EdenVatika reads yours against real horticultural thresholds and writes today's chore list from it — water, skip watering, spray, stake, cover, harvest before the rain — with the reading that triggered each one.
No weather station. No soil probes. No batteries to replace. It works on the day you sign up, from a town or postcode — because the gardener who needs telling when to water is rarely the one who has already wired up a sensor array.
Every rule that matches today's readings is scored. Near-duplicates are merged, the list is sorted, and only the top four survive to your dashboard. Twenty conditional warnings is weather noise — four ranked actions is a chore list you'll actually work through.
Today's recommendations — example
Check for fungal diseases
High humidity (78%) & warm temp — inspect leaves for spots, mildew
Harvest ripe produce now
Heavy rain coming (18mm) — pick ripe fruits before damage
Good conditions for spraying
Calm & dry morning — pesticide/fungicide will be effective
Skip watering today
Rain expected (12mm) — save water and let nature do the work
Ranked from your location's live 7-day forecast
This isn't a black box with "AI" written on the side. These are the actual conditions the app checks against your forecast, and the action each one produces.
≥ 35°C · humidity < 50% · under 2mm rain due
Water urgently — twice today, morning and evening
> 32°C · humidity < 50% · under 5mm rain due
Water today — hot and dry, plants need extra
> 28°C · within 2 hours of sunset
Water this evening — less lost to evaporation
5mm or more of rain forecast in 24h
Skip watering — save the water, let the rain do it
Wind > 25 km/h · warm · dry
Use drip today — no sprinklers, water at the base
Humidity > 75% · 22–35°C
Check for fungal disease — inspect for spots and mildew
Humidity > 65% · 25–38°C
Inspect for pests — check the undersides of leaves
Rain now, or wet and humid ground
Watch for snails and slugs — check early morning
Wind < 10 km/h · dry morning · no rain due
Good conditions for spraying — treatment will hold
Tonight's low under 8°C
Cover sensitive plants tonight — protect tender crops
UV > 7 with heat above 35°C
Provide shade — shade cloth, or move pots
Wind > 30 km/h
Protect young plants — windbreaks, seedlings indoors
Wind > 25 km/h
Stake tall plants — secure tomatoes, beans, climbers
Over 25mm of rain forecast
Shelter delicate plants — flowers and seedlings
Cloudy · 18–30°C · low wind
Perfect day for transplanting — minimal shock
Light rain due (2–15mm) · 20–35°C
Ideal for sowing — natural germination watering
Rain due (5–20mm) · not too hot · dry now
Apply fertilizer now — it will wash in properly
Over 35°C and dry
Hold off fertilizing — risk of burning roots
Sunny · humidity < 65% · dry
Good day for pruning — cuts heal fast
Wet, or heavy rain due
Avoid pruning — fresh cuts spread disease when wet
Over 15mm rain due, dry right now
Harvest ripe produce now — before it splits or rots
Dry sunny morning
Perfect harvest window — produce stores longer
Thresholds shown in °C. Watering decisions use the day's average forecast humidity rather than the current reading — dawn humidity is high even in midsummer, and using it would wrongly tell you to skip watering on a day that ends at 34°C.
Watering tasks — Bed 2
Rewritten for each planting's growth phase
Water Tomato — Germination
Every 1 dayKeep soil consistently moist; water gently to avoid disturbing seeds. Check moisture daily.
Water Tomato — Seedling
Every 2 daysMaintain even moisture as seedlings establish. Let the top 1 cm dry slightly between waterings.
Water Tomato — Growing
Every 2 daysWater deeply but less frequently. Let the top 2–3 cm dry between waterings to encourage deep roots.
Water Tomato — Harvest
Every 3 daysReduce watering as harvest approaches. Consistent but lighter moisture helps concentrate flavours.
Appended today — Pro
Weather update: Rain expected — consider skipping or reducing today's watering.
A tray of just-sown seed and a bed of tomatoes a week from picking do not want the same watering, however identical the sky is above them. EdenVatika works out the dominant growth phase of the plantings in each bed and rewrites that bed's recurring watering task around it — then lets the weather adjust from there.
Most planting calendars shift a warm-zone schedule a few weeks earlier or later and call it localisation. That works in spring — cold zones do warm up late. It breaks in autumn, because cold zones frost early, not late. Slide October back far enough and the app cheerfully tells a Zone 4 gardener to sow summer crops into a closed window.
EdenVatika works from both of your frost dates instead. It measures how far you are through your own frost-free window and maps that position onto the temperate baseline the plant database is written against.
Frost-free window by zone
Zone 3
≈ 4 months
Zone 5
≈ 5½ months
Zone 6 · baseline
≈ 6¼ months
Zone 8
≈ 8 months
Zone 9
≈ 9½ months
Approximate northern-hemisphere frost-free windows. Your position inside your own bar — not a fixed month offset — decides what the app calls plantable today.
EdenVatika measures your daylight from the sunrise and sunset times across the whole 7-day forecast, works out whether it's lengthening or shortening and by how many minutes a day, and recommends accordingly — long-day crops while the days climb, short-day varieties as they fall away.
It's the difference between "it's warm enough for spinach" and "it's warm enough for spinach, but at 15 hours of daylight it will bolt before you eat it."
Long-day crops
14h+
Lettuce, spinach, radish
Start long-day
12–14h ↑
While daylight is still climbing
Day-neutral
10–12h
Tomatoes, peppers
Short-day
Under 10h
Strawberry & chrysanthemum flowering
No account needed. These three run on the same climate reasoning as the app.
Frost Date Lookup
Last spring frost, first fall frost, season length and hardiness zone for any town.
🌡️Soil Temperature Checker
Air temperature lies. Check whether the soil is actually warm enough to sow.
💧Watering Calculator
How much water your beds actually need, by crop, bed size and conditions.
No. EdenVatika works from the day you sign up using your location's live forecast — town or postcode is enough. There is no hardware to buy, install, calibrate or keep online, and nothing to replace when a battery dies.
A live commercial forecast API, queried for your saved garden location and cached so the same forecast is reused through the day rather than re-fetched on every screen. Current conditions plus a 7-day forecast: temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind, UV, sunrise and sunset.
No — the forecast is the input, not the output. Every reading is tested against horticultural thresholds, and what you see is the resulting instruction: "skip watering today", "good morning to spray", "stake tall plants", "harvest ripe produce now". Each one states the reading that triggered it.
At most four. Every rule that matches is scored, near-duplicates are merged, and only the four highest-scoring actions are shown. A list of twenty conditional warnings is noise — four things worth doing today is a chore list.
Both. Recurring watering tasks are rewritten for the growth phase of the plants in that bed — germination waters roughly twice as often as an established crop, and the interval stretches back out as harvest approaches. On Pro, a weather note is appended when conditions are clearly wet or clearly hot and dry.
Frost is built into the planting calendar itself, not bolted on as an alert. Your zone's frost-free window drives what the app considers plantable right now, and short-term cold nights raise a cover-your-tender-plants task.
The free plan includes today's weather overview and your frost dates and hardiness zone. The 7-day forecast, the auto-created weather tasks and the watering recommendations are Pro features.
Today's weather and your frost dates are on the free plan. The 7-day forecast, the auto-created tasks and the watering recommendations come with Pro — and the trial needs no card.
No weather station required · No card for the trial · Free plan never expires
