easyDacha vs Grow to Eat: Weekly Calendar or Full Care Plan?

Grow to Eat is a free app that gives you a week-by-week calendar of what to sow, plant, and harvest for your location, plus crop ideas for your space. easyDacha goes further than the calendar: it builds a stage-by-stage care plan for each plant and tells you what to do at every step, with organic or mineral feeding and homemade fertilizer recipes.

Pick Grow to Eat for a free weekly checklist.
Pick easyDacha for a full plan that carries each plant to harvest.

Quick comparison

easyDacha Grow to Eat
Platform iPhone (iOS) Android (check iOS)
Price About $35/year, 14-day trial Free tier, paid premium
Core idea Stage-by-stage care plan Week-by-week sowing calendar
Care tasks 14 task types per stage, including protection and monitoring What to sow, plant, harvest each week
Care style Organic or mineral approach Not offered
Feeding Homemade DIY fertilizer recipes in tasks Not offered
Planting dates Your ZIP code's frost dates Location and season calendar
Flexible start Start any time; see if your harvest beats first frost; the plan re-times to your date Weekly calendar
Spacing Adapts to bed type: square-foot or rows Visual planner (premium)
Seed & seedling tracking Yes Not the focus
Feature comparison reflects publicly available information as of 2026. Pricing and plans may change.
Where Grow to Eat fits better
It is free to start, and the week-by-week structure is simple to follow. If you want plain "what do I do this week" guidance and crop suggestions for your space without paying anything, Grow to Eat is an easy on-ramp.
Where easyDacha wins
A weekly calendar tells you what to do this week in general. easyDacha tells you what each of your plants needs right now. It carries every plant through its stages, germination to harvest, and pushes the task when it is due: sow, transplant, water, feed, scout for pests, pick, with protection and monitoring so problems get caught early.

You choose organic or mineral feeding, and homemade fertilizer recipes are built into the tasks. Spacing follows how you grow, square-foot in beds, rows in-ground. And you are not locked to a fixed start: begin whenever suits you, see whether the harvest beats first frost, and the care plan re-times around your choice.
Who should pick which
You want a free weekly checklist: Grow to Eat.
You want a full care plan for each plant: easyDacha.
You feed organically or with homemade fertilizers: easyDacha.
You want pest and disease prevention built in: easyDacha.

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