Growstuff is a community of food gardeners. Growstuff's open source and open data platform can predict when your plantings will be ready to harvest. The more you tell it, the better the predictions.
So far, 2164 members have planted 910 crops 4554 times in 17319 gardens.
Some of our crops

wild mint
Mentha arvensis

radicchio
Cichorium intybus

fiddlehead
Pteridium aquilinum

sorrel
Rumex acetosa

currant tomato
Solanum pimpinellifolium

garlic
Allium sativum

dog rose
Rosa canina

brussels sprouts
Brassica oleracea

peach
Prunus persica

water caltrop
Trapa natans

guava
Psidium spp.

walnut
Juglans spp.

hops
Humulus lupulus

chervil
Anthriscus cerefolium

mandarin
Citrus reticulata

garlic chives
Allium tuberosum
Recently Added
Golden Beet, dragon fruit, russet burbank potato, dekopon, Mexican Tea, Culantro, bonnie bell sweet pepper sfg, Van Zerden Garlic, Bonnie Little Bing Compact Cherry Tomato, hops, common hop, Bonnie Green Okra Heirloom Clemson Spineless, Bonnie Little Sicily Slicing Tomato SFG, Phureja, Pink Oyster Mushroom, sweetcorn, dragon tongue bean, long purple eggplant, sweet pepper etiuda, corn popping mini black, parsley Dalmatian, carrot Juwarot, parsnip Avon resister, carrot Akaroa, Haskap, red Brussels sprouts, sprouting broccoli summer purple, kale Vate's blue curled, kalette, Capsicum annuum Corno di Toro Rosso
Recently Planted
echinacea
seedlings planted by shiny
capsicum
planted by cas3y
broccoli
seeds planted by Bridge4
fava bean
seeds planted by Permaculteur
cherry tomato
seedlings planted by therobotcarlson
wild bergamot
seeds planted by StormRecently Harvested
scots potato
harvested by shiny
pepper
harvested by bigblen
cayenne pepper
harvested by Batchelor
cherry tomato
harvested by midiprincess
grapefruit
harvested by CloCkWeRX
potato
harvested by miestasmagnus
Seeds available to trade

coriander
seeds saved by Storm
Portland, Oregon
Recent posts
can"t request new crops
by corvi,
When I try to request new crops (https://www.growstuff.org/crops/new), I get a message that says, "We're sorry, but something went wrong." I have successfully requested new crops in the past. My apologies if you get spammed with multiple copies of crop requests, I tried a few times.
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Local Seeds
by localseedsau,
Hi all, Daniel here. I’m a backyard gardener based in Melbourne, Australia. I started growing veggies in 2016 and since then became passionate about permaculture and all things sustainability. I've been working on a marketplace for local seed savers in Australia called [Local Seeds](https://ww...
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Weird lifespan
by Lemony,
What's up with the statistics on this plant - Median Lifespan 23 days?? It's saying my plants should have finished weeks ago when they're not even ready for harvest yet
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harvesting the bigger kūmara
by shiny,
We've just harvested the [kūmara](crop). It needs a warm summer, and this was the first summer we've grown it in a raised garden bed instead of a bag. At first, I thought it was a failure. I poked around the roots and found nothing. We pull out the greenery, and there was only a half dozen sma...
kūmara
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Keeping the bugs away with coffee
by shiny,
Ants, slugs, and snails don't much like coffee. But worms do like it. If, like me, you have an abundance of coffee grounds from staying home, you can sprinkle the [coffee](crop) around the vege to deter these creatures. It also fertilizes the plants and disappears into the soil after a few weeks.
coffee
Read morepandemic baking - use for those eggshells
by shiny,
There's so much baking going on here, stuck at home under the nationwide pandemic lockdown -- and when we can get eggs we end up with many eggshells. These can be crushed and placed around the base of brassica like [cabbage](crop) and [broccoli](crop). Snails and slugs don't like slithering over ...