Frequently Asked Questions

Percy is a voice-first garden journal that remembers your garden for you. You hold a button, say what you notice (what you planted, what’s blooming, what’s struggling), and Percy organizes it all automatically. Over time, it learns your garden’s patterns and gives you advice based on your actual history, not generic zone information.

Think of it as a companion for your garden. Not a dashboard. Not a task manager. A companion that has your back, season after season.

ChatGPT can tell you general gardening advice. So can Google. Percy does something neither of them can: it remembers your garden specifically, across seasons.

ChatGPT doesn’t know that your tomatoes did better in the west bed, that the aphids show up on your roses every May, or that you tried milk spray on the powdery mildew last year and it worked. Percy knows all of that, because you told it. And Percy brings that information back at the right moment, without you having to think to ask.

Generic advice is everywhere. Advice based on what’s actually happened in your garden doesn’t exist anywhere else.

Most garden apps are built around dashboards, task lists, and data entry. You set up plant profiles, log activities, track watering schedules, and manage your garden like a project. You’re the project manager.

Percy flips that. You just talk about what’s happening, and Percy handles the organizing, the pattern recognition, and the remembering. No dashboards. No Gantt charts. No forms to fill out. You’re the gardener. Percy’s got your back.

Not at all. Percy works whether you’ve been gardening for twenty years or just planted your first tomato. You don’t need to use the right terminology or know the Latin name for anything. Just talk naturally about what you see. “Something’s eating my basil” works just as well as “flea beetles on the Genovese basil.”

The less experienced you are, the more valuable Percy becomes over time, because Percy is building a knowledge base about your garden that you haven’t had time to develop on your own yet.

If you can send a text message, you can use Percy. Hold a button, talk, tap “That’s right.” That’s it. No setup, no configurations, no learning curve. We’ve worked hard to make it feel natural, not technical.

If you ever get stuck, email us at hello@percy.garden. We’re happy to help.

No. Use Percy when something notable happens: when you plant something, notice a problem, harvest something you’re excited about, or just want to capture a moment. Even 20 or 30 observations across a season gives you more to work with next year than most gardeners have ever had. There’s no streak to maintain, no guilt if you miss a week, no judgment if you come back after a month. Percy just picks up where you left off.

Anything you notice. Just talk naturally:

• “Planted the Roma tomatoes in the west bed.”
• “The David Austin roses are going absolutely nuts.”
• “Something’s eating the basil. Little holes everywhere.”
• “First zucchini harvest. It’s massive.”
• “Tried neem oil on the aphids today.”
• “Zinnias are stunning this year. Cutting bouquets every week.”

There’s no right or wrong way to say it. If you’d tell a friend, tell Percy. The more you share, the more Percy can help. But even casual, occasional observations add up to something valuable over time.

Yes, and this is one of the things that makes Percy different from any other garden tool. From day one, you can ask Percy questions about your garden and get real answers.

“When did I plant the super sweets?” “Which tomatoes did I say were worth growing again?” “What did I do about the squash bugs?” “How did the garlic do in the raised bed?”

You’re not searching through entries or scrolling a timeline. You’re asking a question and getting a real answer, based on what you’ve actually told Percy about your garden. Three weeks into your first season, you’ll ask something you’ve already forgotten, and Percy will know.

Yes. Just say it out loud, the same way you’d capture any other observation. “Remind me to fertilize these in two weeks.” “I should start the next round of lettuce seeds before this batch bolts.”

Percy will surface a reminder card the next time you open the app when the time is right. No push notifications. No separate reminders app. Just a card that says “You wanted to do this — ready?” You tap it, do the thing, and tell Percy. This is especially useful for succession planting, which experienced gardeners do instinctively but is easy to miss when you’re in the middle of a busy season.

After every voice note, Percy plays back what it understood and asks you to confirm. If it got something wrong, you can correct it right there. If it’s noisy outside and voice isn’t working well, you can type instead. Nothing saves until you say it’s right.

Yes. Voice is the primary interface because it’s faster and more natural when you’re in the garden, but you can type observations anytime. Both work the same way.

Your first season, Percy captures and organizes your observations, remembers what you’re planning, and gives you a garden memory you can actually talk to. Ask questions, get real answers, and close the loop on the things you said you wanted to do. At the end of the season, you get your first Migration Report: a year-in-review of everything that happened. Percy is good from day one. It becomes great over time.

Starting in year two. Once Percy has a full season of observations, Percy can start connecting dots: reminding you when seasonal patterns line up with last year, suggesting what worked before, and flagging recurring issues. By year three, with multiple seasons of data, the pattern recognition gets genuinely powerful.

We’re upfront about this because we think honesty matters more than hype.

At the end of each growing season, Percy creates a year-in-review of your garden: your most-mentioned plants, your seasonal timeline, challenges you overcame, and patterns worth watching. Think of it as your garden’s annual story, written for you automatically from your voice notes.

Starting in year two, Migration Reports include year-over-year comparisons showing what improved, what changed, and what patterns are emerging.

Your first Migration Report will be available Winter 2026.

Starting in year two, yes, but only based on your garden’s patterns, not generic gardening calendars. For example: “Last year cabbage worms showed up the first week of June. Might be worth adding row cover this week.”

These seasonal reminders are gentle suggestions, not demands. Easy to dismiss. Easy to turn off entirely if you prefer. Helpful friend, not nagging parent.

Yes. Your observations are yours. No ads, no selling your data, no social feed, no sharing your garden with anyone unless you choose to. Percy is a private tool for you and your garden.

Your observations are stored securely in the cloud so they sync across devices (web app now, iOS app when it launches). You can export or delete your data anytime.

No. Your observations are used only to help you: to parse what you say into organized data, to surface patterns in your garden, and to generate your Migration Report. We don’t use your observations to train models or share them with third parties. Your garden is yours.

Your data is always exportable. If we ever had to shut down (we don’t plan to), we’d give you plenty of notice and make sure you can take everything with you. We’re building Percy as a sustainable business, not a venture-backed startup racing to an exit. The goal is to be around for decades, not years.

Not yet. Photo attachments are on the roadmap. For now, Percy focuses on voice and text observations. We’d rather do one thing well than do three things halfway.

Percy is currently a web app that works in your mobile browser. For the best experience on iPhone, you can add it to your home screen: open percy.garden in Safari, tap the share button, and tap “Add to Home Screen.” It’ll work like a native app.

A true native iOS app is launching Spring 2026. All your observations will transfer automatically.

Not yet. Multi-garden support is on the roadmap. For now, if you have multiple spaces (raised beds, containers on the deck, a community plot), just mention the location when you talk: “south bed,” “pots on the patio,” “community garden.” Percy organizes by location automatically.

Not yet. Percy is currently designed as a private tool for one gardener. If you garden with a partner, you can both use the same account for now. Shared access and collaboration features may come later based on demand.

Voice input needs an internet connection for speech recognition. But if your signal is spotty, you can type observations and they’ll sync when you’re back online.

We’re building Percy deliberately, guided by feedback from real gardeners:

• Migration Report (Winter 2026)
• Native iOS app (Spring 2026)
• Photo attachments (coming soon)
• Multi-garden support (coming soon)

Have ideas for what Percy should do? We’d love to hear from you: hello@percy.garden

Percy is free for your first growing season. Full access, nothing locked or degraded, no credit card required. Sign up in spring or early summer and you’re free through December 31. Sign up any other time and you get a minimum of 90 days free. After your free season, it’s $20/year. That’s less than a packet of heirloom tomato seeds for a full year of pattern recognition, seasonal reminders, and advice based on your garden’s history.

When your season wraps up, Percy will deliver your first Migration Report and invite you to continue with a subscription. If you’re not ready to subscribe, your observations don’t disappear. You’ll have read-only access to everything you captured, and you can export it anytime. If you come back next spring, you can pick up right where you left off.

Then we’d rather invite you to try again next spring than ask you to subscribe. Percy gets more valuable the more you use it, and a handful of observations isn’t enough to show you what Percy can do. Come back when the growing season starts and give it another go. Still free.

No. Just create an account and start using Percy. We won’t ask for payment until your free season ends.

Yes. No contracts, no cancellation fees. If Percy isn’t working for you, you can cancel anytime and export your data.

Yes. If Percy isn’t for you, email hello@percy.garden within 30 days of your first payment for a full refund, no questions asked.

Email us at hello@percy.garden. We’ll work something out.