The latest articles on DEV Community by Rushil Patel (@rushilpatel33). https://dev.to/rushilpatel33 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4166202%2F9bf50747-927b-4529-9305-67ac6cd60cff.jpg https://dev.to/rushilpatel33 en Rushil Patel Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:34:19 +0000 https://dev.to/rushilpatel33/local-ai-for-local-climates-building-an-offline-garden-planner-with-gemma-3-ollama-65g https://dev.to/rushilpatel33/local-ai-for-local-climates-building-an-offline-garden-planner-with-gemma-3-ollama-65g <p>I live in Vadodara, and most planting advice online assumes a climate that isn't mine: frost dates, spring and fall. Here the seasons are monsoon, winter and summer, and October to February is dry and mild. So I built a small app that gives planting advice for Indian cities, using an open model that runs entirely on my own computer.</p> <h2> What it does </h2> <p>You type your city, click <strong>What should I plant?</strong>, and get a short list of what to plant this week. The app picks the season (monsoon, winter or summer) from today's date, then asks Gemma (<code>gemma3:4b</code>), running locally through Ollama, to write the advice.</p> <p>Code: <a href="https://github.com/RUSHILPATEL33/garden-planner" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/RUSHILPATEL33/garden-planner</a></p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fdyzcuyfoz04iehv3ssbl.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fdyzcuyfoz04iehv3ssbl.png" alt=" " width="800" height="365"></a></p> <h2> Why open-source mattered </h2> <ul> <li> <strong>Free.</strong> No API key and no per-question cost. After the one-time download, it costs nothing to run.</li> <li> <strong>Offline.</strong> Once the model is downloaded, it works without internet, which suits a garden.</li> <li> <strong>Private.</strong> My city never leaves my computer.</li> </ul> <h2> What went wrong first </h2> <p>My first answer had three problems: raw <code>**</code> symbols showing on the page, advice about winter rain and frost that doesn't fit Gujarat, and the same vegetable listed twice under two names (radish and mooli).</p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fu0hq4i6a7m5cnwssn1ni.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fu0hq4i6a7m5cnwssn1ni.png" alt=" " width="480" height="703"></a></p> <p>I fixed it by telling the model that India's October to February is dry and mild, limiting it to 5 plants with no repeats, and rendering bold text and lists properly on the page. With a small local model, the prompt does most of the work.</p> <h2> What I'd do next </h2> <p>[One or two ideas, for example more cities, a care schedule for the chosen crop, or Hindi and Gujarati support.]</p> <h2> How I built it </h2> <p>I used Cursor's agent for the first version and DevRelay to connect to the Hacktoberfest challenges.</p> hf26challenge devchallenge opensource showdev Rushil Patel Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:00:42 +0000 https://dev.to/rushilpatel33/new-to-community-8nc https://dev.to/rushilpatel33/new-to-community-8nc <p>Hello Everyone</p>