Mary Anne: Use the "Healing Garden" Android app to discover traditional medicinal uses of tropical plants, and to know if the plants in your garden can be used as natural remedies for common ailments.
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The best gardening apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows for the new generation of gardeners!
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The "Garden Colorado" app is now available on Kindles and many Android tablets and includes all of the same content as the iPad app. What you'll find: month-by-month to-do lists from Grow and Home contributor Betty Cahill; a whole section of gardening and yard-maintaining basics, such as understanding soil amendments and microclimates; and an overflowing bushel basket of features on growing vegetables, berries, tomatoes, herbs and other edibles; perennial and annual flowers; and the best shrubs and trees for our climate, soil, and altitude. Best of all? It's free for the downloading.
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Unless your backyard is a stunning vista of concrete, there is always going to be something to do out there. The grass will need cutting and even when nothing else grows, you can guarantee that the weeds are always thriving. Some people are happy to leave their garden alone, but if you have grand designs and want to improve your garden, modern technology can be an enormous help. Apps for smartphones can help take the pain out of garden design. Apps can also save you time and money. So if you want to turn your garden into a paradise of lush foliage and cutting edge design, what iPhone apps can you use?
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Here's their complete list of gardening and homesteading apps. Most are available for both iOS and Android; a few are iOS only. Delete the scoop?
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Since I joined the modern world in getting a smart phone last year, I’ve been on the lookout for great gardening apps that can help me explain landscape design ideas to clients, get plant ideas on the go, or just give me a productive way of killing time when I’m stuck in line at the post office. Delete the scoop?
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My Grandma Phyllis, who comes from a family of farmers, says the best time to plant your garden is after Mother’s Day. The reason? There’s usually no frost after that date, and frost, obviously, can ruin your garden. My grandma is so wise... Delete the scoop?
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Miffy digs and rakes her garden soil in preparation for her carrot crop, and the young reader gets the chance to mimic her actions with fingers on an adjacent screen. Audio narration is provided in both Dutch and British-accented English.
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The Chelsea iPhone App for 2013 is free on iTunes. It provides an in-depth guide to all those exhibiting at the show, including gardens, features, floral exhibits, and shopping.
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A really long time ago, when my knees were a lot younger, my dad handed me a dandelion picker. “Go out in the backyard and pick as many dandelions as you can,” he told me, “and I’ll give you a penny for each one.” Delete the scoop?
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Spring cleaning is a yearly ritual that many people hate. However, by putting technology to work, you can get your cleaning done in less time this year. Here are five apps and online resources to help you out. Delete the scoop?
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Here's everything you ever wanted to know about QR codes...but were afraid to ask. Delete the scoop?
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Technology can help the urban grower manage their market gardens. Delete the scoop?
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When April showers aren't prepping May flowers, we can be found in the backyard flexing our green thumbs. Since we're no professionals in the world of gardening, digital resources are a must in learning which plants will thrive in a specific climate and how to produce vegetables worthy of a farmers market. Download one of these five apps this weekend to get your Spring (and Earth Month!) gardening in gear.
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Like any Wolfram app, the Wolfram Plants Reference App offers a huge amount of functionality so that you can research or analyze thousands of plants. There’s quite a large number of subject areas, so let’s explore some of them, starting with Physical Information. This allows us to either explore a single plant or compare multiple plants at the same time—we can either select from a list of over 150 common plants or type in the name of any plant we wish to look at. Delete the scoop?
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I’m just amazed by all the applications out there for Smartphones. I think it’s up to a gazillion now. Ranging in price from free on up, it’s a smorgasbord of choices that will keep you busy for hours. I’ll admit right now, I downloaded a couple while working on this article.
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This summer marks a major milestone for the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden: 25 years as one of the country’s premiere public sculpture parks. The New Media Initiatives department’s contribution to the celebration comes in the form of a brand new website for the garden, a fully responsive web app that has been an exciting challenge to build. Delete the scoop?
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Whether you’re a veteran, green-thumbed gardening enthusiast or are getting your hands dirty for the first time, the iPhone is a tool that you may find is surprisingly useful in your quest to cultivate a luscious, thriving oasis of plant life. These ten iPhone apps provide the perfect mix for successfully planting a year-round, evergreen garden. Delete the scoop?
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Got a Kindle Fire? Here's some news for you! Delete the scoop?
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Now that warm weather has found its way to us, you may be prepping your ground to get your garden started. Well, no more do you have to keep guessing the best time to plant your seeds, forget to water or weed your garden, or guess the best time to harvest. There are several gardening apps available on the Apple App store and Google Play store. Delete the scoop?
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The Garden Organizer app is a unique gardening tool to help manage the plants and their location within your garden(s). 
Ally Greer's curator insight,
May 10, 12:44 PM
Take a break from scrubbing inside, and get organized outside too! Delete the scoop?
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The Chicago Botanic Garden announced a new free smartphone app called GardenGuide. The app shares the Garden’s vast plant-collections database, containing records of the nearly 2.6 million plants in the living collection.
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Question: What good gardening apps are available for iPad and iPhone?
Answer: I do believe that my baby boomer generation deserves a lot of credit for being willing to learn all this new technology... Delete the scoop?
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"It's not for everybody, since some people want just paper and dirt," said Dore. "But many people want an app. There's probably a mobile device with you when you're in the garden, so you might as well use it." Delete the scoop?
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A children's gardening and food app recently won the digital equivalent of an Oscar. Dirtgirlworld, a game played on smartphones and tablets, teaches children how to grow food from scratch and cook up tasty meals. It's eco-friendly, full of right-on food messaging and charming enough. But are food apps for kids delicious fun or bad for their health?
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If you like to attract birds to your yard with nesting boxes and feeders, you’re not alone. An estimated 55 million Americans are into bird-watching and many are discovering that smartphones offer a whole new relationship with their avian friends. Delete the scoop?
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Just in time for Earth Day, this free app enables gardeners to create a kitchen garden or orchard with the correct number of plants necessary to feed a household. Users can also use the app to share the garden and any excess production over the Internet, creating a virtual community garden.
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