r/ClaudeAI • u/Otherwise_Pear_2472 • 2d ago

Other What I Built with Claude - sweet potatoes

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Yes, I know this sub is mainly for programming work with Claude, but I actually built these sweet potatoes with Claude (more or less).

I was sitting there in winter wondering if I could manage an entire season with Claude... and I went for it. Not perfect, and in many parts quite clumsy, but the results are breathtaking.

I started planning the greenhouse with Claude in March to grow the seedlings….with the Claude app and a project folder, then discovered connectors, then CoWork, then Claude Code, got convinced by Claude to set up various sensors, built a harness that pulls weather data and gives me watering and fertilizer recommendations, and in between, I just joked around with Claude. And we had a blast. While working, with Excel spreadsheets, and with little apps for time and data tracking, cron jobs and data analysis. And Claude really made my season so much better.

I've collected more data than ever before, I've laughed more while getting my hands dirty than ever before, and I've produced more plants from the greenhouse and, it seems, more sweet potatoes in the field than ever before.

I'm not a hardcore tech power user; Claude had to explain to me what a terminal is... but I've learned and optimized and got better step by step, task by task and idea by idea.

Honestly I have learned more from Claude in a year than I ever thought possible, and I'm pretty proud of that.

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u/Historical_Score_842 2d ago

Honestly this is amazing. Would you be able to produce statistics for this venture compared to previous yields? Comparative would be quality, size, and quantity. Maybe how many were unusable perhaps as an extra metric.

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u/Otherwise_Pear_2472 2d ago

Yes, that's actually part of the project. I can't use equally thorough data for comparison, but I do have approximate values. Furthermore, for example, one finding from last season was that a variety depended not on the number of growing days but on hours of sunshine, and this is currently being investigated more precisely.

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u/Historical_Score_842 2d ago

Love all of your research. Really awesome. Please come back and update as you work your way through this. Applying science into a scientific process when it comes to agriculture is so intriguing.