SproutWeek: Offline Gemma Planner Advises Home Gardeners What to Sow This Week

A developer has built SproutWeek, an open-source garden planner that tells home gardeners what to plant and do outdoors each week. Users enter their location, growing space and daily sunlight, and the app uses the open-weight Gemma 3 model running locally through Ollama to suggest planting, weekly outdoor tasks and what to delay. The tool works offline, is free to run with no per-request fees, and keeps location and crop data on the user's own device. In the developer's test in Kolkata, the plan suggested spinach, coriander and radish for balcony pots, but one tomato variety needed more sun than the balcony received. The developer also noted plans to add a list of already-planted crops to future weekly recommendations.