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What will actually succeed, here?

Before you buy a single seed, What Can I Grow crosses your system, your climate and season, your hours of real sun and your experience against 100+ edible crops, and returns a ranked list with the reason for every pick. And when something cannot succeed at your place, it says so. Before the season teaches you the hard way.

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In the app · from a guess to a plan

Tell it your worldSystem, light, season, experience. One minute.
Get a ranked listFor your exact conditions, reasons shown.
Hear the honest noWhat cannot succeed here, said out loud.
One tap to plantYour pick lands on your planting map.
A new grower deciding what to plant

Choosing blind

Five seed packets, one balcony, and advice written for somebody else's climate. Half of them cannot succeed at your place. Nobody tells you which half.

The question was never "what can people grow." It was "what can I grow, here."

This is what comes back.

Not a catalogue. A worked answer for your exact place, reasons included.

Balcony system · five sun hours · late spring

What can succeed at your place, ranked. The strongest first:

Ranked for you

1 · Cherry tomato, compact

Your five sun hours clear its bar, your late-spring window is exactly its season, and it forgives beginner mistakes. Fruits early and keeps giving. Pairs well with the basil below.

2 · Basil

Thrives in your setup with room to spare, and it is a mapped companion of the tomato above: the two do better side by side than either does alone.

3 · Lettuce, loose-leaf

The quick win of the three: first pickings within weeks, tolerant of the hours your balcony shades. A good slot-filler between bigger bets.

And the honest no: full-size watermelon. Your six slots and five sun hours cannot carry it to a real harvest. The better bet with the same crunch: a compact cucumber, which can actually finish at your place.

From here, one tap each

  1. Send a pick to your planting map; the season plans itself around itPlant it
  2. Not ready yet? Save it to your wishlist, waiting for its seasonSave for later
  3. Conditions change? The ranking re-runs for the new seasonRe-rank

What you get

Hands holding a young seedling ready for planting
  • Ranked for your exact conditions, with the reasoning shown beside every pick.
  • Honest about what will not fruit where you are, before you spend a season finding out.
  • Filter by what you are after: quick wins, plants that grow well together, or best fit for your system.
  • 965 mapped companion pairs behind the "grows well together" filter.
  • Works with no garden configured. Dream first, buy later.
  • One tap from recommendation to planting map, where the rest of Vegardi takes over.
  • Not ready to plant it yet? Save it for later: a tap adds any pick to your wishlist, waiting for its season.

Why the answer can be this specific

Most tools hand you a catalogue and let you guess. What Can I Grow works from what each crop needs: season, sun, space and system, mapped per variety.

100+
Edible crops
965
Companion pairs

As of October 2026, and growing.

And when your conditions cannot carry a crop, it says no. Out loud, with a better fit beside it.

Questions growers ask

Is there an app that tells you what to plant?
Yes. Vegardi, the home food-growing app, includes a tool for exactly this: What Can I Grow. It crosses your system, your location's climate and season, your hours of real sun and your experience against 100+ edible crops, and returns a ranked list with the reason for every pick. It also tells you what will not succeed at your place, before you spend a season finding out.
What vegetables can I grow at home?
More than most people expect, and the honest answer is personal: it depends on your light, your space, your season and what you grow in. Leafy greens and herbs forgive almost any setup; fruiting crops like tomatoes and cucumbers ask for real sun and steady care. What Can I Grow, inside the Vegardi app, turns that general truth into your specific ranked list.
What can I grow indoors without much sunlight?
Low light usually still carries lettuce, arugula, spinach and most soft herbs, while fruiting crops struggle without hours of strong sun. And with no direct sun at all, growing food takes a grow light; no edible crop truly lives on room light alone. The real answer depends on the light your spot actually gets, which is one of the things the tool asks before it ranks anything for you.
Can it tell me what will NOT grow at my place?
Yes, and on purpose. When a crop cannot succeed in your conditions, it says so and offers a better fit instead. A season of effort is too expensive to spend discovering a no that was knowable on day one.
Do I need to own a growing system already?
No. It works with nothing configured, so you can dream first and buy later. Tell it the conditions you have or the setup you are considering, and it will show you what that garden could produce.
Is What Can I Grow free?
It is part of the Vegardi app and included from the free plan. 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.

One app. This is a room in it.

What Can I Grow 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 adds unlimited scans and conversations.

In the app, free planWhat Can I Grow is included from the free plan.Free
In PremiumThe full toolset, unlimited. 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:

Plant Doctor
A real diagnosis, graded, free in the browser. Planting Map
The garden, slot for slot. A3 is A3. Buy Scan
At the nursery: which seedlings are worth taking home. Seed Starter
The most fragile fortnight, watched closely. Task Cards
Not a reminder. The whole job. Garden Check-Up
A weekly pass, even when everything looks fine. EC and pH
Live targets for your mix, and the dosing math done. Weather Protocols
The forecast, answered with steps for your crops. Harvest Check
When each crop is ready, and how to check. Harvest Log
What the season actually produced. Plant Journal
Every plant's whole story, kept in order. Gardi, your growing mentor
The professional who already knows your garden. Technical Advisor
For the day the equipment is the problem. Learn Hub
Teaches what you are about to need, when you need it.

Scroll sideways for all of them →

Stop guessing.
Start with what wants to grow here.

One minute of questions, and the season is planned around plants that can actually succeed at your place. Even before you own a thing.

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