Sow it today, know exactly what it is by spring.
Voice the variety and sow date at the bench, and the tray answers for itself weeks on — when every seedling looks identical and a damp lolly stick has long since smudged blank.
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What you capture
- Variety, supplier and sow date for each tray or batch
- A spoken note at the bench as you sow or prick out — hands still mucky
- A photo of the seed packet and its growing instructions
Tap the tray and its whole record opens on your phone — what's in it, when it was sown, every photo and voice note — even weeks later when the seedlings are indistinguishable.
Spring propagation is where seed-starting labels fail fastest: dozens of near-identical seedlings and lolly sticks that smudge the moment they get damp or drop out of the compost altogether. By the time things are big enough to tell apart, you're guessing which tray was the early tomatoes and which was the chillies. Tag each tray once and the detail lives in the app, not on a stick that fades.
Better still, every tray builds its own sowing journal. Speak a quick note as you sow or prick out — germination dates, how many came up, what you potted on — and it joins a dated timeline you can scroll back through next year. When the batch is planted out, free the tag and reuse it for the next sowing; the record is kept, so you still have last season's seed-starting history when you want it. Set a reminder on a tray and your phone prompts you when the timely jobs come round — prick out the seedlings, start hardening them off, or plant out once the last frost has passed.
Stick a tag on it
A cheap NFC tag on a stake, lid, box — anything.
Tap & add
Photos, notes, voice. Date and place captured automatically.
Tap to recall
Tap again, anytime, to see everything. No app to install.
Questions
- Can I add a note without typing?
- Yes. Speak it. Tap the tag, record a voice note while you're still sowing with mucky hands, and it's saved to that tray with the date and place added for you.
- Can one tag cover a whole tray?
- Yes. Tag the tray or batch rather than every cell, and note how many of each variety it holds. One tap brings back the lot.
- Can I reuse the tags next season?
- Yes. When a batch is planted out you can free the tag for the next sowing. The tray's whole story — notes, photos and dates — is archived, so nothing is lost and you can look it up again later.