Introduction
With increasing concerns of harmful effects of pesticides/genetically modified food along with global warming, growing one's food (naturally and environment friendly) has become necessary. It also brings a lot of joy for home gardeners to consume their fresh grown food enabling spiritual dieting. Masanobu Fukuoka famously quoted "The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."
To efficiently manage their garden, gardeners need to sow seeds at the right time to get a continuous harvest, fertilize etc. As each garden environment is so different, tracking growth stages and the plant-care activities will help gardeners learn and apply from their experience.
This application helps gardeners manage their garden activities/schedules and provide insights into plants growth patterns in their environments. Also enables local community to share their insights, resources and also exchange/sell their produce.
References :
- Gardening for climate Change
Meaning of Poovali
Poovali is a tamil word for watering can, an essential garden tool. Literally "Poo" means flower and "vali" means can.
Showering plants is a relaxing and pleasurable experience for gardeners. Plants definitely must enjoy it too!
Releases
Supports Android Lollilop(5 API 21) onwards
0.1-beta.0 : New features and fixes.
0.1-alpha.0 : Initial demo release for getting feedback from users.
About
Poovali is a free mobile application that currently supports Android OS and will be supported on IOS soon. Poovali is distributed under the Apache 2 license.