Grow things that actually survive you.
Warm, honest, fact-checked advice for every plant you own — from the tomatoes on the plot to the fig tree sulking in your kitchen. No guilt, no filler, no folklore.
Start with a plant
What your garden needs this month
Outdoors: Keep up watering and deadheading. Trim lavender lightly once the flowers fade to keep it compact.
Indoors: Going away? Group plants somewhere bright but sunless and water well before you leave.
Advice you can hold us to
The almanac, per plant
Every profile tells you what to do this season — not just what the plant is. Care advice with a calendar attached.
"Save your money" is built in
Every kit list has a tier of things we think you shouldn't buy. If a humidifier won't help your snake plant, we say so.
Sources on every page
Each profile ends with how we checked it — the horticultural and toxicity databases we verified against, and when.