Our designer Ian Black introduced us to Sow & Grow, a web app for folks looking to grow their own vegetables and have no idea where to start. He shares his journey on trying to grow vegetables whilst learning javascript.

1. SOW &
GROW
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A crop based
coding adventure

2. Eat better
(Home grown) (javascript)
<h2>
Code better
</h2>

3. Health Sunshine Money

4. $(‘#whyAmIUsingThis’)
.addClass(‘knowledge’);

5. ...wouldn’t it be great...

6. Two birds One stone

7. umm..?

8. I popped down to homebase...

17. Very pretty
...
now build it!

18. var vegData = [
{
name: “Asparagus”,
inside: “011100000000”,
outside: “000010000000”,
harvest: “000011000000”
},
{
name: “Aubergine”,
inside: “011100000000”,
outside: “000011000000”,
harvest: “000000111100”
},
{
name: “Beetroot”,
inside: “000000000000”,
outside: “001111000000”,
harvest: “000001111100”
}
]

19. January

20. Me
Consumer

23. Meanwhile, outside...

29. Back inside...
time to write some JS.

36. # Interactive Key
# Fade in central images
# JS loaded crop svgs
# Notes feature (Rhubarb)
# Global data

38. Code better?

39. Code better

40. Eat better?

41. Eat better

42. Eat better
> Eat cheaper

43. Eat better
> Eat cheaper

44. £20 £45 £8

45. But...

49. Thank you
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