5 Star Potential Squandered – Homegrown with Bonnie Plants Review

This App can be summed up in four parts, list, notes, resources, weather. List: the list of plants in your garden is fine, but with limited usefulness. If you have Bonnie plants, or similar varieties, you get basic care and harvest info, same result as a basic Google search, but it's all stacked in one spot. The good: any plants you tag in a note, that note shows up on the plants info screen. The bad: the care instructions are super basic. I'd expect more considering the source. Notes: Notes is such a good idea gone completely wrong. You can only see one day at a time, and built in activities you can select like fertilizing just show a little icon. So to know when you last fertilized a specific plant you have to scroll day by day until you maybe notice the tiny tick mark, then open it and scroll the ENTIRE list of plants in your garden and see which is checked off. Which is obnoxious if you have a large garden. The photos you add to the notes actually add independent of the note so if you delete something you have to delete the photos separately. Resources: basic but not without their usefulness to beginners or small scale container gardening, I'm sure the bulk of their customers. The lists of pests and blights would be so, so much more useful with real life pictures and examples and not a single zoomed in colored pencil drawing. Weather: how in the world do you have a weather enabled gardening app with no rainfall numbers or alerts? I should be able to set a reminder for "don't forget extra water, temp exceeds X degrees" or "don't overwater, X amount of rain today"
Review by Lord Malthus on Homegrown with Bonnie Plants.