Question 1

What is The Estate Potager?

Accepted Answer

A private garden house for estates, kitchen gardens and edible landscapes, from a terrace of herbs to a hundred acres. It keeps the memory of a garden: what grew where, what the soil did, what reached the table, year after year. We record and advise; you or your gardener source, plant and buy.

Question 2

How is this different from a planting app or a vegetable planner?

Accepted Answer

Most tools plan one season and forget it. The Estate Potager is built around multi-year bed memory: every bed is readable across years, crops and yields, and the Rotation Guard uses that history to warn when a crop family returns too soon. The intelligence is the record, not the plant identification.

Question 3

Who is it for?

Accepted Answer

Owners of country houses with gardeners, chefs and a PA; families with a kitchen garden; and ambitious growers who want the estate standard. It suits a head gardener handing work to a contractor as well as an owner who gardens on Saturdays.

Question 4

Do the AI voices invent anything?

Accepted Answer

No. Each of the five voices is an AI persona, openly labelled, and works only from the records stored in your account. They never invent weather, live telemetry, suppliers, prices, yields, certifications or provenance, and they make no medicinal or health claims. Every answer ends with one concrete next action for you or your gardener to take.

Question 5

Does it tell me the weather or read my soil sensors?

Accepted Answer

It does not. There is no live telemetry and no invented weather. Weather and frost notes are records you keep, and the calendar, frost briefs and rotation warnings are computed from those stored dates and your own region.

Question 6

How does the Rotation Guard work?

Accepted Answer

Every planting is filed under a crop family. When you place a family in a bed it has grown within the last three years, the Soil Room raises a warning and shows that bed’s family history by year, so you can decide with the evidence in front of you rather than from memory.

Question 7

What is the Succession Engine?

Accepted Answer

A sowing schedule built from your own frost dates. Instead of one sowing of beans in May, it sets out a series of sowings across the season so the kitchen meets a continuous harvest rather than a glut followed by nothing.

Question 8

Can it plan a menu for a date in the future?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The Soil-to-Table Matrix works forward from the harvest windows already in your ledger, so you can ask what will be ready in ten days, what will be abundant, and what should be preserved this week. It advises on what is growing; it never invents a supply you do not have.

Question 9

What happens when a gardener leaves?

Accepted Answer

The Garden Handover Brief is a printable brief drawn from the ledger: beds, rotation, soil, water, trees, seeds and the season’s intentions. It is printed by you, and it exists so that thirty years of knowledge does not leave in a van.

Question 10

Is my garden data private?

Accepted Answer

Your records are private to your account. Only you, and anyone you invite, can read them. We do not publish, sell or share your garden’s records, and we do not collect passports, identity documents or signatures.

Question 11

Are there monthly plans?

Accepted Answer

No. There is the Seasonal Plot at $290 for one season, The Estate at $1,200 per year, and The Heirloom Plot at $4,500 once for life. Nothing is billed monthly.

Question 12

Does it value my trees, harvest or land?

Accepted Answer

It does not. Any figure that appears is illustrative and labelled as such. The Estate Potager gives no tax, valuation, offset-credit or investment advice, and the Heirloom Garden Registry is a record of intention and family memory, not a legal will; consult a solicitor for anything binding.

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