Our Mission & Agronomic Suite
Crop Plot & Sentry is an open-access agronomic guide, educational information portal, and organic-focused decision tool built to empower home vegetable gardeners, community garden stewards, and organic market growers with comprehensive growing guides, clear pest & disease references, and industrial-grade agronomic safety protocols.
🌱 Our Mission: Plan Ahead. Protect the Bed.
Conventional gardening apps treat garden planning as merely a visual aesthetic grid, ignoring the complex biological interactions happening below the soil and within the foliar canopy. In contrast, Crop Plot & Sentry bridges scientific botany and home horticulture.
Leveraging biological companion planting, beneficial insect habitat creation, and rigorous crop rotation to break pest lifecycles before sprays are ever required.
Hardcoded phytotoxicity interlocks prevent acute foliar burn (e.g., stopping oil sprays above 85°F and enforcing 30-day sulfur-oil spacing).
Local-first client architecture guarantees your property layout, crop yields, and personal garden logs remain private on your personal device.
📚 Published Agronomic Manuals & Research Library
View Knowledge Base →Crop Plot & Sentry maintains an open-access repository of long-form horticultural literature for home gardeners and smallholder market growers:
Vegetable Crop Rotation Manual
Taxonomic family classifications, pathogen life cycle breaking, and 4-year bed succession blueprints.
Volume II • IPM & ChemistryOrganic IPM & Spray Safety Protocols
4-tier IPM hierarchy, 85°F oil thermal cutoffs, dusk pollinator windows, and precision dilution math.
Volume III • Botanical BotanyScientific Companion Planting
Allelopathic root exudates, allicin-rhizobia antagonism, decoy trap cropping, and nectar corridors.
Volume IV • Soil HydrologyHorticultural Irrigation & Mulch
Rooting depth zones (8-48"+), vapor pressure deficit (VPD) stress, and thermal mulch buffering.
Volume V • Thermal PhenologyAgrometeorology & GDD Models
Baskerville-Emin sine wave calculations, insect emergence bio-fixes, and 4-inch soil temp minimums.
Volume VI • Plant PhysiologyPlant Nutrition & Disorders
Mobile vs immobile nutrient translocation, blossom end rot biophysics, and root hypoxia.
Volume VII • Seed EcologySeed Science & Sowing
Seed imbibition physics, taproot disturbance sensitivity, 2-3x depth rules, and hardening off.
Volume VIII • Master ReferenceIllustrated Agronomy Glossary
50+ defined terms with technical definitions, plain-language translations, and actionable field takeaways.
🔬 Scientific Credentials & Methodology
The rules, calculations, and diagnostic workflows embedded in Crop Plot & Sentry are synthesized from peer-reviewed agricultural research, university extension field guidelines (including Texas A&M AgriLife, UC Davis IPM, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and University of Georgia Extension), and OMRI (Organic Materials Review Institute) listed standards.
- 27 Integrated Agronomic Rules: Covering Allelopathy (organosulfur vs rhizobium), Solanaceae Blight Overwintering (3-Year Minimum Break), Brassicaceae Glucosinolate bio-fumigation, Heavy/Light Feeder succession, and Pollinator Spinosad Dusk Windows.
- Agrometeorological Telemetry: Live integration with NOAA/NWS automated surface stations for real-time Growing Degree Day (GDD base 50°F) accumulation, relative humidity vapor pressure deficits, and U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) classifications.
- Heuristic Vision Ensembles: Diagnostic models trained to cross-reference visual foliar symptoms with nutrient differentials (preventing false diagnoses of nitrogen/magnesium mobile chlorosis as pathogen blight).
Contact Us & Community Feedback
We welcome grower feedback, feature suggestions, bug reports, and plain-language glossary requests.
Official Feedback & Support Channel
To submit bug reports, suggest additional crop species or companion pairings, or ask agronomy questions, please use our central Google Form feedback channel. Every submission is reviewed directly by our engineering and agronomy team.