
- Vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, cut flowers, natives, trees, shrubs, grasses, houseplants, seeds, and potted plants
- Native-plant preference
- Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced guidance modes
- Suggested plants rather than blank forms
- Guided plant-adding flow
- Active garden inventory
- Garden areas and plant locations
- Plant movement between areas
- Automatic planting schedule
- Seed-starting dates
- Direct-sowing dates
- Transplanting and hardening-off dates
- Soil-preparation reminders
- Watering, feeding, pruning, treatment, and maintenance reminders
- Harvest and cutting windows
- Succession-planting schedules
- Seed-saving schedules
- Seasonal and garden-center reminders
- Journal-created follow-ups
- Experiment check-ins
- Today, this week, season, and yearly views
- Spring, summer, fall, winter, and next-year planning
- Draft plans that do not immediately change the active garden
- Supply recommendations based on goals
- Quantities needed for planned growing
- Owned, needed, optional, reusable, and consumable supply lists
- Supply purchasing deadlines
- Estimated and actual costs
- Budget planning
- Crop, plant, bouquet, seed, and potted-plant cost tracking
- Harvest quantity and yield tracking
- Sales and pricing records
- Profit and loss estimates
- Suggested prices needed to cover costs
- Labor-time and physical-effort considerations
- Google Calendar synchronization
- Phone and in-app notifications
- Editable automatic schedules
- Completed, skipped, postponed, and recurring tasks
- Unsaved-plan protection and automatic drafts
None of this is about doing more — it’s about not losing what you already know. A season moves fast, and most of what you learn along the way disappears with it unless something’s quietly holding onto it for you. That’s what Burbtopia does in the background, so next season starts a little smarter than the last one.