.claude/settings.json

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "enabledPlugins": {
+    "frontend-design@claude-plugins-official": true
+  }
+}

web/src/components/gardens/GardenFormModal.tsx

@@ -68,6 +68,14 @@ export function GardenFormModal({ garden, onClose }: { garden?: Garden; onClose:
     setUnit(next)
   }
 
+  // Converted once per render and used by both the submit handler and the
+  // too-fine hint, so the two can never disagree about what was entered.
+  const gridSizeCm = cmFromDisplay(parseFloat(gridSize), unit)
+  // Soft floor: hint, don't refuse. A garden-scale grid this fine is usually
+  // someone reaching for plant spacing, which lives on the bed instead — but it
+  // is a legitimate choice for a very small garden, so the save still goes through.
+  const gridTooFine = Number.isFinite(gridSizeCm) && gridSizeCm > 0 && gridSizeCm < MIN_GARDEN_GRID_CM
+
   async function onSubmit(e: FormEvent) {
     e.preventDefault()
     setFormError(null)
@@ -86,7 +94,6 @@ export function GardenFormModal({ garden, onClose }: { garden?: Garden; onClose:
       setFormError('Width and height must be between 1 cm and 100 m.')
       return
     }
-    const gridSizeCm = cmFromDisplay(parseFloat(gridSize), unit)
     if (!isValidDimensionCm(gridSizeCm)) {
       setFormError('Grid size must be between 1 cm and 100 m.')
       return
@@ -130,10 +137,6 @@ export function GardenFormModal({ garden, onClose }: { garden?: Garden; onClose:
   }
 
   const unitLabel = dimensionUnitLabel(unit)
-  // Soft floor: warn, don't refuse. A sub-4″ garden grid is almost always "1"
-  // typed meaning one foot, but it's a legitimate choice for a tiny garden.
-  const gridEntered = cmFromDisplay(parseFloat(gridSize), unit)
-  const gridTooFine = Number.isFinite(gridEntered) && gridEntered > 0 && gridEntered < MIN_GARDEN_GRID_CM
 
   return (
     <Modal title={isEdit ? 'Edit garden' : 'New garden'} onClose={onClose} busy={pending}>
@@ -201,7 +204,8 @@ export function GardenFormModal({ garden, onClose }: { garden?: Garden; onClose:
           </div>
           {gridTooFine && (
             <p className="mt-1 text-xs text-muted">
-              That's a {formatCm(gridEntered, unit)} grid for the whole garden — did you mean {unitLabel}?
+              {formatCm(gridSizeCm, unit)} is very fine for a whole-garden grid. Plant spacing lives on each bed
+              (Bed grid in the inspector), not here.
             </p>
           )}
         </div>

web/src/editor/GardenCanvas.tsx

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import {
   type Rect,
   type Size,
 } from '@/lib/geometry'
-import { formatCm } from '@/lib/units'
+import { formatCm, type UnitPref } from '@/lib/units'
 import { useCreateObject, useCreatePlanting } from '@/lib/objects'
 import type { Plant } from '@/lib/plants'
 import type { EditorPlanting } from '@/lib/plantings'
@@ -24,8 +24,28 @@ import type { EditorGarden, EditorObject } from './types'
 
 const GRID_MIN_CELL_PX = 6
 const GRID_OPACITY = 0.18
+const OVERLAY_BADGE_CLASS = 'rounded-md bg-surface/80 px-2 py-1 text-xs text-muted backdrop-blur'
 const BED_GRID_MAX_LINES = 200 // safety cap on lines drawn inside one bed
 
+/**
+ * What to tell the user about the grid they're looking at, or null when the
+ * drawn lines are simply the garden's own grid and need no explanation. Two
+ * states are worth naming rather than leaving them to infer: lines drawn every
+ * Nth grid cell (the grid was too fine to draw at this zoom), and — degenerate —
+ * a grid so fine no multiple of it is drawable, which matters most when snapping
+ * is on and would otherwise be invisibly active (#47).
+ */
+function gridNoteFor(
+  drawnCm: number | null,
+  gridCm: number,
+  snapToGrid: boolean,
+  unit: UnitPref,
+): string | null {
+  if (drawnCm == null) return snapToGrid ? 'grid too fine to draw — zoom in' : null
+  if (drawnCm === gridCm) return null
+  return `grid every ${formatCm(drawnCm, unit)}`
+}
+
 /** The world-space bounds rect of an object (center + size → top-left rect). */
 function objectRect(o: EditorObject): Rect {
   return { x: o.xCm - o.widthCm / 2, y: o.yCm - o.heightCm / 2, w: o.widthCm, h: o.heightCm }
@@ -113,16 +133,7 @@ export function GardenCanvas({
   // the drawn lines are a subset of the snap positions, never a different grid.
   const gridCm = garden.gridSizeCm
   const drawnGridCm = visibleGridStepCm(gridCm, viewport.scale, GRID_MIN_CELL_PX)
-  // Two states worth explaining rather than leaving the user to infer: lines that
-  // are every Nth grid cell, and (degenerate) a grid too fine to draw at all.
-  const gridNote =
-    drawnGridCm == null
-      ? garden.snapToGrid
-        ? 'grid too fine to draw — zoom in'
-        : null
-      : drawnGridCm !== gridCm
-        ? `grid every ${formatCm(drawnGridCm, garden.unitPref)}`
-        : null
+  const gridNote = gridNoteFor(drawnGridCm, gridCm, garden.snapToGrid, garden.unitPref)
 
   const sorted = useMemo(() => [...objects].sort((a, b) => a.zIndex - b.zIndex), [objects])
   const rendered = useMemo(
@@ -300,12 +311,8 @@ export function GardenCanvas({
       </svg>
 
       <div className="pointer-events-none absolute left-3 top-3 flex flex-col items-start gap-1">
-        <span className="rounded-md bg-surface/80 px-2 py-1 text-xs text-muted backdrop-blur">
-          {viewport.scale.toFixed(2)} px/cm
-        </span>
-        {gridNote && (
-          <span className="rounded-md bg-surface/80 px-2 py-1 text-xs text-muted backdrop-blur">{gridNote}</span>
-        )}
+        <span className={OVERLAY_BADGE_CLASS}>{viewport.scale.toFixed(2)} px/cm</span>
+        {gridNote && <span className={OVERLAY_BADGE_CLASS}>{gridNote}</span>}
       </div>
       <button
         type="button"

web/src/lib/units.ts

@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ const INCHES_PER_FOOT = 12
 export const MIN_DIMENSION_CM = 1
 export const MAX_DIMENSION_CM = 10_000
 
-// A garden grid finer than this at *dimension* scale is a mis-entry, not a
-// preference (typing "1" in a feet field meaning one foot, and landing on a 1 cm
-// grid). Soft: the form warns, it doesn't refuse.
+// Below this, a garden-scale grid is fine enough to be worth questioning — it
+// usually means someone reached for plant spacing, which belongs to the bed, not
+// the garden. Soft: the form hints, it doesn't refuse.
 export const MIN_GARDEN_GRID_CM = 10
 
 /** Whether a centimeter dimension is within the server's accepted range. */
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ export function isValidDimensionCm(cm: number): boolean {
 }
 
 /** Round away IEEE-754 dust without rounding away precision: 12 × 2.54 is
- *  30.479999999999997 in binary floating point, and 1 nanometer is far below
- *  anything a garden cares about. Every cm column is REAL, so entry stays exact
- *  — this only stops 30.48 from being stored as 30.479999999999997. */
+ *  30.479999999999997 in binary floating point, and the 1e-6 cm (10 nm) grain
+ *  here is far below anything a garden cares about. Every cm column is REAL, so
+ *  entry stays exact — this only stops 30.48 being stored as 30.479999999999997. */
 function roundCm(cm: number): number {
   return Math.round(cm * 1e6) / 1e6
 }