Garden Tools
The Academy teaches you how soil works. These are the tools that let you use it — identify what’s in your garden, diagnose what’s wrong, mix the right soil, run a practice worm bin, and figure out exactly how much castings to use. All free, all hands-on, all a little bit nerdy.
Plant Guides
Every plant in the Living Root Garden guide, searchable and browsable — hundreds of growing guides with varieties, real photos, and Florida notes. Find your plant, then grow it like you mean it.
What’s This?
Snap a photo of a plant, pest, or critter in your garden and find out what it is. The photo ID tool covers garden plants, pests, diseases, and birds — and it has jokes ready for the things that definitely aren’t plants.
Plant Doctor
Plant triage: pick your symptoms, get the most likely pests, diseases, and deficiencies ranked — with honest fixes.
Can We Plant Together?
Pick two plants — garden besties, sworn enemies, or just neighbors? 54 crops checked, science labeled.
Soil Mix Builder
Pick your goal — seed starting, potting, or raised beds — and get a castings-centered recipe with a batch scaler. No bagged-mix guesswork, no mystery ingredients: every mix carries worm castings for living biology.
Bed Planner
Set your bed size, pick a crop, and drag it onto the grid to mock up your bed — square-foot spacing, planting windows for your zone, and neighbor intel for every crop.
Worm Bin Simulator
Two pounds of African nightcrawlers. One bin. Your job: keep them alive, feed them right, and harvest castings before the bin teaches you a lesson. The closest thing to running a real bin without the smell — and it teaches the real rules.
Herb Finder
Search 276 medicinal plants and their varieties by what they’re traditionally used for, then read the profile and the growing guide. The Big List of Herbs, made searchable.
Know Your Castings
Every harvest gets a lot number and a traceable certificate. Enter the code on your box to see when your castings were harvested, what the worms ate, and the test numbers — and if you mistype it, the worms will let you know.
Castings Calculator
How much castings do you actually need? Tell it where you grow — houseplants, beds, containers — and it works out the amount, so you don’t guess and don’t overdo it. It lives on the Worm Castings 101 page.