easyDacha vs SeedTime: Planting Calendar or Care Plan?
The two overlap, so the difference is focus. SeedTime is a planting calendar: enter your ZIP, and it builds a schedule with succession plantings and an auto task checklist. easyDacha is a care plan: it walks each plant through its growth stages and tells you what to do at every step, with organic or mineral feeding and homemade fertilizer recipes.
Pick SeedTime to plan when to plant.
Pick SeedTime to plan when to plant.
Pick easyDacha to know how to grow it.
Quick comparison
| easyDacha | SeedTime | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | iPhone (iOS) | Web and phone |
| ZIP frost-date timing | Yes | Yes |
| Flexible start | Start any time; see if your harvest beats first frost; the care plan re-times to your date | Calendar dates and succession |
| Core focus | Stage-by-stage care plan | Planting calendar and succession |
| Care tasks | 14 task types per stage, including protection and monitoring | Auto task checklist from the calendar |
| Care style | Organic or mineral approach | Not offered |
| Feeding | Homemade DIY fertilizer recipes in tasks | Not offered |
| Succession planning | Yes: stagger plantings any time, each shows fruit-vs-frost | Yes, year-round calendar |
| Spacing | Adapts to bed type: square-foot or rows | Visual layout (paid) |
| Seed & seedling tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Pricing | About $35/year, 14-day trial | Free tier; paid $83.99–$167.99/year |
Feature comparison reflects publicly available information as of 2026. Pricing and plans may change.
Where SeedTime fits better
SeedTime's edge is the year-at-a-glance calendar and where it runs. Its dedicated planting calendar lays out a whole year of sowings in one view, it works on web and desktop as well as phone, and it has a free tier to start. If you like planning the full year on a big calendar screen, that is the draw.
Where easyDacha wins
SeedTime maps the calendar. easyDacha walks each plant through the whole grow. It guides you from the very seed, whether you start seeds indoors, direct-sow in the bed, or buy seedlings, and tells you what to do, when, and how at each stage right through to harvest: sow, transplant, water, feed, scout for pests, protect, pick.
The pest and disease monitoring a pure calendar skips is built in. You choose organic or mineral feeding, with homemade fertilizer recipes inside the tasks. Spacing adjusts to how you grow, square-foot in beds, rows in-ground. And you are not tied to fixed dates: start whenever suits you, see whether the harvest beats first frost, and the whole care plan re-times around your choice.
You can stagger plantings the same way for a continual harvest, and for each batch easyDacha shows whether it will fruit before the frost, so late successions are not a gamble. SeedTime plans the calendar. easyDacha runs it from seed to harvest.
The pest and disease monitoring a pure calendar skips is built in. You choose organic or mineral feeding, with homemade fertilizer recipes inside the tasks. Spacing adjusts to how you grow, square-foot in beds, rows in-ground. And you are not tied to fixed dates: start whenever suits you, see whether the harvest beats first frost, and the whole care plan re-times around your choice.
You can stagger plantings the same way for a continual harvest, and for each batch easyDacha shows whether it will fruit before the frost, so late successions are not a gamble. SeedTime plans the calendar. easyDacha runs it from seed to harvest.
Who should pick which
You want the best planting calendar and succession scheduling: SeedTime.
You want day-to-day care through each growth stage: easyDacha.
You feed organically or with homemade fertilizers: easyDacha.
You want pest and disease prevention built into the plan: easyDacha.
You want day-to-day care through each growth stage: easyDacha.
You feed organically or with homemade fertilizers: easyDacha.
You want pest and disease prevention built into the plan: easyDacha.
FAQ
Yes. The difference is what they do with them: SeedTime builds a calendar, easyDacha builds a stage-by-stage care plan.
Yes. Stagger plantings at any time, and for each batch easyDacha shows whether it will fruit before the first frost. SeedTime maps successions on a year-long calendar; easyDacha shows whether each one will actually finish in time.
No. easyDacha lets you choose, with homemade fertilizer recipes built into the tasks.
SeedTime has a free tier; its paid plans run $83.99 to $167.99 per year. easyDacha is about $35 per year with a 14-day trial, so it is far cheaper than SeedTime's paid plans.
