🚀 plannt.ca Release Notes — June 2024

Take matters into your own hands 🙌

Ah, June.

Only a few weeks ago, we were transplanting our seedlings to the garden. And now look where we are!

Gorgeous tomato plants in our home garden.

You may notice that this month’s improvement list is shorter than usual. No need for concern!

These updates, although easy to capture in a few sentences, required hours of building, validating, and testing to prove them out before deployment.

Only the best for our gardeners 💚

🎉 What’s Improved

Homegrown Emails: It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally given our third-party email provider the boot.

We want to have full control over our user data, and we need full system access in order to quickly identify and respond to service interruptions.

All of our automated emails now come directly from plannt.ca. In parallel with this massive overhaul, we also freshened up our email templates and streamlined their content.

Alert icons identify late crops that are colliding with planned succession crops.

Crop Timeline Flexibility: We tweaked some logic that affects how crop timelines behave in the Yard.

• If a crop is extra late in reaching the harvest stage, its last day in-ground as shown on its Crop Timeline in the Yard will continue extending to today’s date. The timeline will continue extending until you mark it as removed by completing its Harvesting task. When the timeline of a late crop begins to collide with a succession crop, small “alert” icons will appear on affected patches to warn you to take a closer look.
• You can now start a new crop in-ground on the same day that a crop has been removed, whereas before you would have seen an error message. We found this one out when we harvested our radishes and immediately planted some spinach!

📣 What’s Coming Soon

Yard: We’re working on some nice-to-have features that will make it easier to navigate around your virtual garden map.

That’s it for this month’s release notes! We hope you barely even notice the changes, which means that we did our job to roll them out as smoothly as possible 😊

As always, we’re here if you have any questions or feedback. Keep on growing!

The plannt.ca Team 🌱