Every tool lives in the same app. Premium raises the limits to 100 scans and 1,000 Gardi chats a month. If you want to feel how Vegardi thinks before downloading anything, the Plant Doctor and the Garden Check-Up are available. Free in the browser, no account needed for your first scans.

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Know before you buy.

Q: Is there an app that checks plants before you buy them?

Yes. Vegardi, the home food-growing app, includes Buy Scan: photograph a seedling at the nursery, before you pay, and it names the plant, reads its health and whether its size is right for its age, and gives a verdict. Including leave it. It is built for edible plants: vegetables, herbs and leafy greens for home growing.

Q: How do I pick a healthy seedling at the nursery?

Short, stocky and deep green beats tall and leggy. Roots should be white and fibrous, not circling the pot or crowding out the soil. Check the undersides of leaves, where pests hide, and skip trays already covered in blooms, because that energy should be going into growth. Those are exactly the signals Buy Scan reads from your photo, plus one a beginner cannot judge by eye: whether the size fits the age.

Q: Can an app tell if a nursery plant is mislabeled?

Buy Scan names the plant from the photo itself, so the verdict is about the seedling in your hand, not the label on the tray. Mislabeled trays happen more often than nurseries would like.

At the nursery, every tray looks fine. Buy Scan photographs a seedling before the money leaves your pocket, names the plant, reads its health and whether its size is right for its age, and gives a verdict. Including "leave it." What you do take home starts its documented life on your map, from day zero.

Get the app See what comes back

The one verdict the shelf will never give you itself. Privacy

In the app · at the shelf, in under a minute

Photograph at the shelfBefore the money leaves your pocket.

It names the plantMislabeled trays cannot fool you.

Health and size, readThe two things a beginner cannot judge.

Get the verdictTake it home, or leave it. And home means the map.

Choosing between look-alike seedling trays at a nursery

At the nursery

Two trays of the same tomato, one shelf apart. One will fruit all summer. One is already root-bound and tired. From the aisle, they look identical.

The question at the shelf was never "is this plant nice." It was "will this one succeed at home."

This is what comes back.

A worked verdict at the shelf, while you are still holding the tray.

Nursery aisle · one photo, before you pay

Basil

Good pick

What I see

Deep, even color with no leggy stretch, stems short and sturdy, roots not circling the cup.

Ready to buy?

Health you can half-see; size-for-age you cannot. A seedling too mature for its cup is already stressed, and it establishes poorly no matter how well you treat it at home. This one is young enough to land well.

1 seedling found

This one is worth buying.

Maybe skip Root-bound, past easy transplanting.

From the verdict, one tap each

enters Seedlings ready to transplantAdd to Seedlings
Read about basil in the plant indexAdd
Not basil? Change plantChoose plant

What you get

A healthy young seedling chosen and carried home

A verdict at the shelf: worth taking home, or not, while you can still choose.
It names the plant from the photo, so mislabeled trays cannot fool you.
Health and size-for-age, read for you: the two things a beginner cannot judge from the aisle.
It can say "leave it," and point at the better buy standing next to it.
Day-zero records: what you buy enters your planting map and journal at the register, not weeks later.
The nursery visit becomes part of your garden's story, not a memory that fades by the weekend.

Why the shelf is the moment

Most plant apps meet your plant after you own it. The decision that shapes a season happens earlier, at the shelf, and that is where Buy Scan stands, on your side of the register.

And when the honest answer is "leave it," that is the answer you get.

Questions growers ask

Is there an app that checks plants before you buy them?

Yes. Vegardi, the home food-growing app, includes Buy Scan: photograph a seedling at the nursery, before you pay, and it names the plant, reads its health and whether its size is right for its age, and gives a verdict. Including "leave it." It is built for edible plants: vegetables, herbs and leafy greens for home growing.

How do I pick a healthy seedling at the nursery?

Short, stocky and deep green beats tall and leggy. Roots should be white and fibrous, not circling the pot or crowding out the soil. Check the undersides of leaves, where pests hide, and skip trays already covered in blooms, because that energy should be going into growth. Those are exactly the signals Buy Scan reads from your photo, plus one a beginner cannot judge by eye: whether the size fits the age.

Can an app tell if a nursery plant is mislabeled?

Buy Scan names the plant from the photo itself, so the verdict is about the seedling in your hand, not the label on the tray. Mislabeled trays happen more often than nurseries would like.

What happens after I buy the plant?

What you take home goes onto your Planting Map and starts its documented life the day you buy it: its journal, its tasks and its harvest story all begin at the shelf, not weeks later.

I grow in soil. Can I use Buy Scan?

The scan itself reads the seedling in your hand. The app's full tracking is built for hydroponic systems today; the soil version is in development, and you can join the waitlist to enter its beta as a Founding Grower.

Is Buy Scan free?

Every tool lives in the same app. Premium raises the limits to 100 scans and 1,000 Gardi chats a month. If you want to feel how Vegardi thinks first, the Plant Doctor and the Garden Check-Up are available. Free in the browser, no account needed for your first scans.

One app. This is a room in it.

Buy Scan is one of fifteen tools inside Vegardi, all working the same garden, so each knows what the others did. Every tool lives in the same app. Premium raises the limits to 100 scans and 1,000 Gardi chats a month.

In the appScan at any nursery; what you buy lands on your map.Included

In PremiumThe full toolset, with up to 100 scans and 1,000 Gardi chats a month. Currently free for Founding Growers for the first three months.Premium

Feel it in the browser firstThe Plant Doctor and Garden Check-Up are available. Free in the browser, no account needed for your first scans.Free

And it does not work alone. Meet the other fourteen: