My varieties

GardenOS ships with a catalog of common varieties, but you grow your own set, and you probably name some of them your own way. The variety library is where your own varieties live. They sit alongside the built-in catalog, and they are yours: the same library is available in every garden on your account.

What the built-in catalog covers

The built-in catalog holds more than a thousand common varieties: vegetables, fruit, herbs, and flowers. It leans toward the named cultivars the major US seed companies actually sell, so a seed packet you bought is likely to match an entry already in the system, which means your planting picks up days to harvest, sow method, and a care profile automatically instead of starting blank. Each entry carries agronomic data, not a sales listing, and the catalog grows over time. If something you grow is not in it, import or add it and it becomes one of your own varieties.

Where your varieties come from

Two ways varieties get into your library:

• Import. When you import plantings or a variety list and a name is not already in the catalog, GardenOS adds it here as your own. This is why an import never loses a variety, even one the catalog has never heard of.
• By hand. On the My varieties page you can add a variety directly, with a name, scientific name, category, days to harvest, and notes.

What you can do here

The My varieties page lists the varieties you own. For each one you can edit any field or delete it. Deleting a variety that a planting still points at does not delete the planting; the planting just loses the link.

The built-in catalog is read-only. You cannot edit the shared catalog entries, only your own. When you import or add a name that exactly matches a catalog entry, GardenOS links to the catalog rather than making a duplicate.

Tiers

Bringing varieties in through import is free, so you never lose data getting started. Managing the library on this page (adding by hand, editing, and curating) is an Advanced feature.