FAQ

The app automatically detects your location and calculates sowing dates based on your local climate, frost dates and growing season. UK gardeners get dates tailored to their specific area, while USA gardeners get dates based on their USDA hardiness zone (3–10).

The Grow Calendar shows you exactly what to sow each month — indoors and outdoors — based on your location. It covers 84 fruit and vegetables and shows growing times so you can plan your harvest in advance. Browse by month or search for a specific crop.

The Cook section shows recipes organised by what's in season right now. You can browse by vegetable to find recipes for whatever you've just harvested, or explore collections like Harvest Overload (for a glut of one veg), Hero Ingredient, Rainbow Plate, and Around the World.

The Harvest Forecast shows you what crops are coming up for harvest in the weeks ahead, so you can plan your meals and shopping around what your garden is about to produce.

The app calculates your first and last frost dates based on your location. You'll receive alerts when frost is forecast so you can take action to protect your plants — bring them in, cover them or harvest early.

Each of the 84 vegetables in the app includes a companion planting guide showing which plants grow well nearby and which to keep apart. This helps you plan your beds for maximum yield and natural pest control.

The Freezer Tracker lets you log what you've frozen from your harvest, along with the date frozen and best-before information. It helps you keep track of your frozen produce so nothing goes to waste.

The Journal lets you document your growing journey with photos, notes and dates. The Garden Timeline shows your entire growing history season by season so you can look back and see how far you've come.

The Budget Tracker (called Expense Tracker in the app) lets you log your garden spending — seeds, compost, tools and more — and compares it against the value of your harvest so you can see the true value of growing your own food.

Yes — the app is free to download and you can use the core features at no cost. Two optional plans unlock more: Harvest (£29.99/year or £4.99/month) opens up the full growing toolkit — unlimited plants, 200+ recipes, frost alerts, freezer tracker and more. Bumper Harvest (£39.99/year or £6.99/month) adds the Garden Planner, a daily personal briefing, the Head Chef's 5,000+ recipe library and your own Head Gardener to ask. Both come with a 7-day free trial.

Harvest is the full growing toolkit: unlimited plants to sow and grow, 200+ recipes, companion planting with every variety, frost dates, harvest forecast, freezer tracker, expenses and analytics. Bumper Harvest includes all of that and adds the clever stuff: the Garden Planner (lay out your beds, plots, polytunnels and greenhouses with multi-year planning and rotation warnings), a daily personal briefing built around your actual garden, the Head Chef's 5,000+ recipe library with 25 fresh picks a day, and 100 Ask-the-Head-Gardener chats a month.

Yes! GrowMore CookMore is available on both iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android — get it on Google Play.

The app currently supports UK gardeners and USA gardeners (USDA zones 3–10). If you're in another country the app will still work but growing dates may not be perfectly accurate for your specific region.

The app is updated regularly with new vegetables, new recipes, bug fixes and new features. Updates are free for all users. Harvest and Bumper Harvest subscribers get every new feature for their tier as it's added.

You can cancel at any time. On iPhone: Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions → GrowMore CookMore → Cancel Subscription. On Android: Play Store → your profile → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions. You'll keep Premium access until the end of your current billing period.

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We love hearing from users! Email your suggestion to contact@growmorecookmore.com. Many of the app's current features came directly from user feedback, so please do get in touch.