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My Garden Pal Upgrades
As a valued member of My Garden Pal we would like to give you the opportunity to have your say in which features or improvements are in the next upgrade to the My Garden Pal application.

Let us know what you would like to see incorporated into the next release by emailing us here using "information" as the category.

Some of the new features and improvements we are planning so far include:
  • Plant Usage - an additional tab where you will be able to describe what the plant is used for.  For example, Medicinal, Food, Wind Break, Privacy Screen, Green manure, Chop & Drop, Animal Forage, Nitrogen Fixing, Over Story/Under Story, Pest Control, and whatever else you want to see added here!
  • Companion Planting - A section detailing companion plants. Clicking on the companion plant will search the MGP web site for plant information to download
  • Plant sexuality selection list:
    • Hermaphrodite - only hermaphrodite plants with flowers that have both male and female parts
    • Monoecious - only monoecious plants, that is plants have separate male and female flowers on the same plant
    •  Dioecious - only dioecious plants, all plants are either female or male.
    • Dioecious - only dioecious plants, all plants are either female or male.
    • Gynodioecious - both female and hermaphrodite plants present.
    • Gynoecy - plants are all females in a population, often regulated by environmental factors like temperature, photo period or water availability
    • Polygamous - when there is a mix of hermaphrodite and unisexual plants in the natural population
    • Polygamodioecious, - having bisexual and male flowers on some plants, and bisexual and female flowers on others.
  • Add a reminder for sow seasons
  • Add in a harvest tab in the reminders so you can set a date for harvesting by the location of your plant
  • Web forms to edit your online plant list directly without needing to run the MGP application
  • Synchronise your desktop program to the list of plants you have on the My Garden Pal webste