GardenFix: Local AI Plant Care That Gets You Off the Screen
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass . What I Built GardenFix is a local AI plant-care assistant built around a simple idea: take a photo, get one useful check, and return to your plant. It is for beginners who notice drooping or discoloured leaves
Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Submission 🌿
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass.
GardenFix is a local AI plant-care assistant built around a simple idea: take a photo, get one useful check, and return to your plant.
It is for beginners who notice drooping or discoloured leaves but don’t know what to investigate next.
Users upload a plant photo and answer two questions:
GardenFix then provides visible observations, possible explanations, and one practical physical check. It also explains what cannot be determined from the photo.
The screen is the starting point. The useful part happens afterward, when someone inspects the soil, drainage, or surrounding conditions themselves. Suggestions are not confirmed diagnoses.
GardenFix runs locally. You can try it using the setup instructions in the repository below.
A local AI plant-care assistant built for the Touch Grass open-source AI challenge. Everything runs on your own machine — no paid APIs, no cloud dependencies, no authentication. Designed for local processing; works offline after dependencies and model files are downloaded.
Upload a photo of your plant, tell GardenFix when you last watered it and how much sunlight it gets, and receive: