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To do, log and problems

What needs doing in your garden (watering, tasks, the vegetable garden plan), the weather and night frost, the nature score, the flowering calendar, the log with photos, reporting and solving problems, the guide to diseases and pests, reporting fireblight to the FASFC, good for wildlife and the reminder every morning.

Every kind of garden (on the map, a vegetable garden or indoors) has the same sections for keeping track of what happens: To do, the log, Good for wildlife and Reminders and sharing. Everyone you share the garden with can see what has been done and what still needs doing.

#To do

Every garden has a To do section (indoors: Watering and care), with what needs doing over the next four weeks. In a vegetable garden and indoors it’s at the top; in a garden on the map it’s below the plants. What’s in it?

• watering: plants and crops for which you’ve filled in how often they need water (see Placing plants, Indoors and Vegetable garden);
• your own tasks;
• the steps of your vegetable garden plan: sowing indoors, sowing, planting out and harvesting.

Whatever is due today is labelled today; anything late, overdue. Whatever comes later is in your calendar.

#Weather and frost

If your garden has a location (on the map, or a vegetable garden with an address), it has a Weather section: seven days with the lowest and highest temperature and the rain. Indoors there’s no weather.

• Night frost: if, in the next three nights, it gets colder than a plant outdoors can take, a warning at the top lists the plants to protect. These are the vegetables and summer flowers that don’t tolerate frost (tomato, courgette, beans, basil…), species such as olive, bay and fig, and plants from the catalogue that are only moderately hardy. Anything still planned, or sown indoors and waiting, isn’t counted.
• In a pot, a plant freezes sooner: Bladwijzer then counts it as 5 °C less hardy. Bring pots indoors or put them against the house wall, and cover the rest with horticultural fleece.
• After rain: if at least 8 mm fell over the last two days, the last day of rain counts as watered outdoors. Watering under To do then moves on. Indoors, or plants under cover? Mark yourself when you watered.

Night frost is also shown at the top of Today on the home page and in your reminder every morning.

#Tasks

1. Under To do, choose Task.
2. Choose the kind of task: watering, feeding, weeding, pruning, mowing, repotting, harvest, maintenance or something else.
3. Write what needs doing, e.g. “Compost on the beds” or “Feed the Swiss cheese plant”.
4. If you like, choose the plant, or leave it at The whole garden.
5. Choose when, and how often the task repeats: once, every day, every 2 or 3 days, every week, every two weeks, every month or every year.
6. Choose Save.

Under All tasks you can see all your tasks, including those further ahead, and edit or delete them. If you tick off a Watering task for a plant, that plant counts as watered straight away.

#The log

The log shows everything that has happened in the garden, newest first:

• updates, maintenance and harvests, with photos;
• watering, sowing, planting and harvesting, as soon as someone marks them;
• tasks that have been done, with the note;
• problems, open or solved;
• jobs completed by a professional, with the report (without the price).

Everyone the garden is shared with can see the log. Choose All, Open problems or All problems to filter, and Show older to look further back. Tap a photo to see it full size.

An entry (with its photos) can be deleted by whoever wrote it, and by the owner of the garden. A fireblight report stays in the log (see Reporting fireblight to the FASFC).

#Writing an update

1. Under the log, choose Update.
2. Choose the type: Update, Maintenance or Harvested.
3. If you like, choose the plant or crop.
4. Write what’s new and add up to 6 photos.
5. Choose Add to log.

If you record a harvest for a crop that hadn’t been harvested yet, it counts as the first harvest in your vegetable garden plan.

#Reporting a problem

Spots on the leaves, aphids, a plant that’s drooping? Bladwijzer helps you work out what it is and what to do about it.

1. Under the log, choose Report a problem (indoors you can also do this on each plant).
2. If you like, choose the plant. Bladwijzer then immediately shows the problems that are common on this plant.
3. Under What do you see?, choose one or more symptoms, e.g. Yellow leaves or Tiny creatures on leaves or stems.
4. Under It could be you’ll find the problems that fit best. Tap one for the explanation, or choose I don’t know.
5. If you like, describe what exactly you see and add photos: that way the others can take a look too.
6. Choose Report.

For each problem you’ll see how serious it usually is (light, moderate or severe), and:

For some problems, such as fireblight or fruit tree canker, it’s best to call in a professional. In that case it says so, with a Request a job button (see Requesting a job). Fireblight must also be reported to the FASFC: see Reporting fireblight to the FASFC.

Everyone in the garden sees the problem in the log and gets a notification. In the log, the problem also shows What can you do?.

#Looking up diseases and pests

Under Diseases and pests (also via Species) you search by what you see: choose one or more symptoms, e.g. Yellow leaves and Tiny creatures on leaves or stems, and you get the possible causes, most likely first. Filter on Pests, Diseases or Care and position, on a group of plants, or on what’s active now.

Each problem has its own page: how to recognise it, the cause, what to do (without poison wherever possible), how to prevent it, the months to watch out and the plants it affects. The page of a tree or shrub also shows Diseases and pests.

#Watch out now

In a garden on the map and a vegetable garden, To do shows Watch out with the month next to your tasks: the diseases and pests active this month on the plants and crops growing there, the most serious first, with the first thing to do. E.g. in May Box tree moth on your box, in August Potato and tomato blight on your tomatoes. Anything still planned isn’t counted.

#Reporting fireblight to the FASFC

In Belgium, fireblight is a regulated plant disease: report any suspicion straight away to the FASFC (the Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain), so they can check whether it really is fireblight and prevent it from spreading. It mainly affects hawthorn, cotoneaster, pyracantha, rowan, pear, apple and quince. Bladwijzer prepares the email for you.

1. Choose Report a problem as described above. For a tree or shrub, Fireblight always appears under It could be as soon as one of the symptoms fits, e.g. Dead or blackened shoot tips.
2. If you choose Fireblight, you’ll see Notifiable. in red: report any suspicion to the FASFC straight away.
3. Choose Report. The Report to the FASFC window opens straight away.
4. Choose Open e-mail to the FASFC: your email program opens with a pre-filled message to [email protected].
5. Add your address and phone number, attach your photos and send the email.

The email already contains the subject Suspected fireblight (notifiable), the plant, the garden, the location (if the garden has one, e.g. your plot on the map), the date, what you see, your description, and your name and email address. Bladwijzer itself sends nothing to the FASFC: the email goes from your own email program.

• No email program? Choose Copy text and paste it into an email to [email protected], or call 0800 13 550 free of charge. Then choose I have already reported it.
• Already reported it some other way? Choose I have already reported it.

As long as nobody has reported it, the problem in the log shows Notifiable. Not yet reported to the FASFC., with a Report to the FASFC button. Anyone who can see the garden can report it, including people with the View role. Once someone chooses Open e-mail to the FASFC or I have already reported it, the log shows Reported to the FASFC with the date and who reported it, so nobody reports it a second time.

• A notifiable problem can’t be deleted. Once it’s over, mark it as solved.
• The Bladwijzer administrators get a notification straight away and follow it up too.

#Solved

Is the problem over? Choose Solved on the problem in the log, with a note if you like (what helped?) and a photo. That goes into the log too, so everyone knows what worked. If the problem comes back, choose Not resolved after all.

Open problems shows what hasn’t been solved yet.

#Nature score

A garden on the map and a vegetable garden have a Nature score: a number from 0 to 100 showing how good your garden is for bees, butterflies, birds and other wildlife. Tap How the score is made up for the points per part:

Each invasive exotic (e.g. cherry laurel, black cherry, Japanese rose) costs 5 points, up to 15. Below the score are a few tips: whatever earns the most points comes first.

Only what’s in your garden counts. If you’ve planned plants (e.g. a border), you also see the score with what’s planned.

#Flowering calendar

A garden on the map and a vegetable garden have a Flowering calendar: for each month, a bar shows how many plants are in flower. Tap a month to see which ones.

• We know when the trees and shrubs from the guide, the garden plants and the flowers in the vegetable garden bloom. Anything still planned is shown hatched, so you can see what a new border will add.
• Oaks, beeches, birches, hazels and other wind-pollinated trees flower inconspicuously. They’re listed, but don’t count as in flower.
• If nothing flowers in a month between March and October, that month is marked. Bees, bumblebees and butterflies then find nothing in your garden. Below, for each empty month, are a few plants that flower then and suit your soil: hardy, not an invasive exotic, preferably native and good for bees and butterflies. What fits here? shows whether they suit a spot.

The flowering months are also shown on the page of every tree and shrub from the guide, under Flowers.

#Good for wildlife

At the bottom of your garden you’ll find Good for wildlife: which animals benefit from your plants, and which plants those are. Bees, bumblebees, butterflies, caterpillars (a food plant), moths, hoverflies, ladybirds, birds, hedgehogs and bats. What does each one mean? See Good for wildlife under species pages.

#Reminders

At the bottom of every garden, Reminders and sharing has Remind me what needs doing:

• Every morning from 8 a.m. (Belgian time) you get one notification with what needs doing that day in your gardens with reminders turned on: watering, tasks, sowing, planting and harvesting. Anything overdue is included too.
• If night frost is expected for plants outdoors, it comes first, with the plants to protect (see Weather and frost). Even when there’s nothing else to do.
• A work day today or tomorrow is in it too, unless you said no.
• If you’ve turned on Notifications by email too under Account, you get the same list by email.
• If there’s nothing to do, you get nothing.
• For your own gardens, reminders are on; for a garden that’s been shared with you, you turn them on yourself.

Everything is also in your calendar and in the calendar feed for Google, Apple and Outlook: your own gardens, and the shared gardens for which you’ve turned on reminders.

#Who can do what?

• Seeing To do and the log: everyone the garden is shared with.
• Marking watered and done, adding tasks, writing updates, reporting and solving problems: the owner, anyone with the Edit role, the tree surgeon and the participants (see Sharing a garden).
• Adding or changing plants, beds and crops: the owner and anyone with the Edit role.
• Reporting fireblight to the FASFC: the owner and everyone the garden is shared with (see above).
• Requesting a job: the owner, anyone with the Edit role, and the participants whom the owner allows to (see Sharing a garden).
• Deleting an entry from the log: whoever wrote it, and the owner. A notifiable problem (fireblight) can’t be deleted: mark it as solved.

Updated on 2026-10-07