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1. What is this class about?: Hi, welcome to an AI,
Garden Design Adventure. If you're going to oversimplify the process of garden
planning and garden design. If you've done a
garden plan before, you know how tedious it can be. And if you enjoy
doing garden plans, it's because you've
got at least a decade of experience designing gardens. There are so many
things to think about. What's the right climate? What kind of seeds do you want? What plant varieties are
you going to choose? Where are you going
to put these plants? Which ones are going
to grow really big? Which ones are going
to cast a shadow? This is the reason
why most of us, even though we have the space to grow our food, be scared. In this class, I want to take
that fear away from you. With a very basic
understanding of gardening, I will teach you how
to use an AI chat pot. And using that chat pot, you can get an
actual garden plan in less than 10 minutes. Something that would
have taken you weeks. Sit back and get ready for a garden design
Adventure of a lifetime. This is the skillshare class
that I'm most excited about. In the next 30 minutes, you will learn how to use an artificially intelligent
chat pot to design a garden.
2. Get familiar with ChatGPT's Layout: We're going to go ahead and
enter the URL of cha GPT. We need to go to chat
openai.com Okay, Once you hit Enter, chatPt
starts to load over. Here is the login. I'm
going to press login. I'm going to just go and
click Continue with Google. If you're doing a sign up, this is the same process,
Continue with Google. As soon as I get into my e mail, you're going to see all my
previous chats on the left. This is the togle for all your previous chats,
have two options. On the top, you
have Chat GPT 3.5 which is right now free and
it's available for us to use. You also have Chat GPT four. Now this is something that
requires an upgrade and right now you'll have to pay about $20 a month to get into the problem. For today's reasons, we're going to stay with
the free version. It's plenty good
for a lot of work. At the bottom, this
is the prompt window. This thing you see
at the corner is a plug in that I
have of grammarly. You will not see
this in your window. We're just going to start with
entering our prompts here. Hi. Okay. When you
enter a chat chat, GPT replies hello, how
can I assist you today? Want to grow food? Okay, now, immediately
char GPT gets on it, we have such a beautiful
answer from char GPT, right? But this is the basic layout. We're going to keep this layout. And I'm going to
zoom the screen and readjust the bits here so that we can have
a better experience. We're going to move
on to the next video where we're going to actually use prompts to
get a real garden design. We're going to explain what our garden looks
like to char GPT. Gpt is going to give
us recommendations for a real garden
layout. Let's get there.
3. Garden Planning: Getting Started: Welcome to the most
important part of the class. We're going to talk to chat GPT. The first prompt that
we're going to type is, I want you to be my garden
designer and planner. What are the few
questions that you would like me to answer, so that you can design
a garden for me? Okay. Let's go ahead
and put that in. This is going to prompt Chad GPT to ask me a bunch of questions, and based on that
information, hopefully, Chad GPT is going to give us
a good garden design. Okay. We hit enter now. Chat GPT has ten questions
for me to answer. Chat GPT wants to know the
location, where my garden is, the climate in
which my garden is, the garden size, the
shape of the garden, the purpose of the garden,
my plant preferences, the maintenance time
that I have available, the budget that I
have available, and do I want to include
any special features? How much sunlight do I have? How much shade do I have
in terms of wildlife? Do I want to attract
wild life or do I want certain wildlife
to be deterred? What's the timeline
on my project? I've been doing professional garden design for a decade now. These are exactly the
questions that we would ask a client if we were
designing a garden for them. I'm really happy Cha GPT covered almost
everything, right? Let's go ahead and answer these questions for
Cha GPT, all right? Let's go back and look
at the first question. The first question
that ChaGPT has for us is our location
and climate, okay? I'm going to put the
question number one. I'm going to start answering
my questions, okay? No. It doesn't matter where I live. My garden is in
Bangalore, India. Okay? Now, if my garden is
in Bangalore, India, the next question
is the climate. I don't know what
climate I'm in, maybe I don't know
what seasons I get. Because I'm just starting
off with my garden journey. I'm just going to leave the other two questions unanswered, hoping that GPT is
able to figure it out. Okay. I'm going to
press Shift and enter. Moving to the second question. What are the dimensions
of your garden, your garden space,
Small, medium, or large? Are there any unusual features or obstacles in your garden? Like, are there any slopes,
rocks, existing trees? Good question. I do
not have a garden. I actually have a balcony space. We are going to design
my balcony space a little later in the video, but for the purpose
of this class, we're going to create
a hypothetical garden. I'm going to sketch
that layout on paper as a GPT gives us a garden
plan and a layout. We're going to sketch
that layout onto the map that we have just to make sure that we're getting
the right answers. Okay, My hypothetical
garden is going to be, my garden is 20
meters by 40 meters. Okay. Now I'm just going to
make a small assumption here. Because I live in the
northern hemisphere, the sun available to me
is towards the south. And if you live in the
southern hemisphere, the sun will be
towards the north. Okay. The bigger
portion of my garden, if it is facing the south, that means it's going
to get the most amount of sunlight. I hope
that makes sense. I'm just going to put the 40
meter side is south facing. Okay. My garden is 20
meters by 40 meters. The 40 meter side
is south facing. My house is to the north. And my neighbor's house casts a shadow and is to the east. All right, now we're also
going to put a tree here. I have a large tree to
the southwest corner. Moving on to the next
question we have. What's the purpose
of your garden? Relaxation, entertainment. Growing vegetables,
attracting wildlife. Do I have any specific them? Do I want a formal garden, a cottage style garden, a wildlife friendly garden? A modern garden? Good questions. This is how a garden
planner or a designer would consult you before they go back and make
a design for you. So we're going to
answer this question. My garden's purpose is to grow my own food and I
would like to have a Zen corner and a
sandpit for my children. Do I have any specific themes? I would like a Parma
culture garden. Okay. I would. A parma culture garden. Who wouldn't? Next, we
have plant preferences. Do I have any preferences? Are there any plants that I
dislike or I'm allergic to? Am I interested in creating a specific color theme?
This sounds interesting. Okay. I do not have favorites. Choose what's best
for my climate. Okay. I would like a fun color theme but I
don't know much about this. I just want Chat GPT to
do the bulk of the work, as much of it as
it can on its own, and I want to provide as little
information as possible. What I'm trying to do
here is I'm going to tell chat GPT, I don't
have any favorites. Pick something
that's the best for my climate and also I would
like a fun color theme, but I don't know
much about this. Okay, let's see what it does. Moving on to the next question. What's the maintenance level? I have a few hours. Every week, I have a budget. Okay. This is generally what we tell our garden designers. So I'm not going to be specific
in terms of the numbers. I'm just going to tell chat GPT that I have a limited budget. Are you planning to do the work yourself or hire professionals? I could do the work myself. I'm not sure. Can you help?
Let's see what happens. Next question. Special features. Are there any special features
you want in your garden? Patio, Water feature, seating
area, garden lighting. I want a few bird
feeders and a bird bath. The eighth question is sunlight. How much sunlight
does your garden receive throughout the day? It gets good sun. It's very important
for the garden to get sunlight at least
more than 4 hours a day. Okay? If your garden is getting sunlight for less
than 4 hours a day, that means you can only choose the varieties that
usually do good indoors. If your garden is getting
anything more than 4 hours, then you can grow
a lot of things. I'm going to be very
generic with my answers. It gets good sun.
Nine, question. Are you interested in
attracting wildlife, interested in incorporating
sustainable and eco friendly practices
in your garden? So I'm going to
answer yes and yes. Tenth question, time line. One month. Okay. I'm going to say one month because I have winter coming
in in December where we are, since we are
somewhere in October, that gives me good
time to set up my garden and some extra
room to make errors. I'm also going to add some
extra information to chat GPT a winter garden. Okay. Which means I'm
telling ChaPT that I want to garden
immediately because winter is the next
season that's coming. I want to winter garden now. We've put all our questions, we've answered everything
that ChaPt wants. Let's hit Enter and
see what we get. That's a lot okay. This is the information that
we've given and char GPT is generated a garden
design plan for us. Wow. The first thing it does is it's divided our
garden into functional zones. We have a sunny area for the permaculture garden to grow vegetables,
fruits and herbs. That's good. Consider raised beds for better control
and easier maintenance. Create a zen corner
in a shaded area, perhaps near the large tree
in the southwest corner, with elements like a small
pond meditation area and ornamental plants for
a tranquil atmosphere. Designate a section for a sandpit to your
children to play. Perfect. But I want
Chad GPT to do this, so we're going to get there. Plant selection, choose a
variety of vegetables and fruits that thrive in
Bangalore color scheme. Since you mentioned
a fun color scheme, consider a vibrant and
diverse color palette. Okay? So CharGPTs just gone ahead and explained
all my questions. Okay. So I'm going to be a little more direct
with char GPT. Design my garden for me. Okay? I'm just going to
say design my garden. Let's see what char
GPT has to say.
4. Garden Planning: Unleash your Creativity: Immediately, Chad GPT is
giving us a garden layout. It's telling us where to put
the permaculture garden, where to put the Zen corner, where to put the sandpit, what's the fun color theme, and what are the bird friendly features that we're
going to add? Where are we going to
do the winter garden? Interesting. Now, every time
we feel something is off, we can just tell Chad
GPT to make a change, and it'll go ahead
and incorporate that change into the design. Okay. Chap is telling us to put the permaculture
garden from north to south along the
20 meter length. The Zen corner needs to
be near the large tree, which is near the
southwest corner. The sandpit for children is somewhere in the central
area, towards the south, so that it gets good for
the fun color theme, it's telling me to incorporate a mix of colorful flowering
plants throughout the garden, like marigolds, zeninas
and sunflowers. Also consider colorful
pots garden art. Okay? The answers that
I've got are very generic. Okay? I'm going to
tell Chad GPT to be more specific, specific, and give me a list
of all the plants I need, and their quantities. The next question
I'm going to ask is I'm going to say explain my permaculture garden design and my winter garden
layout in detail. Okay. The first question
has been answered. Char GPT is telling me that I need about six tomato plants, about four bell peppers,
four egg plants, about six ocras, eight
spinach Swiss chart, Basil mint and two fruit trees, and two comfrees because compre
is a dynamic accumulator. Perfect in the Zen
corner chart is asking me to put about
five bamboo plants, some ornamental grass, hostas and ferns which are shade loving because we've put the
Sen garden under the tree, so we've got a lot of shade
water lily for the pond, and some stones for the pond. In the pathway for the sandpit, we need a depth of at least
30 to 40 centimeters. Okay. For the fun color theme, again, Chad put has given
me a list of flowers. It wants me to put
three bird feeders, according to the size of my
garden, and one bird bath. The winter garden is going to
have broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, leafy greens, carrots, beets and fruit trees. Let's see how it's explained the permaculture
garden design. I don't need a separate winter
and permaculture garden. I want a large garden that
can grow winter annuals. As I will be planting in
November or December, I'm going to propose
this adjustment to my design and we'll see what chart Pt comes
up with under. In that case, you have
a single garden that accommodates both
your permaculture and winter annuals. Perfect. Chart put has gone ahead
and combined everything. It's giving me a list of
varieties that I can grow. And it's giving me a
lot of information, but I want it to be
more structured. Can you tell me the exact
layout and placement? As you can see, GPT has given me the dimensions and the placements for
all the elements. Okay. Arrange keyhole shaped garden beds in rows along
the length of your garden. Each keyhole bed should be
approximately 1.2 meters, which is four feet wide and 3 meters, which
is ten feet long. With a central circular
opening for easy access. Leave sufficient space
between each keyhole bed. Four pathways along the
southern side of your garden, which is on the 40
meter side plant your warm season vegetables
such as tomatoes, bell peppers,
eggplants, and okra. In the keyhole bends, these bends will receive
the most sunlight. Then there's a transition zone towards the northern
end of your garden, allocate a sunny
transition zone, approximately six to 8 meters
long and four metres wide, where you will plant
your winter annuals. Now this zone should receive full sunlight
throughout the day and is where you will
transition from your warm season crops
to winter crops. And then it's going to give
me a list of winter annuals, companion planting, mulching, rainwater
harvesting and pathways. Perfect list all the plants
I need and their quantities. Let's see what ChargPtays. Perfect Cha pet has divided my garden into a sunny area
and a transition zone. And then it has
given me a list of general garden plants
that I can put around. Now explain my
entire garden layout as clearly as possible. Let's see what this prompt does. Let's go ahead and see
what Charge pet said. Okay, now my garden
is in Bangalore, which has a side of 20
meters by 40 meters. It's divided into two sections. The permaculture section for warm season plants and the transition zone for
the winter annuals. The permaculture
section occupies the southern part of the garden. It receives the
most sunlight and the garden beds are arranged in rows along the length
of the garden. Each bed is about four feet
wide and ten feet long, with a central circular
opening in a keyhole shape. Between each keyhole bed, there are clear pathways at least two feet
wide for easy access. Now the plant selection, it's given me a list of plants
for the warm season and compre is strategically placed
as a dynamic accumulator. And then it goes and
tries to propose companion planting garden
practices transition zone. And then it gives me
a plant selection. The chat that we're having
with a GPT is downloadable. I'm going to use the
information that I've just received to make a small
sketch of the garden design, and then we're going to go
ahead with our next prompt. What's the budget I
need for my garden? Okay. This is a good question. What's the budget I need for my garden Now, Chad GPT knows. I'm from Bangalore, India. Chardpt is going to give me all the prizes in my currency. And it's telling
me that in total, I need a rough estimate of
about 35,000 to 55,000 rupees. Now, the reason Chad GPT has given me this
budget is because I told Chad GPT that I will
do everything on my own. If you plan to do
most of the work, labor costs will be minimal. However, if you need to
hire professionals for specific tasks like
construction or heavy labor budget accordingly, okay, let's say include
the labor costs. That's very accurate.
That's very accurate. So it's telling me
that I need about 3,000 to 5,000 for labor. I need some extra money for hardscaping with
labor costs included. Your total estimate budget for your garden project,
as mentioned earlier, could range 40-80
thousand or more. So now it's come
close to $1,000 Okay. Depending on the extent of
professional assistance required and the
complexity of your garden. Perfect. Now we've just made a garden design something that we would need a
professional help for. I can continue in this chat, I can ask all questions. How do I start? How do I start? Then I can ask what's
the next step that I do? How do I do the planting
once the garden is growing? I can ask chart GPT
garden related questions. Hey, I think there
are white flies on my tomato plants.
What can I do next? Chagpt remembers that you
have a permaculture garden, which means it's an
organic garden and you cannot spray
synthetic pesticides. Gpt will automatically recommend the safest method to get
rid of the white flies. It's an amazing tool. The more you interact with it, the better results you will get.
5. Your Skillshare Project: Welcome to the project section
of your skillshare class. Your task is to create a comprehensive garden
plan using Chat GPT. Whether you're
starting from scratch or enhancing an existing garden. This project will showcase
your creativity skills, your planning skills, and your new found
gardening knowledge. The first step of the project
is to define your goal. What do you want? Do you
want a garden design? Do you want to
design your balcony? Do you want to design a rooftop? Do you want an additional kitchen garden or
a market garden? Define your goals. Define your garden's
objective and purpose. Do you want a visually
breathtaking garden? Do you just want to grow food? Do you want a space
for relaxation? Do you want a place for
your kids to have fun? Define all your
goals and list them. Assess your site and
prepare your soil. Make sure to understand
which part of your site gets the best
sun to grow your plants. Which part of your
site is under shade? Which part is
exposed to the wind, and which part is not favorable to grow your
plants. Assess the site. Pick up as much information
as possible and make sure to feed all that
information to chat GPT. Take a soil test if you can. If you're planning to
grow all your plants directly in the soil, make sure to take a soil test and give that
information to chart GPT so that you can get some
recommendations on how to best prepare your soil for the garden that
you're planning. Make sure to share
the list of plants that you've generated
using chart GPT. If you have chosen something
particular and unique, explain to us why
you have selected those particular plants and how they align with your goals. And finally, create a
visual representation of your garden layout. You can use diagrams, sketches, or digital tools to showcase
how you've arranged the plants within
your garden space to make your project stand out. You can share with us the
budgeting that you've got from Char GPT for your
garden plant selection, your planting schedule, and
how you propose to introduce companion planting and other
permaculture techniques into your garden space. Make sure to keep us posted with your garden journey.
Give us your updates. Tell us how accurate Chad
GPT's budget information was to the actual amount of money that you spent
while making your garden. Tell us how your plant
selection turned out. Give us your best tips and ask questions in the
discussion section. Make sure to stay in
touch with us and I'm looking forward to
seeing your garden journey. Let's move on to the next class.
6. Design my Balcony Space with me: Welcome back. This
is the section where you will be designing my
balcony space with me. Immediately. When
I tell Chad GPT, be my garden designer, and design my balcony for me, It gives me a set of
questions like before, but there are much
fewer questions here. We'll get to y in a second. I go ahead and explain
how my balcony is situated from where
it's getting sunlight, and what additional features
I want in my balcony. Now that we've got a generic
output from Chad GPT, we need to give it
more information, so that it can give us a
design that we can use. Let's start. I'm putting
in a prompt that says, I want to grow food and
make tea from my garden. Let's see if Chad GPT
is going to give us plant varieties that can
actually be used to make tea. The next question, look Chargeptes immediately changed our plant selection
to edible plants. And it's chosen
herbs, tea plants, salad greens, tomatoes and
peppers, and strawberries. Now, this plant selection is not going to be very
precise because again, Chagpet does not know where
we are. We need to tell it. I'm giving Chargpti
some more information. I'm telling Chargpt that my balcony is in
Bangalore, India. Select what grows best here. And also, I want to start
my garden in November. Char GPT is going to
readjust its answer. Every time I give a new
piece of information, the answer is going
to get readjusted. Now, the herbs
list has expanded. The tea plants have
been selected, the salad greens
have been selected. The vegetables that grow bless the flowers that
I can put in my garden, the fruits, the aromatic plants, everything is now listed. Now it's time to go and
get the output list. All the plant varieties
and their quantity, right? We've got an exhaustive list. Let's go to the next question. Make my garden
design look at that. Chad GPT knows what to do. It's giving me a layout, and it's telling me what
kind of containers, how many planters do
I need for each plot? The layout is very general. I'm going to tell chat GPT, where do I keep each
plant? Explain the layout. It's gone back to the
dimensions and it's telling me on the longer side, where am I doing? What herbs? You take two mint pots
and place these on a small table or a plant
stand near the seating area. Then you keep your
coriander position, this spot next to the mint. Then Fenugreek, keep this next to the coriander
curry leaf. Place this at the end of the herb corner. This
is the herb corner. Then we move on to
lemongrass position these in the sunniest
area of your balcony. You can use large containers to accommodate them, then basil, place this near the
lemongrass and then position the ginger
next to the basil. Moving on stagepts telling
me to use lemongrass, basil, and ginger to make tea. Moving on to the salad section. Again, spinach is coming
next to the seating area, ensuring that it gets
adequate sunlight. The lettuce is next
to the spinach, the regula is next
to the lettuce, and then so on and so forth. The list goes on and then
we move on to the flowers. Surround the perimeter of your balcony with these flowers. Then petunias, pansies, the aromatic corner,
the succulent. It's a good list, but we
need more help from Cha GPT. Now I'm putting a prompt
that I've never used before. I'm telling chargiPt
to make a plan. What containers do I need
and how do I space them and explain the visual layout to
me in text using dimensions. Let's see what ChagPT does. I'm using this prompt
for the first time. I'm a little apprehensive
with the answer, but I know with my
experience with ChagPt that it usually does the
job load failed. Okay. This is another
thing with charge Pet. Every time it gets stuck,
just go ahead and click regenerate and it'll give
you the answer. Right? Look, we're here. Chagpt
is telling me that the seating area needs to be about 2.5 feet by
2.5 feet for the table, 1 ft by 1 ft for the chair
along the longer side, and then leave some space
for walking and access. Then the 1 ft diameter
pot is used as containers for the herbs that is about five feet near
the seating area. Then for the plants, we
again take about one on a two feet to two feet
container for the plants. And you keep it along
the 15 feet length. Then for the salad greens, two feet by 1 ft containers, position them along the line and go ahead and
finish the line. Then you come back to the
flowers about 1 ft in diameter, along the edge of the balcony on all sides, creating a border. Then you take petunias and pansy pots and put them
in between the marigolds. The aromatic corner is on the opposite side of
the seating area. And the succulent area
are much smaller pots, which is about six to 8 ". They are kept in a convenient
spot where it fits well, so this is pretty descriptive. I'm going to use what Chad
GPT just said to make a sketch and explain to you guys what the
layout looks like. But we're going to go
ahead and ask Chad GPT some more questions
because we are curious, make me a budget for
my balcony garden. With this prompt,
Chad GPT is going to tell me all the different
components of my garden, and how much they're going
to cost me immediately. It's just wonderful
the amount of data that Cha GPT gives out
in a matter of seconds, if something's missed out, we can just go ahead
and tell Chad GPT, hey, you've left this out, and it will go and
change its answer. If you look over here,
these are Indian prizes. I've been doing
garden design for about a decade to just look at the screen and know that most of these prices
are pretty accurate. Okay. This is a
wonderful budget. As soon as I asked ChagPT
to make me a budget, ChagPts telling me the
cost of the plants, the cost of the containers and
planters for those plants, the cost for the seating
area and the decor, the gardening tools
and supplies, and the miscellaneous costs. All of this is coming up to a total budget about six
thous to 15,000 rupees. Now I reckon I should
be able to get a good project done
in this price. Now, I'm just going
to go and ask ChagPT if it's missing
anything, right? Chagpt goes out and
comes out with a list. It's not mentioned.
Garden maintenance, garden accessories,
seasonal expenses, emergency fund water costs, organic fertilizers
and soil amendments, the resources required to learn gardening and the
long term planning. Again, like we've displayed, this is a very powerful tool. And the more you
talk with Chad GPT, the more advanced
prompts that you put, the better you will feel, and the more you
will get to learn. If you have a pest problem, you can ask Cha GPT how to handle it if you've
got a problem with the way your leaves are
looking and you want to understand what kind of soil amendments to do to fix that. A Cha GPT is just
like a Google search, but it's giving you more
personalized answers. If you keep a chat open, what happens is
every time you go and add more information
in that chat chat, GPT tends to remember everything that you've
discussed before it. If your garden has been
explained in one chat, go ahead and continue
your garden queries. In the same, if you want
to do something else, like if you want chat
GPT's help to write a mail or if you want to
prepare notes for a class, then start a separate chat that every chats information is exclusive to each other and you handle each
topic in each chat. This was our Garden Plan class. Let's move on to the next class.
7. AI Best Practices & Conclusion: Congratulations on
completing this journey in the world of AI
powered garden design. Now you've seen how
powerful AI can be. But with great power comes
great responsibility. So I'm here to warn you about the best way to use
an AI chat bot. Be careful about your privacy while talking to your AA chat bot because if you want to tell your AI chatbot where
your garden is, it's enough to just mention
the name of the city. Because what the AI
chat board really wants is to know the climate
of where you're from, the weather, the soil condition, and other parameters which are a very general pool of data, so you don't have to give it
your postal address, right? So be careful about
your privacy. Remember that there is a bias when it comes to content
generated by AI. It only knows the data
that it's been fed. It knows a lot of the information available
on the Internet. But chat GPT 3.5
the version that we're using is not
aware of anything that came after the
September of 2021. Make sure to use AI ethically. Do not just take all the information
that I've given you and start a
gardening business. Don't just get clients and
put that information on chat GPT and try and give them the garden
design that comes out. Be responsible and learn and educate yourself about
artificial intelligence. Because now you've
exposed yourself to a new tool and you need to
keep yourself in check. Go back and get
yourself educated. And as things change, keep yourself up
to date with it. Remember, AI is a powerful tool, but it's up to us to put it to the best use that
benefits society. We hope you've enjoyed
this class and are eager to put your newfound
knowledge to the test. Your garden awaits and
with a by your side, the possibilities are endless. Thank you for joining
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for taking this class. See you in the next class.
Azlan Mohammed Shakib, Permaculture | Aquaponics | Off-Grid
