Some of the work of keeping a garden is not gardening at all. It's remembering that you watered the beds before breakfast, that the beetles were back on the beans, that you finally got the leeks in. Gardener's Almanac can take that dictation from an AI assistant instead of from your thumbs: tell your assistant you watered this morning and it goes in the log; ask what needs doing this week and it reads your to-do list back to you; ask whether tomorrow is worth watering and it checks the same forecast the app does.
What it can do
Once connected, an assistant can work your garden records the way you would:
- Log what you did — watering, soil checks, weeding, and notes.
- Record the season's milestones — sowing, planting out, and harvesting, against the right plant.
- Keep your beds current — add plants to a garden, or take them out when they're spent.
- Work the to-do list — read what's due, tick things off, or push them to a better day.
- Look things up — the watering forecast for your garden, the plant catalogue, and these articles.
It acts as you, on your own garden. It cannot see another gardener's beds, and it cannot do anything you couldn't do yourself in the app.
Connecting one
There is one address, and it's the same for every assistant:
- In your assistant, add
https://gardeners-almanac.app/mcpas a custom connector. - It will send you to a Gardener's Almanac sign-in page. Enter your email address.
- Enter the six-digit code we email you — the same way you sign in on the web.
- Tick the consent box, which names the assistant and exactly what it's asking for.
That's the whole setup. There's no password to hand over and no key to copy and paste anywhere, which is the point: the assistant never learns how to sign in as you. It gets its own permission slip, and you can tear it up whenever you like.
What it gets access to
The consent box is the honest part of this, so it's worth reading rather than clicking past. It names the assistant and says whether it's asking to read your garden or to read and change it. Nothing is granted beyond what it lists.
The Gardener's Almanac app on your own phone asks for one thing more: permission to see and disconnect your other connected apps, so that the list below is manageable from your pocket and not only from a browser. No other assistant is given that by default — if one ever asks for it, the consent box will say so plainly, and you should be as suspicious as that sounds.
Disconnecting
Open Settings and find Connected apps. Everything you've connected is listed there, with when you last authorised it and what it can do. Tap Disconnect next to any of them.
Access stops at once — not at the end of the day, not when something expires, but on the very next thing that assistant asks us for. Nothing it already logged is deleted; your garden's record is yours and stays put. And if you change your mind, connecting again is the same four steps as the first time.
If you're new here and wondering what's worth logging in the first place, Getting Started is the place to go next.