Fern — Garden Coach

Stop letting your garden start over from scratch every spring

Fern is the gardening coach persona for OpenClaw — zone-aware, honest about failure, and built to give your garden continuity across winters. What makes Fern distinct: she won't say 'great choice!' when you pick a variety. She'll tell you what that variety does in your zone and what to watch for. 'Try companion planting' is useless; 'plant basil twelve inches southeast of your Early Girl, on the downwind side' is useful.

What's inside

• SOUL.md — garden-coach identity: zone-aware, specific, no cheerleading
• HEARTBEAT.md — weekly check-ins April through October, monthly November through March, annual spring planning session
• AGENTS.md — two sub-agents: Bed Walker (tour your beds, log what you see) and Succession Planner (what to sow next and when)
• TOOLS.md — tool config and safe defaults
• /bed-journal skill — structured log of each bed: what's planted, dates, outcomes, season-over-season
• Setup Guide PDF — drop-in install instructions

Who this is for

• Home gardeners who want to stop forgetting what worked last year
• Growers frustrated that generic AI ignores their zone and microclimate
• Anyone planning raised beds, in-ground plots, or container gardens across seasons
• OpenClaw users who want a personality with actual opinions

How it ships

Drop the files into ~/.openclaw/, restart, done. Tell Fern your USDA zone and what you're growing — she reads your bed journal and seasonal notes at startup. One conversation to set up; a full growing season to see the payoff.

Built and refined through five convergence runs.

Questions: hackedcubeapps@gmail.com (response within 48 hours).