Assets

An asset is a physical growing space: a raised bed, a grow bag, a vertical stalk, a perennial planting, or any other container. Assets are the locations where plantings live, and they appear on the Map once placed.

The list

Each asset card shows what’s growing in it right now (its active plantings, and how full it is) and a “View on map” link to its spot. Assets have a lifecycle status — Active, Fallow, Retired, or Seasonal — shown as a badge when it isn’t Active, and you can filter the list by status. Set an asset’s status from its card in Edit mode.

Asset types

The type affects how the asset is represented on the map and how GardenOS estimates its growing capacity.

Creating an asset

1. Go to Assets in the sidebar.
2. Tap New asset.
3. Give it a name — something you will recognise in the field (e.g. “3×8 North bed”, “South bags row”).
4. Set the type.
5. Add dimensions (width and length in feet) if you know them. These are used on the map and in capacity estimates.
6. Save.

Editing and deleting

Tap any asset in the list to open its detail page. From there you can edit its name, type, and dimensions, view its current plantings, and delete it.

For quick changes without opening each one, tap Edit at the top of the Assets list; it works in both views. Your view choice and a Roomy/Compact density toggle sit in the toolbar and stick per page on this device. In the table view, a Columns button lets you choose which columns show and reorder them, also saved per page. In the table view you can edit name and type inline (dimensions stay on the detail page); in the card view each card’s name and type become inline fields. Each change saves on its own.

Filtering and sorting

The Assets toolbar has a Filter & Sort button. It opens a drawer holding the sort order (Name, Type, Width, or Newest) and the filters. Today the one filter is Type (Raised Bed, Grow Bag, Pot, Vertical Stalk, Perennial / Tree Zone, Zone, Structure): tick several types to match any of them (OR), and each value shows how many spaces it would match. Tap Show items to apply. Active filters also show as removable chips below the toolbar, so you can see what’s filtered and clear a single one without reopening the drawer. Assets opens showing every space — there is no default filter to clear. Search, the Type filter, and sort all combine: when you filter to a type and across fields they all apply (AND), the count in the toolbar reads “N spaces”.

Note: Deleting an asset does not delete its plantings. Plantings are unlinked from the asset but remain in your history.

One-tap watering

Every asset card has a Water button with a droplet icon. Tap it once and GardenOS logs a completed watering against that bed and every active planting in it, with no form and no typing. It records as a finished watering task, so it shows up in your task history and counts toward the time you have spent on the garden. Use it when you have just watered a whole bed and want the record without the friction. Read-only members do not see the button.

Assets and the map

Once you have assets, you can place them on the garden map. Go to Map, enter edit mode, and drag each asset onto the canvas. The map is purely visual — placing an asset on the map does not create or change any planting data.

Tips

• Name assets for their location or role, not just a number. When you are in the garden, “East bag row” is clearer than “Asset 3.”
• Set dimensions accurately if you use the workload or capacity features — they affect estimates.
• The global Assets view (/assets) shows all assets across every garden you manage, with a garden chip on each row.