Grow Your Own – from the RHS

The free iPhone application from the Royal Horticultural Society - Grow Your Own.

We are currently developing this app for the guys at We Are Friday, the East London based interactive agency, on behalf of their client The Royal Horticultural Society. Phase 1 of the iPhone app is now available on the iTunes store and forms part of the RHS's 'Grow Your Own' campaign, a great push to encourage people to grow their own fruit and veg, checkout the website here.

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The free iPhone application from the Royal Horticultural Society - Grow Your Own - is designed to help you choose and grow fruit and vegetables - however much space or time you have. Currently, the content covers the 20 most popular varieties of fruit and veg, but low cost bundles of content covering additional fruit and veg will be available to buy soon...

This app is initially intended for less experienced or less confident gardeners but will be a valuable resource for all because it gives you the chance to access horticultural advice from the UK's leading gardening organisation whilst you are out and about in your garden with your iPhone.

The first release of this app helps you to:

• choose vegetables and fruit for your garden based on your level of expertise, and your available space and time
• access expert RHS advice about your chosen fruit/veg, what to do and when, view varieties that we recommend and learn about common problems you might encounter such as diseases and pests and what to do about them
• link to the RHS plants site to buy quality RHS plants
• access the RHS Grow Your Own forum, to ask questions, advice and chat to fellow gardeners

The next release of this application (due very soon!) will allow you to unlock more content and functionality for a small charge. It will include:

• An additional 15 fruit and veg (bringing the total to 35)
• Calendar and To-Do list functionality to keep track of your plants' progress so you know what to do and when
• Location-aware weather alerts

Thereafter, we'll release bundles of new content, that will be available in the app, again, for a small fee.

If you have any feedback or suggestions for what you'd like to see in future, do get in touch at iphone@rhs.org.uk

* information correct as of April 2010. All Content in the Grow Your Own App is © The Royal Horticultural Society