A field notebook for your garden
Every seed has a story. Keep it.
Rootstock is a field notebook for your garden. Catalog your seeds, tag your plants, log how each one grows, and record every cross, so next season you know exactly what you're planting and where it came from.
Free · Works offline · No account needed
The problem
The garden forgets. You don't have to.
Plant markers fade by July. Saved seeds end up in unlabeled envelopes. Your best notes are split between a notebook, your camera roll, and memory. By the time you're saving seed, you can't quite remember which plant that perfect tomato actually came from. Rootstock keeps all of it in one place, tied to the real plant in the ground.
Features
Built for how gardeners actually work.
01 · Trace
Traceability, both directions
Every plant links back to the exact seed it grew from and forward to the seeds it produced. Follow any tomato's whole line, season after season: seed parent ♀, pollen donor ♂, and every lot in between.
02 · Timeline
A timeline for every plant
Log watering, heat and drought response, height, fruit counts, disease, and photos. See how a plant behaved across the whole season, not just the day you remembered to write it down.
03 · Inventory
Seed inventory you can trust
Know what you have, which plant it came from, and which year you saved it, without digging through a shoebox of envelopes. Every lot carries a printable code and a running seed count.
04 · Pedigree
Breeding pedigree
Cross two varieties and Rootstock records both parents, the seed mother and the pollen father, then builds the family tree of your lines as they develop.
Made for the garden
Works fully offline. No signal, no problem. Log right there at the bed, hands in the dirt.
Your records stay yours
Export and back up your whole garden anytime. It's your data, in your hands.
Physical tagging
Give every plant a name it can't lose.
Rootstock ties your records to the real thing in the soil. Two ways.
QR labels
Print cheap, weatherproof QR stickers for pots and seed packets. Scan one with any phone camera and that plant or seed lot opens instantly. No scrolling, no guessing.
NFC tags
Program a reusable NFC tag once, then just tap your phone to it. Works in low light, in the rain, and with muddy hands. Tap the pot, see the plant's whole history.
Every plant and every seed lot gets a permanent identity you can stick to the pot and pick up again years later.
How it works
Three steps.
Catalog your seeds
Add what you've got (variety, source, year) and Rootstock gives each seed lot a code you can print.
Tag and plant
Stick a QR label or program an NFC tag on the pot as you sow. Now the plant knows what it is.
Log and cross
Track how it grows through the season, and record your crosses as you make them. Next year's seeds already have their story.
Who it's for
For people who take their garden personally.
You hate losing track of a good variety. Rootstock remembers which plant, which bed, which year, so next spring you sow with intent.
You're building a collection. Every lot traces to the plant it came from, with counts and years you can actually trust.
You're chasing the perfect cross. Record ♀ × ♂, follow the generations, and watch a stable line emerge.
It started with tomatoes and peppers, and it grows the way your garden does.
Where it's headed
Where it's headed.
Rootstock is coming soon to iPhone, and it'll be free while we're in early release. It runs entirely on your device, so it's fast and works anywhere. Cloud sync and a web app are coming next, so you'll be able to reach your garden from any device, and your records will still be yours, always exportable.
Start this season's records.
It's free, it works offline, and it takes two minutes to catalog your first seeds.
Free · Works offline · No account needed