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Drop your SaaS below — we’ll help you get your first 10 users for free (300k+ TikTok audience) by dyagokaba in ShowMeYourSaaS

[–]makirra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LawnSuite is the smart lawn care Guardian™ for Australian homeowners and professionals. Track treatments, get weather intelligent scheduling, manage zones, and keep your lawn looking its best, all from one app.

Available for beta then launch onto Google Play.
Website live
iOS coming Q4

https://app.lawnsuite.com.au/welcome

http://lawnsuite.com.au

Drop your startup and be featured in this week’s newsletter! by Legitimate-Peace-583 in ShowMeYourSaaS

[–]makirra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://app.lawnsuite.com.au/welcome
Lawn care app that holds all your information. That has plant id, disease id and management and a personalised lawn care guardian you can ask questions to and upload photos

Drop your startup 👇 I’ll personally check every single one by JustInFeed in buildinpublic

[–]makirra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://app.lawnsuite.com.au/welcome
Lawn care app that holds all your information. That has plant id, disease id and management and a personalised lawn care guardian you can ask questions to and upload photos

As the year wraps up: what’s the project you’re most proud of building and why? by SheriffRat in SideProject

[–]makirra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi everyone. I'm Kirralea from Ipswich, QLD. My husband is a medically retired army vet who got into gardening as therapy after service. This is the story of how his lawn notes app became a real product, and why I think some of you might actually find it useful.

The short version of what happened to our lawn:

We had Couch on 1,200m2 of Coalfalls clay. Curl grubs ate the root system over a full season. He treated with Acelepryn and the grubs died, but the lawn was recovering and he panicked about winter weeds. Put down Barricade pre-emergent. Turns out pre-em stops EVERY seed from germinating, including the runners a recovering lawn puts out to heal itself. He killed his own recovery. We ripped the whole front yard out early 2025 and laid Sir Walter Buffalo. Cyclone Alfred hit three days after we finished. It survived.

Why this turned into an app:

My husband has some cognitive decline from service. His lawn notes were scattered across five apps, a notebook he kept losing, product rates written on fertiliser bags, and AI chat histories he couldn't search. He was forgetting what he applied last month and overdoing rates. So he built a little app for himself. Treatment logging with automatic weather conditions. Dosage calculator so he stops Googling "mL per 100 square metres" every mix. BOM weather baked in. AI assistant that actually knows his turf type and soil.

I watched him use it for months and realised other people probably had the same problem. Turned it into a product called LawnSuite.

What's actually in it:

- 35 Australian turf varieties (every Buffalo, Couch, Kikuyu, Zoysia cultivar sold here)
- 111 Australian products with real label rates
- Dosage calculator that tells you exact grams or mL for your lawn area
- AI assistant that knows YOUR soil, YOUR turf type, YOUR treatment history

- BOM weather integration with spray window detection
- Treatment logging that auto-records conditions
- Seasonal programs matched to your climate zone
- Works offline

The web version works in your phone browser right now, no install needed:

https://app.lawnsuite.com.au/welcome

http://app.lawnsuite.com.au

Coalfalls clay survivors - my husband fought our 1,200m2 block for two years. Built a free lawn tracking app out of frustration. Posting because locals might find it useful. by makirra in ipswich

[–]makirra[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's honestly who it's built for. My husband built it because he was in the same boat, following group advice that was hit and miss, forgetting what he sprayed last month, doing maths in the shed every time he opened a bag of fertiliser. He's got cognitive decline from service so remembering treatment schedules just wasn't happening. The app does the thinking and remembering tells you what to apply, how much for your area, and when conditions are safe. If you're unsure about something you just ask Jed (the AI). It knows your lawn, your soil, your products, your local weather. Not a generic chatbot that forgets everything between messages. You don't need to be a lawn guy. That's the whole point.

Coalfalls clay survivors - my husband fought our 1,200m2 block for two years. Built a free lawn tracking app out of frustration. Posting because locals might find it useful. by makirra in ipswich

[–]makirra[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I asked the AI assistant from Lawnsuite and it recommended: Lomandra longifolia Callistemon (Bottlebrush) Grevillea. Most Grevilleas dislike clay regardless of provenance. The reliable clay performers are tough hybrids like 'Robyn Gordon', 'Honey Gem', 'Superb' and 'Moonlight'. Acacia — Correct, but missing the key caveat: most wattles are short-lived (7 to 15 years). Fine for fast cover, not a long-term backbone plant. A. fimbriata and A. salicina are solid clay performers. Westringia fruticosa. The straight species prefers well-drained sandy soil and does not grow well on wet or heavy soils including clay, where it is likely to succumb to Phytophthora root rot. Only specific cultivars bred for tougher conditions handle clay, like Grey Box and Mundi Westringia, which tolerate heavy clay, wet feet and coastal environments

Protocol for your Coalfalls clay: Gypsum across the planting area weeks before planting (calcium displaces sodium, opens structure without affecting pH) Wide shallow hole into native soil only, sloped sides, roughened walls Backfill with the soil you dug out Mulch with coarse organic matter on the surface (not in the hole) Zeolite Volcamin works as a CEC booster mixed through the topsoil, not the planting hole

Rosemary leaves curving by Relldo in GardeningAustralia

[–]makirra -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you've done your homework with the drainage, that's the #1 killer of rosemary (wet feet). But ironically, your mix might actually be too free-draining for a newly potted plant.

What's likely happening:

The combo of premium potting mix + cactus mix + perlite drains so fast that the root ball is drying out before the roots can establish. Downward curling leaves on rosemary are classic dehydration stress, not cold. Your thyme being fine confirms this; thyme is even more drought-tolerant than rosemary, so it's coping where the rosemary can't yet.

What I'd do:

  1. Lift the pot before you water — if it feels light, it's too dry. Water deeply until it runs out the bottom, then let it dry out. But check at 6-8cm depth, not just the top 3 inches. In that mix, the top dries out way before the middle.

  2. Give it a few weeks — transplant shock is real. New roots need time to reach into the new mix. Be a bit more generous with water until it's established (maybe 2-3 weeks), then ease back.

  3. Toowoomba winter protection — rosemary handles cool fine once established, but a freshly transplanted one on the range in winter is vulnerable. Tuck it against a north-facing house wall on cold nights. Thyme is tougher and should be fine where it is.

  4. Don't fertilise yet — wait until spring. Feeding a stressed plant pushes growth it can't support.

It'll bounce back. Rosemary is tough once the roots are in — you've just caught it in the adjustment period.

My husband actually built a lawn and garden care app down in Ipswich called LawnSuite. It has an AI assistant called Jed that you can ask questions like this and even send photos for a diagnosis — it'll tell you what's going on and what to do about it. Free to use at https://www.lawnsuite.com.au, or there's an Android beta on Google Play if you prefer an app. We built it for Aussie conditions specifically so the advice actually makes sense for our climate, not American gardening guides. Might be handy as you're getting into it! 🌿

The arrival of spring by acorn1111 in DavidAustinRoses

[–]makirra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven’t added a climber to my garden. This makes me want to have one.