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This is a list of projects that do similar things to Growstuff, and a summary of the differences between Growstuff and them.

This page has been broken into sections based on the primary function of the projects. In each case, Growstuff is included in the table for comparison.

Crop/plant database projects

These are sites that are primarily collections of information about growing particular crops/plants. For notes on the feasibility of importing data from these projects, see Importing data.

  • OpenFarm All International Custom Expert advice from members 22 MIT Yes Yes (undocumented) CC-BY

  • Practical Plants Edible/medicinal/useful UK Semantic wiki PFAF (above), wiki editors ~7400 N/A Yes Yes CC-BY-NC-SA Mixed (some CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-NC-SA)

  • Plants For a Future (PFAF) Edible/medicinal/useful UK Custom ? ? non-free Yes No Unclear - image says CC-BY-NC-SA, license text says CC-BY, explanation implies CC-BY-SA.

  • Gardenate Edible Australia, NZ, USA, UK, Canada, South Africa Custom ? ~100 non-free Yes No non-free

  • Gardenology All International Wiki wiki editors ~1000 (hard to estimate) N/A No No CC-BY-SA

  • Urbsly Heirloom tomatoes ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? Planned ??? "open" but unspecified

Garden tracking websites

These are websites which let you, the food gardener, log in and track/journal/plan your own garden.

  • Folia aka MyFolia Gardening International non-free No non-free

  • GrowVeg Vegie garden planning/layouts International non-free No non-free

  • PlanGarden Vegie garden planning/layouts International non-free No non-free

  • Growington What are you growing/where? International non-free No non-free

  • Smart Gardener Vegie garden planning/layouts USA non-free No non-free

Other

Projects that don't fit into any of these categories.

  • Garden Geek Garden science and automation Wiki + open source tools GPLv2 (software tools) No(?) might be in sourcecode somewhere No unclear
  • Gardenbot Garden automation Garden automation software/hardware howtos Source available but doesn't seem to have an actual license; website is CC-BY-NC-SA which is non-free. No No No
  • Ripe.Near.Me Local food trading Custom non-free No No non-free

Localharvest Sources of locally grown food (Australia) Custom non-free No No non-free

Notes

"Structured data" means that the information about plants/crops is stored in a structured form and can be queried. "API" means that there is an API for third parties to query the structured data.

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