How to add new plants/relationships?

[coatesap]

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?

[elbotho]

Hey there, thanks for reaching out!
There was an "backend" at the beginning which we used to get started with the bulk of the data.

Since then (hacky backend aside) I put quite some thought into a proper way to manage the data for this project.
But to be honest there was not a lot of interest in collaboration so far so I never finished anything.

So my questions:

• Did you plan on adding a lot of relations/plants? What are your sources?
• Would you be interested working on setting up a simple, stable and usable process?

[coatesap]

No, I wasn't planning on adding a lot of new plants - just some of the more common (UK) garden vegetables like Courgette (Zucchini).

I'm not aware of 100% authoritative sources for companion planting, but would attempt to find 2-3 relatively reputable sources for any new relationships. Sites like https://www.farmersalmanac.com/companion-planting-guide-31301 that provide an explanation for any recommendations, for instance.

I don't have a lot of available time, but would be willing to put in a few hours here and there.

[elbotho]

Quickfix:
Maybe we should just rename this one 😉
https://plantbuddies.serlo.org/🌿/marrow

Will think about a way again, but might take some time as this is also very much a side project atm.

[coatesap]

Ha - I didn't even think of searching for "Marrow". I guess they're not grown as Marrows that often in the UK (or the US, AFAIK) so renaming to Courgette or Zucchini would definitely be the quick fix!

A 'nice to have' would be if the autocomplete could also work on the alternative names.