We use them to communicate, to keep our lives organized and to occasionally air our views on the World Wide Web.
But maybe it's time you do something useful with your phone. Summer is coming and the kids are about to be out of school. Why not organize some activities for you and your family to enjoy outside together? It's a great way to put everyone's free time to good use.
I've perused the app store to see what apps might be the most helpful.
Unfortunately, none of these listed below will do the work for you — that's one part of gardening that will never change.
Garden Master - Gardening Task Manager App
By Building Rainbows Software
$1.99
Are you a Type A personality?
Organize all your thoughts and don't let your garden tasks fall through the cracks!
Note, track and be reminded of all your gardening projects.
Bonus: The app has illustrations for all your tasks — an idyllic garden appearance to shoot for!
Gardening: The Ultimate Guide
By 8bittoast, LLC
Free
With this app, you have access to resources about gardening.
The articles have helpful hints about common mistakes for gardening rookies.
I haven't had the app for long, but it appears as though these might be the only articles available.
You can connect via Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest to share content you find on the app.
However, the app does have one useful feature that you can use over and over again — a flashlight.
There are definitely apps with a more direct route to a flashlight, but this one works surprisingly well.
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| These are the results I got when I took a photo of my favorite blanket. |
Garden Compass
TeamSOA, Inc.
TeamSOA, Inc.
Free
This is one of the coolest gardening apps I've found.
It's your garden-variety Shazaam.
You can take pictures of plants and the app will identify what kind of flower you're looking at.
Have a real humdinger that the app can't figure out? There's a team of experts you can email through the app who can help you out.
You can even take a photo of a color or a texture — anything, it doesn't have to be a plant.
One drawback: The shopping feature didn't work so well for me.
It told me the nearest nursery was 132 miles away, when I can name several within a five-mile radius.
Lowe's Creative Ideas Magazine
Free
Interested in home and garden magazine content?
Not so interested in subscribing to a magazine? Lowe's Creative Ideas Magazine makes all of its issues available on your phone or tablet.
There are clever ideas and gardening how-tos.
My favorite one this month is how to keep your lawn hydrated. The summer heat around my neck of the woods can wreak havoc on grass.
Wine Notes
William Lindmeier
Are you having the best wine you've ever had? Make sure to remember it by making a note.
Wine Notes allows you to take a photo — of the bottle, the glass, whatever you like — and write notes about it. The vintage, country of origin, color, alcohol, etc.
A feature utilized by this wine gardener for his own note-taking purposes is the notes. You make a record of what gardening activity you completed while you were drinking that bottle.
Taking down the notes about the wine for yourself doesn't work in all situations. Maybe you're across the pond at a cozy pub. You don't want to trouble anyone for the information about the wine. In that case, you can use the app Drync. Scan the label and Drync will identify the wine and can provide purchasing options.
Bottle Garden
Denis Turecek
Free
Combine your two favorite loves, wine and gardening, into a game.
This is Bottle Garden, but I like to think of it as Winesweeper.
The goal? Tap on every wine bottle.
The catch?
If the bottle you tapped is in the same row as another, the wine will spill, causing you to lose. If the wine hits grapes, you get another bottle of wine. Dig holes so the bottles won't break. Supposedly it helps with the upkeep of your mental agility.
However, as far as I can tell, this is simply mindless fun.
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