The past month and a half I've been spending my time not making cheese (I know, boo!), but developing a website to help gardeners and plant growers (yay!).The basic premise is this: I usually don't know when I should do something, like fertilize, transplant, etc. So this website pulls environmental data, weather data, average temperature, and compares it to what plants you have, and creates a custom 'care schedule'. It will then email you the day before you need to do something as a reminder.
I only have ~200 plants in the database right now, but more are being added. And it only really works in the US so far, as I haven't been able to find repositories of international weather data. But I've been using it for a week or so now and I'm pretty amazed at how well it can predict what I should do (at least for this part of the country).
So if you are interested in trying it out, and hopefully giving me an earful of feedback, check out Plantacious.
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ReplyDeleteThanks!
ReplyDeleteThis is the coolest thing I've seen all week. I'm rotten at remembering to get things in the ground!
ReplyDeleteThat is *precisely* why i'm putting this together. I've killed two houseplants recently cause I thought to myself, "I haven't fertilized these recently...." when I actually have. I just hope it's accurate :)
ReplyDeleteIt takes the (averageHigh+averageLow)/2, then compares that against actual forecasted weather and a plants environmental needs to figure out when to plant. Lots of bugs still to work out though, but I am using it personally with this years garden, so I really am 'eating my own dogfood'.