Folia helps you keep your gardening life organised.
We've got lots of features to let you concentrate on the fun bits of gardening - here are just a few we have:
Our basic account is completely free. Advanced features and more goodies are available in our Supporter account. Want to read the buzz about us?
Your gardening dashboard gives you an overview of what is being sown and harvested in your area, your weather forecast, your tasks and a quick view of your growing timeline.
Supporter accounts include: Unlimited timelines and who is planting what in your local area.
Your gardening journal lets you write about and link to as many of your plantings and gardens as you like, as well as logging growing observations & happiness levels about individual plantings.
Your local weather is automatically imported into each journal entry, so you can keep a record of weather conditions at the same time.
Get your shoebox of seeds organized so you know what you have available to plant this year.
Link directly to your photos on flickr, picasa, blogger or photobucket. Record where and when you purchased, link to plantings you've grown, archive seeds you've spent, and mark seeds as "available for swap" to let people know you're interested in swapping.
Supporter accounts include: Filtering and sorting your lists alphabetically, by lifecycle or genus. Exporting your stash list to save a copy in your favourite spreadsheet program.
Create lists of plants and seeds you'd like to grow, and let the swap matcher find you some swap partners!
Look through other gardeners lists to see what they would like in return.
Supporter accounts include: Download and print your list for easy offline reference
Create lists of gardening chores and link them to your plants and gardens.
Set recurring tasks, if you need to remember to do them on a regular basis.
Supporter accounts include: Easy exporting to iCal and other calendar programs, print outs for offline reference in the garden.
Supporter accounts include: Unlimited growing timelines that show the events in your planting's life, as well as your first and last frost dates for reference.
Want to see more? We've got lots of features!
Organise your own plants in as many gardens as you like.
Catalogue your seeds and cuttings to prepare for the next years gardening.
Document individual plantings not just the types of plants in your garden.
Log important events in your planting's life.
Track your harvests with both exact weight and estimate measurements.
Your gardening journal can be cross referenced to all your plantings and gardens.
Link to your existing flickr, blogger and picasa photos so you don't have to keep uploading the same photos over and over again.
An automatic day counter helps you to see if your planting is on track.
Find gardeners around the world in the same climate zones as you!
Check out our maps to see else where in the world your plant is growing.
Discover who's is growing the exact same plant as you and follow their progress!
Take a look at the most popular plants on Folia everywhere, by USDA zone, and by country.
Ask a question, or help other gardeners with their questions.
Join or start a group about any gardening topic under the sun.
Participate in our Plant Wiki and fill in facts and figures about the plants to help others.
See in real time who is seed swapping with who!
Track your sproutings, harvests and blooms on your own timeline.
Want even more?
We love listening to our users and adding the new features they suggest. So, if there's something you would like our site to do then we want to hear about it!
The Folia Supporter Account
We run this site completely without funding (and around our jobs!) and as a consequence our costs are tight. Instead of plastering the site full of advertising, we've created special advanced features around the site that we reserve for people who help us pay for the costs of keeping the site up-and-running.
The cost of our Supporter account depends on how much you think we are worth - you get to choose the amount you wish to pay, from $16 US.
It is completely optional and you can upgrade whenever you like. No pressure at all.
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