Grow together

Share seedlings.
Track your garden.

Veggie Exchange is a hobby community for gardeners. Share seedlings with neighbors, follow other growers, and keep a beautiful record of everything you plant — from seed to harvest.

Get started — it’s free How it works

Free to use · Some growers ask a small price, paid to them directly · Get the iOS app

A garden journal for the whole neighborhood.

Whether you grow a couple of tomato pots on a balcony or a few hundred seedlings in a backyard greenhouse, Veggie Exchange helps you track what you plant — and share the extras with other gardeners nearby.

Three ways people use Veggie Exchange

Gardeners

Keep a journal of everything you grow: watering, feeding, problems and harvests, one timeline per plant. No farm needed.

Best on the iPhone app

Neighbors picking up plants

Find a local farm, follow it, reserve seedlings from its store and pick a time to collect them.

Best on the iPhone app

Growers

Plan trays, track germination, print QR labels, and run a small pickup store for your extras.

Plan on the web; log in the field on your phone

Not sure which to use? App or website?

Plant detail

Every plant has its own story.

Tap any plant and see its full history: when it was seeded, every pot size it lived in, where it went in the garden, and every care event you logged along the way.

✓Pot size history with day counts at each stage
✓Harvest timeline with pick counts, weights and dates
✓One tap to log a harvest, problem, watering, feeding or photo

Plant page for Aji Amarillo Grande showing its pot size history, a harvest timeline with 12 peppers over 4 picks, quick-log buttons, and an AI diagnosis entry with a leaf photo

Store & pickup

Get seedlings from growers nearby.

Browse what a local farm has ready, reserve plants in your cart, and choose a pickup window. Some growers share for free; others ask a small price, paid to them directly.

✓Photos, seed company and how many are left
✓Plants are held for you while you check out
✓Change your pickup window or cancel items yourself

A farm's store showing plant cards for Alyssum, Zinnia, Aji Amarillo Grande, Bonda Ma Jacques and Marconi Rosso with photos, availability, prices or Free, and Add to Cart buttons

Community

Share what you grow with people nearby.

Post photos and updates from your garden, tag specific plants, and follow other growers. Reactions and comments keep the conversation going.

✓Post photos, react, comment, and follow other growers
✓Tag the exact plant in a post by scanning its QR code
✓See updates from every grower at the farms you follow

A farm's community feed showing a post titled Peppers with a photo of a bowl of 648 Coyote Teeth peppers from one plant

There’s a lot more.

Seed inventory, a tray planner, germination tracking, season analytics, badges, problem logging and more, with where each one lives.

See every feature

Veggie Exchange on iOS

Take your garden everywhere.

Log a harvest, scan a plant’s QR code, or post a photo from the garden. Reserve plants from growers nearby and pick a time to collect them. Get a push notification when someone comments, reacts or follows you. Sign in with Apple, Google, an email magic link, or a password.