The software world encompasses almost all kinds of possibilities, from having a planetarium within reach of your computer with the help of Stellarium, an event planner, a program to create new habits, among others.
Well then surfing the net I came across quite peculiar software that caught my attention, this software is intended for those who have plans to create a garden or who want to have a more overall vision of what they already have.
About Open Jardin
The program that we are going to talk about today is called Open Garden which is a totally free and open source application licensed under the GNU GPL v3.0.
Open Jardin is a software focused on permaculture which allows the user to manage the crops of a garden from a plan.
This is possible Through the representation in the software which allows to create a planning of plots and crop leaves in an annual table.
In addition, it also allows the creation of a representation in a table of 5-year crop rotations for each plot with visualization of previous crops colored according to the botanical family.
Open Garden includes within its database a great variety of plants, families and botanical species to use in the crop templates, among which we can find:
This can be achieved through an XML file that allows the parcels to be configured in the program.
Open Garden It is currently in its version 1.04 and the application is relatively new, as it is just beginning to be known and has few updates.
In Open Garden 1.04 basically the new thing that can be found in this version is:
- Draw paths as polygons
- Drawing polylines to represent a network, for example
- Main plane zoom
- update 1.03-002 -> add scroll bars
- management of the creation of the export and import database
How to install Open Jardin on Ubuntu 18.04 and derivatives?
Si do you want to install this software planning for your garden in your system, you must direct you to the following link y download the application's deb package.
Ya Once the download has been made, you can install the downloaded package with the help of your preferred application manager Or if you prefer, you can do it from the terminal.
To do this we must open a terminal Ctrl + Atl + T, now we must position ourselves in the directory where the downloaded file was saved and execute the following command to install:
sudo dpkg -i openjardin_1.04_amd64.deb
In case of having a problem with the dependencies we only execute the following command:
sudo apt-get -f install
And that's it, we will already have Open Jardin installed in our system.
How to use Open Jardin?
To start planning your Garden, you simply have to go to your applications menu to run Open Garden.
Ya open the program at the beginning of a project, it is first necessary to define the wallpaper by opening the image file that represents the garden.
For this we have an XML file called "garden_exempleWhich is included in the working directory, this example file includes a wallpaper and plots, with which we can give an idea of how it can be configured.
Now we can switch to the edit mode found in the main menu of the program and here we can configure the different plots, plantations and equipment.
Exit edit mode and click on the plot area and then click the "show crop sheet" button to create a new cutout.
Also in the planning section we can change the dates of the beginning of the crops and the duration of these.
Without more, it only remains for you to start creating your own project to take it to real life, if you know of any other application that allows you to do the same or something similar to Open Jardin, do not hesitate to share it with us in the comments.