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I'm going to voice an incredibly contentious opinion here and suggest that this is a perfect situation for buying a month of Claude and vibe coding a piece of bespoke software for yourself with it.
And then make it availble to all, announce it here a get harassed for vide coding :-)
"You're right to push back, when you create a new plant layout on Fridays, it does drop the entire database and
rm -rf /your system, would you like me to fix that for you?"Both not a likely problem with any recent model and absolutely mitigated by using it in a VM with snapshots, which, besides being good practice, is a technology that I expect selfhosters to be familiar with anyway.
If there are objections to major models, (economic, resource, moral, etc), this application is achievable with a self-hosted Qwen or similar, although it will take additional nudging. That's harder to get started with, though, which is why I didn't suggest it. Self-hosted Gemma 4 I would absolutely recommend using in a VM, it really likes to erase projects and start over, in my experience.
I hope that helps!
You will not do that with a self hosted qwen 4-7b. They are regarded. But yes.
This is exactly what I did earlier this week. There are some available garden management tools out there, but they are very limited, and mostly aimed at larger farm-like situations. I also have a small orchard and a vegetable garden, and a spreadsheet felt almost as much work and less flexible than letting Claude build something bespoke. (Also, I absolutely abhor spreadsheets) Since I didn’t plant everything myself, I even included a feature to make a photo, and ask Claude all the basic questions about it. It then stores all that information into the “knowledge base”. I can add to the same KB manually whenever I buy new seeds or get crops. I’m now letting it work on a visual representation of my yard, so it’s easy to work with. Took me a couple of evenings in total on the cheapest plan (I’m not in a hurry). It helps that I’m a software engineer by trade, which allowed me to make tons of decisions myself, guiding it more strictly. My recommendation to those that are not is to ask it to present you with decisions in a multiple-choice format, with good explanations of each answer. That makes it easier to get started even with little experience.
I agree. You can literally get bespoke software for your exact needs in a couple of afternoons now.