Contained Data

• Sowing
  • Season start / end dates (regionally specific)
  • Spacing
  • Depth
  • Compost quantity
  • Initial watering
• Monitoring
  • Typical area / height occupied over time
  • Harvest season start / end dates (regionally specific)

Possible forms

May take the form of a properties file with various expected values or perhaps a simple language.

• Properties file option
  • Simpler to understand and adjust.
  • Procedures (e.g. plough techniques) need to be defined elsewhere.
• Language file option
  • Allows more innovation.
  • Monolithic grow file containing all procedures (e.g. plough techniques).
  • Separate included files containing procedures.
  • At what point to the instructions become machine specific?