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Satellite patch canvas

Plan your garden on a satellite image of your actual property. Draw each bed where it really sits, at the size it really is, so every plan you make afterwards is based on your patch rather than a generic grid.

Free to start. No credit card required.

My Veggie Patch satellite canvas showing garden beds drawn over an Australian backyard

The patch canvas with beds drawn over a backyard. Each bed carries its own dimensions, so the app knows how much growing space you actually have.

What you can do on the canvas

Drag, resize and rotate beds

Place a bed anywhere on the canvas, drag it into position, pull the handles to resize it, and rotate it to match the angle it sits at in your yard. Beds that run along a north facing fence or curve around a path can be laid out the way they really are.

Calibrate the scale

Set the scale against something you can measure, such as the length of a fence line, a shed wall or an existing raised bed. Once the canvas is calibrated, every bed you draw carries real dimensions in metres, and plant spacing suggestions are based on those numbers.

Lock beds once they are right

When your beds have been positioned correctly, lock them so they cannot be nudged while you manage your plantings and ongoing bed management. Unlock them any time you build a new bed or move an old one.

Plan the whole patch, not just one bed

Add as many beds as you need, including pots, wicking beds and in ground rows. Seeing the whole patch at once makes it clear where the tall crops like corn and staked tomatoes will shade the lettuce and rocket behind them.

Why this matters

Most garden plans fall apart because the space was never measured. You buy six tomato seedlings for a bed that comfortably holds three, or you sow a whole packet of carrot seed into a strip that was always going to be too narrow. The plants compete, the harvest suffers, and it looks like bad luck rather than a spacing problem.

Drawing your beds on satellite imagery removes the guesswork. The app knows a bed is 2.4 metres by 1.2 metres, so when you add zucchini, silverbeet or bush beans it can tell you how many plants fit at proper spacing and what is left over for something else.

It also gives you a record. Next season you can see exactly where the brassicas went, which makes crop rotation a simple look at the canvas rather than a memory test.

Map your patch and see what it can really hold.

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Free to start. No credit card required.