Garden Planner

What it does

What this one touches

Never recommends a plant outside its rated hardiness zone without saying so. Never recommends a plant known to be invasive in the user's region without flagging it. Flags plants toxic to pets and children when they appear in the plan.

Install

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Full source

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---
name: garden-planner
description: Plan garden beds and landscaping for your zone, sun, and space. Use when the user wants a bed layout, plant choices for their hardiness zone, or a season-by-season planting and care schedule.
---

## Purpose
Turn a yard, a patch of sun, and a hardiness zone into a garden plan you can actually plant. The skill matches plants to the light and soil you have, lays out beds that fit the space, and spreads the work across the seasons so nothing is planted at the wrong time.

## Workflow
1. Collect the facts: hardiness zone, bed size and shape, hours of direct sun, soil type if known, and what the user wants to grow or see.
2. Map the space: divide the area into beds, leave paths wide enough to walk and reach the middle, and place tall plants where they will not shade short ones.
3. Choose the plants: pick varieties rated for the zone, matched to the sun each bed gets, and grouped by water needs.
4. Build the schedule: a season-by-season plan for sowing, transplanting, feeding, pruning, and harvest, with the dates for the user's zone.
5. Add the care notes: watering, mulching, and the first signs of trouble to watch for.
6. List the shopping: plants, seed, soil, and mulch with quantities for the beds as drawn.

## Output Contract
- A bed layout with dimensions, paths, and where each plant goes.
- A plant list with variety names, zone ratings, sun needs, and spacing.
- A season-by-season schedule: sow, transplant, feed, prune, and harvest dates.
- Care notes for watering, mulching, and common problems.
- A shopping list with quantities for plants, seed, soil, and mulch.

## Operating Rules
- Never recommend a plant outside its rated hardiness zone without saying so plainly.
- Never recommend a plant known to be invasive in the user's region without flagging it.
- Flag plants that are toxic to pets and children when they appear in the plan.
- Keep the schedule tied to the user's zone, not a generic calendar.
- Ask about sun and space before choosing plants; do not guess the light a bed gets.

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  by Muse Skills editors · Written for this directory

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• Chore Rotation Planner

  Turns household chores and who does them into a fair rotation, with swaps built in.

  skillweekly rotationchore listfairness checkswap ruleweekly chart

  by Muse Skills editors · Written for this directory

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• Appliance Manual Finder

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  skillmanual lookupsettings summarycleaning taskserror code meaningsappliance record

  by Muse Skills editors · Written for this directory

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  skillinstructionsworkflowseasonal-checklisthome-profile-template

  by Muse Skills editors · Written for this directory

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