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Your garden and lawn water themselves

Pair a soil sensor with a smart valve. Flip one switch. Garzed waters when your soil is dry and stops when it's right.

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How it works

Everything you grow, orchestrated

Garzed monitors the soil in each area continuously. When one drops below target, it fires that valve in short pulses, checks again, and stops when the soil is right.

Monitoring 2 areas

Area 1

Tomatoes

Status

In range

Full Auto · watching

Area 2

Peppers

Status

In range

Full Auto · watching

The whole system, in depth

Calibration that measures each area's soil capacity, watering ranges set by what's planted, weather, the season calendar, and Garzed Bot — each with real screenshots of the app doing it.

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Where Garzed fits

Most gardens and lawns are watered on a schedule that doesn't know what the soil is doing. Garzed adds the missing layer — sensor data and plant intelligence — on top of the hardware you already use.

What you're comparing

Hose timerWaters on a clock

Smart sprinkler controllerRachio, B-hyve, Hunter

Sensor watering systemsNetro, Moen, RainPoint

Garzed+ a soil sensor

How it decides to water

The clock

Weather forecasts

Soil reading vs a level you choose

Soil reading vs a target it measured

Who sets the moisture target

—

You, by trial and error

Measured per area, tuned to what's planted

When watering stops

After the minutes you set

At a level you set

At the area's measured soil capacity

What you buy

The timer

The controller

Their sensor + their controller

A soil sensor kit (about $50) for the Rachio you have

Schedules, rain skip, app control

Schedules only

✓

Sensor watering systems do water from a soil reading. The differences are who sets the target - Netro, Moen and RainPoint act on a moisture level you pick and tune, while Garzed measures each area's soil capacity and derives its target from what's planted - and that they pair their own sensor with their own controller, while Garzed works with the Rachio and Ecowitt gear you choose. Hunter Hydrawise takes wired soil sensors, with wire runs from each area back to the controller.

Hardware

Two pieces of hardware per area

Off-the-shelf gear you can buy on Amazon. Pair one of each per area and Garzed handles the rest. See everything Garzed works with →

Ecowitt

WH51 or WH52 soil sensor

+ GW2000 or GW3000 gateway

Stake one in each area. Reads soil moisture every 15 minutes and sends it to Garzed. The WH52 is a 3-in-1 that also measures soil temperature and EC.

Rachio

Smart Hose Timer or Rachio 3

A battery hose timer, or a wired Rachio 3 controller running your zones

Garzed fires it in short pulses when an area's soil drops below target, then checks again.

More integrations coming

Pricing

Pick the plan that fits your setup

Garzed is currently invite-only. Request access below — paid plans include a 30-day free trial when your invite arrives.

Free

Try it on a small area

$0forever

Up to 3 areas, 1 sensor each
Pair sensors, valves & weather stations
Manual & scheduled watering
— No Full Auto watering
Calendar, weather & rain skips
Garzed Bot — 5 messages/day

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Limited · First 50

Founding Member

Best value, locked for life

$29/year

Locked rate for life — yours even if you cancel and come back

Everything in Free, plus:

Up to 100 areas, up to 100 sensors
Full Auto watering on up to 24 areas (pulse-and-check)
Garzed Bot — 50 messages/day
Photo diagnosis — 20 photos/day
Every future feature included

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Pro

Everything, no limits

$39/year

or $4.99/month

Everything in Free, plus:

Up to 100 areas, up to 100 sensors
Full Auto watering on up to 24 areas (pulse-and-check)
Garzed Bot — 50 messages/day
Photo diagnosis — 20 photos/day

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FAQ

Common questions

Can I use Garzed without any smart hardware?

Yes. With no hardware, Garzed is your garden's planner and record — areas and plants, crop compatibility, the planting calendar, harvest projections, the journal, and manual watering logs. A soil sensor adds live readings and a measured soil capacity per area; a smart valve adds watering you can run from the app. See Works With for the supported models.

What if I already have a Rachio sprinkler controller (or Hunter, Orbit, etc.)?

If it's a Rachio 3, you're set — Garzed fires its individual zones based on each area's soil moisture. That's the one sprinkler controller we support today; Hunter, Orbit, and Rachio's other controllers aren't supported yet, with more on the roadmap.

How long does setup take?

If your hardware is already paired in the Ecowitt and Rachio apps, connecting them to Garzed takes about 10–15 minutes — you copy your API keys from each, and Garzed handles the rest. Hardware installation (mounting sensors, plumbing the valve to your hose) is separate and depends on your setup.

What happens after the 30-day free trial?

Nothing is charged, because there's no card on file. Your account moves to the Free plan and your gardens, areas, and history all stay exactly as they were. To keep Pro, activate in Settings any time during the trial or after it — if you activate before it ends, your remaining free days still count and the first charge waits until they're up.

Is my data private?

Yes. Your sensor readings, photos, and chat history stay private to your account. We don't sell user data and we don't use it for advertising. See our Privacy Policy for full details.

From the founder

Why I built Garzed

I put my garden hose on a Rachio smart valve so I'd stop walking down to water every day. The schedule worked — but I never knew if my plants were getting the right amount. Some areas got soaked, others stayed dry.

After a season of that, I went looking for something better: a system that would water based on what the soil actually needed. The closest things I found used a soil sensor to skip a scheduled run; anything that really watered from the soil was a wired commercial setup — sensors and pumps you have to install in the ground.

I just wanted my hose, my valve, and a sensor in the dirt to all talk to each other. So I started building it. Garzed is what I wanted for my own garden: it watches your soil moisture, waters in short pulses, checks again, and stops when it's right. No commercial install, no schedule guessing.

— Brad Ferrada

Founder, Garzed