serlo/plantbuddies

PlantBuddies is a tool to help you find companion plants, fast and simple.

plantbuddies's Issues

Design Improvements

• Colors for the sidebar not very readable

Add explanations and more data

• compile companions list
• add general notes for all plants
• add specific notes on two plants where available

German Version

• make fields available to translators
• translation (ongoing)
• UX considerations? (can we use js to check browser lang)
• add impressum

litte feature suggestion - seperate footer better

SEO

• set description, title and og-tags for buddy-pages
• add content about companion planting on landing page
• crawl german language version

License, credits, hat tips

Choose a license for

• Illustrations
• Data and texts (probably no copyright anyway)
• Code

hat tips, e.g.

• "Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fontawesome.io".

add explanation why plants grow well together

It would be awesome if there was an explanation why, for example, apples and strawberries grow well together (or why not)

How to add new plants/relationships?

Hi, this is a great tool, and I'd love to contribute some additional plants/relationships.

Would it be possible to add a "Contributing" section to the readme that explains the project setup and the basic steps to add new plant and relationship data (with any gotchas/things to consider)?

If not, that's fine - it looks reasonably straight-forward. The only immediate question that jumped out at me was that data/relations-data.js looked like it had been minified, but I couldn't see a non-minified version to make edits to?

Companion Planting: make it evidence based // calculate relations?

Is it possible to somehow calculate or guesstimate how much two plants will like each other (e.g. based on their families)?

Is there other reaserch on companion planting?

Evaluate these:

• https://permies.com/t/50032/Ecological-Companion-Planting-Guide-based
• http://sheldonfrith.com/2015/09/08/infographic-a-guide-to-ecological-companion-planting-in-temperate-climates/

translation tool

Hi Botho, do you know http://crowdin.com/ ? We use it to translate serlo.org. As far as I know, it supports classic language files as well as an API for strings. May be, that is of help. It would make the translation of plant buddies into other languages as well as the update of the English version very easy.

Illustrations

• Talk to Elena about illustrations
• sounds good, waiting for confirmation
• add as sprites?

sprites
https://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/

missing translation string

"unable to mach current …" not translated to german

hreflang tags

generate hreflang tags for pages

<link rel="alternate" href="https://plantbuddies.serlo.org/de/🌿/apfel" hreflang="de" />

Mobile Improvements

• Typeahead dropdown is bulky
• PlantBuddy List on landing page relies on hover
• Small screens hide the logo

Typeahead dropdown

• less height
• idea: only show after you typed at least a letter?

PlantBuddy List

• always show name next to icon
• maybe different layout (not 4 next to each other)

put buddies in order

atm. buddies are not sorted alphabetically.

Links to in depth information

• Links to practicalplants.org or Wikipedia
  ( practicalplants: waiting for reply api to find right article or copy pasting? )
• openfarm.cc now also has companion suggestions and other infos
• Links to Serlo article on Companion Planting / Mischkultur
• Other Options: pfaf.org / wildflower.org /