Every tool lives in the same app. Premium adds unlimited scans and conversations. 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.

Buy Scan by Vegardi: know which seedling to buy, before you pay

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.

Know before you buy.

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.

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

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

Worth taking home: basil, healthy, size right for its age

Take it

What it read

Deep, even color with no leggy stretch, stems short and sturdy, roots not circling the cup. The plant in the photo matches its label, so the tray is what it claims to be.

Why it matters

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.

What happens at home

One tap and it enters your planting map with today as day zero: its journal opens, its care follows its stage, and the nursery visit becomes part of its story.

And on the next tray it said: leave it. Root-bound, past easy transplanting. A younger tray of the same crop is the better buy: smaller today, stronger in a month.

From the verdict, one tap each

Onto your planting map, documented from day zeroTake it home
Its journal opens today; its first care follows its stageDay zero
Left it? The scan cost you nothing but the photoWalk away

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.

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 adds unlimited scans and conversations. 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.

Know before you buy.

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