The Plan Builder
Pick the sauce.
We reverse-engineer
the garden.
Choose a sauce, growing zone, space, and batch count. Get a dated sowing calendar, recipe-based plant count, soil volume, jar count, and a phased shopping list. Your plan and saved kit stay in this browser; a shareable link contains only the plan settings.
What are you making?
The sauce decides everything upstream of it — cultivar, calendar, acid, jar.
Where are you growing, and how much do you want?
Your zone sets the dates. Your space sets the ceiling on plants and decides whether you're buying pots and mix or amending ground you already have.
Swaps zone averages for your nearest NOAA station's 1991–2020 frost dates and sets your USDA zone. Frost dates by city →
Sets the dates when there's no ZIP, or the station has no datable frost. How this math works →
One bright south window or a shelf under lights. Two or three plants, in pots, all season.Fabric pots on a deck or balcony. Six to eight plants, full sun, hand or drip watered.A 4×8 bed or two. Twelve to sixteen plants, real root volume, drip on a timer.Open ground. Thirty-plus plants, soil you amend rather than buy, and real weed pressure.
Scales plant counts, soil, and jars together.
Overrides the zone average everywhere. Your nearest NWS station beats a zone map every time.
Your plan
Copy the link to keep it, or print it and put it on the fridge.