A garden management system including a monitoring device, the monitoring device including a soil sensor a body including a set of ambient environment sensors, a geographic location mechanism, a wireless communication mechanism, a power supply electrically connected to and configured to power the soil sensor, ambient environment sensors, wireless communication mechanism, and geographic location mechanism and a renewable power source electrically connected to and configured to charge the power supply with harvested renewable power and a set of supports connecting the body to an end of the soil sensor, the body cooperatively defining a handle void with the set of supports.