About
Home Garden Lot publishes practical guides and free calculators for growing food, caring for lawns and plants, and improving your home on a budget. Every guide is checked against university extension research and public data from agencies such as NOAA and the USDA, and every calculator shows its formula.
What you'll find here
- How-to guides for vegetables, lawns, soil, compost, houseplants and simple home projects, written for U.S. homeowners with metric conversions for readers everywhere.
- Free garden calculators for mulch, soil, topsoil and gravel, lawn fertilizer, pavers and more, so you buy the right amount the first time.
- Data tools at tools.homegardenlot.com, including frost dates by ZIP code from 7,247 NOAA weather stations and a planting calendar by ZIP code.
Who's behind Home Garden Lot
Home Garden Lot is an independent site, started in 2022 as Garden Lot. It is run by a small, independent publisher, not a media company, and every guide is written and edited by the site's own editor.
We started the site because most gardening advice online is either too vague to act on or copied from somewhere else without checking. Our aim is simple: give you the exact numbers you need (how much, how deep, when) and show where every number comes from, so you can trust it or check it yourself.
Being small keeps us honest. We only recommend what the evidence supports, we say so when something is a judgment call, and we never pretend to have done something we haven't.
How we make our guides
- Start from the best sources. Planting dates, fertilizer rates, soil and pest advice come from land-grant university extension services, the USDA, NOAA and the EPA. Each guide lists its sources at the end.
- Check every number. Quantities, conversions and costs are calculated, not guessed. Our calculators use standard volume formulas and show how they work.
- Add real-world experience. Where we've done the job ourselves, we share what happened, including mistakes. Where we haven't, the guide relies on the research and says so.
- Keep it current. Guides show a "Last reviewed" date and are updated before each growing season.
The full process, including how we use AI writing tools and how we correct errors, is in our Editorial Policy.
How the site is funded
Home Garden Lot is free to read. We may earn money from display advertising and, on some pages, from affiliate links to products we'd recommend anyway. Advertisers never see articles before publication and never influence what we write. Details are in our Disclaimer & Affiliate Disclosure.
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