Green Beret to Green Fingers.

Chris Burden served in the Royal Marines Commando. An injury in service ended that career at 27, and the medical discharge that followed left a hole where the structure and purpose of service had been. The way back started small: a window box of chillies and peppers, kept going because something had to be kept going.

It grew. A window box became beds, then a greenhouse, then a whole sanctuary garden — dahlias, an arch, a stone path, the whole of it. Gardening had done something that no appointment had: it gave the day a shape, and gave him something that answered back when he turned up for it.

Grow Pro is the app he went looking for and could not find. Not a search engine with leaves on, but a plan that knows his postcode, his soil and his zones — and tells him what to do this month, and why. He is building it in the open, with the paid parts waiting on a waiting list until they are worth paying for.