How do you handle plant care when you're away and someone else has to take over?
Every time I go on holiday, the same problem comes up: the person watching my plants doesn't actually know them the way I do. They get a rushed verbal rundown or a sticky note, and inevitably something either gets overwatered out of anxiety or just forgotten entirely.
I ended up building a feature into a plant app I've been making (Digital Garden) to deal with this: a shareable schedule so whoever's watching your plants can see watering/fertilizing reminders per plant without needing full access to your account.
Worth being upfront about the limitation though: the suggestions are species-general, not tuned to your actual plant's real condition in that moment. It won't know the soil's still damp and you should actually hold off a day. For someone who lives with the plants daily, that's a real gap. But for a short stretch where no one's paying close attention anyway, a decent general schedule beats a sticky note or nothing at all.
Curious how everyone else handles this, do you write out instructions, just hope for the best, or has anyone found a system that actually works well?