Growstuff - Growstuff

Growstuff is a community of food gardeners. Growstuff's open source and open data platform can predict when your plantings will be ready to harvest. The more you tell it, the better the predictions.

So far, 2022 members have planted 837 crops 4190 times in 8675 gardens.

Some of our crops

pink fir apple heirloom potato

Recently Planted

Recently Harvested

scots potato

harvested by shiny

cayenne pepper

harvested by Batchelor

fava bean

harvested by bigblen

cherry tomato

harvested by midiprincess

grapefruit

harvested by CloCkWeRX

potato

harvested by miestasmagnus

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Seeds available to trade

Swiss chard

seeds saved by pazinjanka

Almere, Netherlands

conventional/non-organic

non-certified GMO-free

Will trade locally

broccoli

seeds saved by pazinjanka

Almere, Netherlands

certified organic

non-certified GMO-free

Will trade locally

bell pepper

seeds saved by pazinjanka

Almere, Netherlands

non-certified organic

non-certified GMO-free

Will trade locally

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Recent posts

Wanted: Nanaimo peach budwood (Canada)

by corvi,

As far as I can tell, no nurseries in British Columbia (or the rest of Canada) currently sell the [peach](crop) variety actually developed and adapted for this area. Local nurseries all seem to import peach trees from big American distributors, who don't offer it. Smaller American nurseries who d...

peaches

Recipe for kamokamo fritters

by shiny,

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7CiGyqLdu8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7CiGyqLdu8) Recipe for [kamokamo](crop) fritters

kamokamos

Japanese ginger.

by shiny,

This plant wants to take over the world. It's that pink ginger you get with sushi. It is pretty magical. It's not the root like regular ginger. Instead, you harvest the pink flower and the pickle it. That why the sushi ginger looks like a pink petal. It is a petal. I have constrained this [myo...

myoga ginger

Tomato relish from local heirlooms

by shiny,

The [Island Bay tomato](crop) plants have been finally turning red. I only got 5 seeds last year, and these sprouted into three plants. - which are now giving huge fruit. I made some tomato sauce out of these. They're great raw but they are definitely good for sauce too. I used the "fast/slow...

Island Bay tomatoes

the bumble bee appreciates this artichoke

by shiny,

I left two artichokes, to see how big they'd get. Well, they are enormous. This bumblebee really appreciated them and spent about half an hour feasting on the nectar. ![Bumblebee in artichoke flower](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49520173607_7584c60f9f_b.jpg) [artichoke](crop)

artichokes

Automating the seedlings

by shiny,

What's better than Brussel sprouts? Home-grown [Brussels Sprouts](crop) grown by robots. The automation (aka Robots) I'm using is an open source app called "Home Assistant". It runs nicely on a raspberry pi, but I'm running it on an old laptop, which is very convenient due to the backup pow...