Best Self Hosted Alternatives to Greg (Grow & Care Planner)

HortusFox is a self-hosted web application for managing your plants and garden. It lets you catalog plants with rich metadata, track care routines, and keep a timeline of observations so you can maintain collections over time.

Key Features

• Plant catalog with customizable attributes (e.g., names, taxonomy, notes) and photo uploads
• Garden/collection organization (e.g., locations/areas) to group plants meaningfully
• Care tracking and journal-style logging of events/observations over time
• Task-style workflows for recurring plant care (e.g., watering, fertilizing, repotting)
• Search and filtering to quickly find plants and review their history
• Multi-user web UI suitable for household/shared collections

Use Cases

• Maintain a home plant collection with a history of care and growth notes
• Track a greenhouse or community garden inventory with locations and photos
• Create a gardening journal to improve care routines based on past outcomes

Limitations and Considerations

• Feature set is focused on plant cataloging and care logs; it is not a full farm/greenhouse ERP.

HortusFox is a practical option for gardeners who want a private, structured system to manage plant information and care history. It works well for personal collections and small shared gardens where tracking tasks and observations is more important than complex operations management.