Photos

A garden is a visual thing. Photos let you record what a pest looks like, prove a bumper-crop harvest, track a bed before and after, or follow a seedling week by week. You can attach photos to four kinds of records: observations, harvests, assets (beds and containers), and plantings.

Adding a photo

You add photos from the record itself:

• Observations and harvests: expand the card in the list, then use Add photo.
• Assets: the bed card shows an add-photo button.
• Plantings: open the planting’s detail page and use the Photos section.

On a phone you get two choices, Add photo (pick from your library) and Camera (take one right now). On a computer you get the file picker. You can select several photos at once; they upload one after another.

Only owners and companions can add or remove photos. Observers can see them.

Viewing photos

Photos show as a row of thumbnails on the record. Tap one to open it full screen. From there you can swipe or use the arrow keys to move between photos, and press Escape or tap outside to close. On a planting, the strip is ordered oldest to newest, so it reads as a growth timeline.

Captions and deleting

In the full-screen view, owners and companions can add or edit a caption, or delete the photo. Deleting removes both the picture and its record; it can’t be undone.

What happens to your photo

Photos are resized and re-encoded in your browser before they upload, so they stay small and load fast. That re-encoding also strips the embedded metadata, including any GPS location your camera saved, so a photo never carries your location into the app. Photos are stored privately and are only visible to members of that garden.

Photos are free on every plan.

Tips

• iPhone photos (HEIC) upload fine from Safari. If a photo won’t load from a desktop browser, save it as a JPEG or PNG first.
• Caption a pest or disease photo with what you saw and when, so it’s useful to look back on next season.