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give your garden a better chance of succeeding with some advanced planning the iOS grow planner app costs $8 but will save you time and money by eliminating the guesswork of what where and when to plant once you sketch out your Gardens dimensions on your device choose the plants you'd like to grow the app will use your location data to tell you when to put the plants in the ground and how far apart to space them this sprouted app also relies on your zip code to provide that best recommendations for growing vegetables herbs and fruit in your garden find out what will thrive when to plant and harvest them and even recipes for enjoying the fruits of your labor and finally if you seek inspiration from other gardens where unsure about the species snap a photo and let the iOS app like that garden or Android app flower checker do the work like that garden is a free download and will cross-check your photos with its database to identify plants and flowers flower checker relies on real people to determine a species so each query costs a dollar in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News