Outdoor-only by design

The easy version of this is: "I just like outdoor gardens." The real version is more interesting, and it shapes almost every decision in the app.

Outdoor gardens share a single coherent design substrate. Climate zone, frost dates, weather, season. Every feature in SowSage keys off those:

• The task engine knows it's almost the last frost in your zone, so it stops nudging you to harden off tomatoes.
• The look-ahead pulls "order seeds" six weeks before the recommended sow date for your latitude.
• The journal stamps each entry with the conditions the plant actually lived through.
• The care content tells you when to mulch fruit trees relative to your dormancy, not an average from a book.

Houseplants live in different physics. A pothos in a north-facing apartment has artificial light cycles, no frost, no rain, no real seasons, and a climate that's whatever the thermostat says. The same task engine that's a knowledgeable friend to your raised beds would be a confused stranger in your succulent collection — guessing at watering, ignoring conditions that don't apply, and missing the ones that do.

You could ship two apps in one with shared chrome. Most apps in this category do, and you can feel it. The "tomato in zone 7" parts are mediocre because the same UI also has to serve "fern next to the radiator." Both halves end up generic.

So we said no.

Outdoor flowers and food, both annual cycles and the slow multi-year rhythm of fruit trees and shrubs — that's the entire box. Inside that box, every feature pulls harder. The task engine actually knows what it's doing. The look-ahead actually predicts. The journal actually correlates.

If you garden outside, this should feel built for you. If you garden inside, you should be using a houseplant app — and you should expect a houseplant app to be bad at outdoor gardens, by the same logic.

Saying no to houseplants is not a limitation. It's what makes the rest of the app possible.