NL Garden Planner

Gardening in Newfoundland is different

Stop Guessing. Get Exact Answers for YOUR Garden.

NL Garden Planner turns your location, sunlight, wind, garden setup and growing goals into a practical garden plan designed specifically for Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Raised vegetable beds overlooking colourful row houses and a Newfoundland harbour

From a sample plan

Tomatoes — Possible with strategy. Start indoors and give them the warm spot by your fence.

How it works

Step 1

Your Location

Newfoundland growing conditions can change significantly even across relatively short distances.

Step 2

Your Garden

Sun, wind, shelter, containers, raised beds and microclimates all change what will succeed.

Step 3

Your Plan

Get crop recommendations, planting dates, placement advice, risks and a season-long strategy.

Why Newfoundland needs its own garden planner

Most gardening advice is written for places with long, hot summers. Here, you're working with something different.

Newfoundland is a difficult place to garden. Difficult doesn't mean impossible. It means your garden needs a plan built for here.

  • Late spring weather & early fall frost
  • Short, variable, cool summers
  • Strong winds
  • Coastal exposure & salt
  • Fog in some areas
  • Highly local microclimates
  • Local conditions matter enormously — and using them intelligently can make a dramatic difference.

Same province. Very different gardens.

A windy, south-facing raised bed in St. John's is not the same garden as a sheltered in-ground plot in central Newfoundland. NL Garden Planner treats them differently.

Windy south-facing raised beds, St. John's

  • KaleExcellent fit
  • PotatoesExcellent fit
  • PeasPossible with strategy — firm netting
  • TomatoesPossible with strategy — warmest spot

Sheltered in-ground plot, Grand Falls-Windsor

  • KaleExcellent fit
  • ZucchiniGood fit
  • BeansGood fit — wait for warm soil
  • TomatoesGood with frost protection

Built because gardening here is different.

This project started with a simple frustration: gardening information is everywhere, but very little of it answers what Newfoundland gardeners actually need to know about their own yards. NL Garden Planner is being built to turn local climate information and practical gardening knowledge into advice people can actually use.

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