Lawn care schedule & calendar for DIY homeowners
Your lawn care schedule, built for your yard.
YardLedger tells you when to fertilize, water, mow, and treat your lawn — timed to your grass type, ZIP, and local forecast, with the reason behind every task — and nothing the AI proposes lands until you approve it.
Timing built from NOAA National Weather Service, Open-Meteo, USDA SSURGO soil, and the USDA hardiness-zone map (via phzmapi.org) — sources you can click and check.
- We don't sell fertilizer or take a cut of anything you buy
- The AI proposes; you approve before anything is scheduled
- Every source is named, and every one of them is a link
A preview of the YardLedger app: a Care screen listing a spring fertilizer application due today, a crabgrass pre-emergent and a soil test coming up, and a weekly mowing schedule that repeats every season.
YardLedger
Your yard
Care
Today1
Upcoming2
Recurring1
Built for homeowners who care for their own yards — not lawn-care businesses. No crews, routing, or invoicing, just your lawn.
Why, not just what
Every YardLedger-generated task explains why it was recommended.
“Feed now because your Bermuda is coming out of dormancy and it's been nine weeks” beats a notification that just says fertilize. Follow the plan as it comes, or change it — either way you know what the reasoning was, and nothing the assistant proposes reaches your schedule until you approve it.
- No task fires on its own, and no product is applied because an app decided it was time
- Per-application nitrogen ceilings and grass-specific annual budgets shape every feeding
- The product label always has the final word — the assistant keeps saying so
Where the numbers come from
Named sources you can go and check.
These are the upstream services your schedule actually calls. Not “powered by data” — the four you can click through to and verify yourself.
Built on real data, not guesswork
Real forecasts, not a calendar
Watering targets and alerts run on your real forecast and recent rainfall — NOAA National Weather Service readings blended over Open-Meteo, not a fixed calendar.
USDA hardiness zone
Your ZIP resolves to a USDA plant hardiness zone — which grasses survive your winter — and to long-term freeze normals that shift the seasonal windows in your schedule. Soil texture is estimated from USDA SSURGO soil maps.
Agronomy-based guidance
Recommendations follow established turf-care and cooperative-extension best practices, not generic tips.
Agronomic guardrails built in
Per-application nitrogen guardrails, grass-specific annual budgets, and product spacing shape every feeding recommendation — and your local fertilizer rules and the product label set the actual legal rate and timing.
Built around your schedule
When to fertilize, water, mow, and treat.
YardLedger turns your grass type, location, and the weather into a month-by-month plan. On the paid tiers it can also alert you when the weather opens, closes, or shifts a task window.
When to fertilize
Feeding windows timed to your grass type, soil tests, and local season — with nitrogen rates that follow your grass's own annual budget rather than one blanket number.
How much to water
A weekly watering target built from recent rainfall and the forecast, so you soak deeply when it counts and skip it when rain has you covered.
How often to mow
Mowing reminders that follow your grass's real growth through the season instead of a fixed weekly calendar.
When to apply pre-emergent
A heads-up on the pre-emergent and weed-control window for your region before crabgrass and weeds break through.
What's included
Everything you need to plan and track lawn care.
From the first mow of spring to diagnosing a brown patch in August, YardLedger has a place for it.
16 care event types
Log mowing, fertilizing, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, growth regulators, watering, seeding, aerating, dethatching, topdressing, soil tests, and more — all with custom details.
Multi-zone properties
Divide your yard into zones, each with its own grass type, sun exposure, and irrigation settings.
Photo timeline
Attach photos to any event and compare your yard's progress side-by-side over weeks and months.
AI Yard Assistant
Chat with an AI that knows your yard's history, location, and grass type to diagnose problems and build plans.
Schedule & calendar
See your whole plan in a visual calendar or sortable timeline, and sync scheduled tasks to Google Calendar and Outlook (Plus+).
Equipment & materials
Track your mowers, sprayers, fertilizers, and chemicals with application rates and purchase receipts.
Yard Assistant
AI guidance that uses your lawn’s context.
The Yard Assistant doesn't give generic advice. It reads your full care history, your location, and your grass type to generate plans that are specific to your yard and explainable. Always check product labels yourself before applying anything — the assistant is a starting point, not a substitute for the label.
- ✓Upload photos to diagnose problems
- ✓Ask questions in plain English
- ✓Generate multi-week care plans
- ✓Review and approve before scheduling
Yard Assistant
Zone mapping
Draw your zones on a satellite map.
Set up your yard by tracing zones directly on a live satellite view of your property. YardLedger calculates the area automatically and stores each zone with its own grass type, sun exposure, and irrigation settings.
- ✓Draw front yard, back yard, and side zones separately
- ✓Automatic area calculation in square feet, acres, square meters, or hectares
- ✓Per-zone grass type, sun exposure, and irrigation
This week's watering
Your lawn is ~0.6" short this week after recent heat and light rain. A deep soak Friday closes the gap.
Rain (7d)
0.3″
Target
1.0″
Forecast
Dry
Weather intelligence
Know when and how much to water.
YardLedger turns the forecast into action. It tracks recent rainfall, the week ahead, and your own logged waterings to estimate how much water your lawn is short — and proactively warns you about frost, drift-risk spray days, and rain you should water around. It is a weather-informed estimate, not a measurement: check the lawn and the soil, and a catch-can test turns the estimate into minutes that match what your own sprinklers actually put down.
- ✓Smart watering target tuned to your grass, season, and climate
- ✓Proactive alerts (Plus+): water now, frost, skip-watering, spray windows
- ✓Connect your own weather station for readings from your yard (Plus+)
AI does the data entry
Snap a receipt. Skip the typing.
Upload a photo or PDF of a receipt, soil-test report, or product label and YardLedger pulls out the details for you — N-P-K values, costs, lab results — then lets you review before anything is saved.
- ✓Product labels → name, brand, and N-P-K analysis
- ✓Soil tests → lab, results, and recommendations
- ✓Receipts → purchase cost captured automatically
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Extracted by Yard Assistant
- Product
- Lawn Starter Fertilizer
- Brand
- GreenGro
- N-P-K
- 24-25-4
- Form
- Granular
Simple by design
How it works
Set up your yard
Add your property address, draw zones on a map, and tell us your grass type and sun exposure.
Get your schedule
YardLedger builds a weather-aware, month-by-month plan for your yard — when to fertilize, water, mow, and treat — tuned to your grass type and location.
Track it and stay on top
Log what you do, get smart reminders for what's next, and ask the AI Yard Assistant any time. You stay in control — review and approve anything it proposes before it lands in your plan.
Simple pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you're ready.
Each plan has clear caps on properties, photos, and AI credits — shown up front so nothing surprises you later. Upgrade any time to unlock more.
Free · Keep Track
Free
Unlimited logging, your personalized seasonal schedule, the calendar and timeline views, and frost, sprinkler and pre-emergent alerts.
- ✓Unlimited care event logging
- ✓Text chat with the Yard Assistant (1 credit per message)
- ✓Image diagnosis (3 credits per message with a photo)
- ✓Calendar & timeline views
5 credits every month (15 in your first) — about 5 questions or 1 photo diagnosis.
- Properties
- 1
- yard
- Photos
- 30
- total
- AI credits
- 5
- per month · 15 first
Plus · Stay Ahead
$5/mo
or $50/year
Save $10/yr on annual — 17% off, like 2 months free
At $5 a month, it costs less than most bags of lawn fertilizer.
Adds the day-to-day weather-aware alerts — when to water, when to skip for rain, when a spray window is safe — plus calendar sync, sprinkler calibration, growing-degree-day (GDD) tracking, and your own weather station.
- ✓Unlimited care event logging
- ✓Text chat with the Yard Assistant
- ✓Image diagnosis (upload a photo for AI analysis)
- ✓Calendar Sync
- ✓Smart Alerts
- ✓Infrastructure
- ✓Sprinkler Calibration
- ✓GDD Tracking
- ✓Weather Stations
150 credits every month — roughly 150 questions or 37 photo diagnoses, with heavier plans and stronger models costing more per message.
- Properties
- 2
- yards
- Photos
- 100
- total
- AI credits
- 150
- per month
Pro · Every Yard
$12/mo
or $100/year
Save $44/yr on annual — 31% off
At $12 a month, it costs less than most single professional lawn treatments.
Everything in Stay Ahead, with custom PGR intervals, advanced GDD models, and room for up to 10 yards.
- ✓Unlimited care event logging
- ✓Text chat with the Yard Assistant
- ✓Image diagnosis (upload a photo for AI analysis)
- ✓Custom PGR Interval
600 credits every month — roughly 600 questions or 150 photo diagnoses, with heavier plans and stronger models costing more per message.
Costs more than Stay Ahead because it carries 10 yards instead of 2, 600 AI credits instead of 150, and every paid feature switched on — it's built for someone looking after a rental, a parent's yard, or a whole street.
- Properties
- 10
- yards
- Photos
- 500
- total
- AI credits
- 600
- per month
Questions
Frequently asked
Is YardLedger free?
Yes. The free plan lets you log unlimited care events, build a personalized schedule, and use the calendar and timeline views — no credit card required. Paid plans add calendar sync, smart weather alerts, more properties and photos, and extra Yard Assistant credits.
Will it work for my grass type?
Yes. YardLedger tailors your plan to your specific grass — warm-season types like Bermuda, Zoysia, and St. Augustine, and cool-season types like Tall Fescue and Kentucky Bluegrass — so feeding, mowing, and weed-control timing match how your lawn actually grows.
Does it account for my region and climate?
Yes. Your schedule starts from your grass type and long-term freeze normals for your area — your USDA hardiness zone is an adaptation check and a coarse index into those normals, not the timing engine on its own — and your watering guidance uses recent rainfall and the local forecast. So the timing shifts with your climate instead of following a generic national calendar. Dates are planning estimates: what the lawn is actually doing, and the product label, still come first.
Will it tell me when to apply pre-emergent?
Yes. YardLedger flags the pre-emergent and weed-control window for your grass type and region before crabgrass and other weeds break through, and reminds you when it's time to act.
Can I sync my schedule to my calendar?
Yes, on the Plus plan and above. Scheduled tasks can sync to Google Calendar, Outlook, and Apple Calendar (iCal), so your lawn plan lives alongside the rest of your week.
How is this different from other lawn apps?
Two things, and both are ones you can check rather than take on trust. First, you stay in control: the Yard Assistant proposes, and nothing it proposes is added to your schedule until you approve it. Second, the guidance names its sources — NOAA National Weather Service and Open-Meteo for weather, USDA SSURGO for your soil, and the USDA hardiness-zone map for your region — each one linked at the top of this page and on our About page, so you can open it and check for yourself. We also don't sell fertilizer, run affiliate links, or take a cut of anything you buy, so nothing in your plan is there because it earns us money.
Is the AI advice safe to follow?
The Yard Assistant works to established turf-care limits — per-application nitrogen ceilings and grass-specific annual budgets rather than one blanket number — and explains the reasoning behind a plan. It proposes; you approve every task before anything is scheduled, and a plan that would schedule a feeding inside an earlier product's release window is flagged for you to review. The product label is always the authoritative instruction, and the assistant keeps pointing you back to it.
Take YardLedger to the yard.
Your dashboard, weather, watering guidance, and push reminders in your pocket — log events right where you're standing.
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