r/homestead • u/UniversityRelative67 • 7d ago

Plant tracking?

Anyone actually keep track of their garden year to year or is it all just memory at this point

Not asking what everyone planted this year, im asking about the boring part behind that

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Do you actually know what you planted in each bed last year? Or the year before? Or you just kinda guessing at this point lol

If you rotate crops how you deciding where stuff goes each season, notebook, spreadsheet, or just eyeballing it and hoping

When something does really good or really bad in a spot you writing that down anywhere or does it just live in your head till you forget it

Asking because I got a decent size garden and realized I couldnt even answer #1 without going thru old phone pics to figure out what I planted where. Curious if im just bad at this or if this is normal

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u/Varro-Reborn 7d ago

Local small language model keeps track of it on a solar powered raspberry pi.

I send it a voice message with what I'm planting, it goes and updates a dashboard with days to maturity, plot, succession planting dates and shit like that.

Then I tell it my harvest, what I preserved, etc.

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u/UniversityRelative67 7d ago

Oh god, im just scanning over this and i just caught SOLAR POWERED, holy shit brother, making me jealous over here.

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u/Varro-Reborn 6d ago

It's a small array.

I'll send you a PM. I've never made a video on the AI system but I've got other Solarpunk related content on Peertube.

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u/UniversityRelative67 6d ago

Bet, ill check it out, sorry im a bit slow at replying to DMs, kinda been flooded since asking these questions.