For the past few years I’ve been growing vegetables in my garden and allotment. As a cyber security professional, and a self proclaimed nerd, I really enjoy the data side of this - I tag plants with unique IDs and track their performance and yield to be able to compare how specific varieties do in different conditions and situations. A problem I encountered doing this is the data collection and aggregation step. I started with pen and paper, moved to spreadsheets, and this year finally took the leap towards a more technically mature setup. In this talk, I want to present my solution tentatively called GardenHQ involving NFC, iPhone automations and cloud computing. I will talk about the problem statement, the unique requirements and limitations a horticultural setup like mine faces, and walk the audience through the process of choosing the right tools for the job and actually building and testing the system. I will also demo the solution so we can all together examine how well vegetable growing has been going so far this year.