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Gardenist helps you keep track of what's growing in your garden, look up plants, and trade seeds with neighbors. It works just as well for a backyard tomato patch as it does for a botanical garden.

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Meyer Lemon
Citrus × meyeri
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My Garden Where what you're growing lives. Yours until you decide to share.
Cherokee Purple
Solanum lycopersicum
Cherokee Purple
Solanum lycopersicum
Back Yard · Raised Bed 2
Observation 2 days ago
First flowers on the lower trusses. Pinched a few suckers.
Seed Exchange Trade seeds with people who garden nearby. Variety matters, so we ask for it.
Have 0.8 mi
Calendula 'Resina'
Saved Sept 2025 · ~80 seeds · Free, trade welcome
Want 1.4 mi
Nasturtium 'Empress of India'
Looking to trade — have borage, calendula
Have 2.1 mi
Sunflower 'Italian White'
~120 seeds · Free · Verde Heights swap group
Marketplace Find starts, produce, and seedlings from people close to you.
Calendula
Calendula starts · 4-pack
$8
Hilltop Nursery · verified · USDA 9b · pickup Oakland
Tomato
Cherokee Purple seedlings
$5
Mira K. · individual grower · 1.2 mi
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Cherokee Purple Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
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Solanaceae · Indeterminate heirloom
Cherokee Purple Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum 'Cherokee Purple'
Full sun
Regular
Mid–late summer

A beloved heirloom with dusty rose–purple skin and deep, complex flavour. Heavy bearer on indeterminate vines; stake early and remove suckers to keep the plant focused on fruit.

"Plant out after last frost and they'll take off. I got 40+ lbs from one vine in Zone 9b last year."
— Maria G. · Zone 9b
+ 17 more tips from gardeners in zones 5–10
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Food gardeners
Log what you planted and what you harvested. Most of what's in the seed exchange is edible — tomatoes, beans, calendula, nasturtium, the things people grow alongside their vegetables.
Ornamental & landscape
Plant pages show care and zones up top, then notes from people who've actually grown it. When two plants keep showing up in the same photos, that quietly becomes companion-planting data.
Botanical gardens
Public gardens and arboreta get their own pages. Look up a plant and you can see which gardens nearby have one in their collection.
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