Touch Grass Garden: a plant tracker that only counts the days you went outside

Description and use

Touch Grass Garden rewards outdoor activity, provides daily guidance, and operates offline with local data storage.

Problem

Users want a plant tracker that rewards outdoor activity rather than app usage, works offline, and respects privacy.

Outcome

The app successfully rewards outdoor activity, provides actionable daily guidance, and operates offline with local data storage, while keeping user privacy intact.

Workflow

• 1. User enters location and seeds planted.
• 2. App determines season from coordinates and date.
• 3. App lists suitable crops for the month with growing method and needs.
• 4. Each plant is assigned growth stages with expected dates.
• 5. Daily, Gemma generates an outdoor card with best time, weather alerts, and plant observations.
• 6. User checks in by selecting stage, adding note, marking watering, and attaching photo.
• 7. App updates streak, weekly goal, badges, and 12‑week heatmap based on check‑ins.
• 8. User can download garden recap or print a plain‑text card.
• 9. Crop packs can be added via JSON files.
• 10. App runs offline using cached forecast and rule‑based cards if Ollama is unavailable.

Evidence

Touch Grass Garden is a plant tracker for beginners. You enter your location and what you sowed, and it works out the season and suggests what to plant this month.

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The streak is the part I care about most. It only counts days when you log a check‑in at your plants, and opening the app earns nothing.

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I used Gemma 3 (4B) through Ollama, so everything runs on my own laptop.

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The app runs on my laptop, so there's no live link.

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