Startergarden is an online gardening resource of the best, most reliable information about how to grow plants and how to better take care of your lawn and garden on the Internet. Learn professional gardening.

When we first started learning how to grow things, we did not always plant things when we should have. We went through a lot of ups and downs regarding what will thrive in certain conditions. Now you will get to learn from our mistakes.

Actually, we do trial gardens. We research each article before we write it. So when we write a zone 9b planting calendar, or a zone 6b flower planting schedule, for you, we have our writers study the plants and gardens of the university. We do this real work, and thus we give real information.

Who Are We?

Startergarden are expert gardeners, teachers, plant lovers, and garden writers with many years of experience, all sharing their knowledge and skills with you because there’s too much wrong information online. We learned that flower planting times in spring and identifying dormant grass are highly confusing. Our writers have years of experience growing plants, performing tests, and gardening in a variety of scenarios.

We know that not everyone has a garden, so our staff has researched every aspect of desert gardening, apartment gardening, and foraging for food in tight places. Every one of them is helpful in some way.

What We Offer?

If you want to learn all about gardening, how to grow beautiful plants, and tips on square foot gardening cucumbers and square foot gardening zucchini, we’re here for you. We write about how to prune spider plants, what carrot leaves look like, and how to tell the first carrot sprouts.

For each gardening zone and season, we have guides with questions such as when to plant sweet peas, what is pumpkin planting season, how often to use cinnamon on plants, and we explain California Wonder Pepper growing for beginners. We’ll help you understand which trees you should avoid if you want to reduce allergies, and why.

Startergarden also covers seasonal home gardening tasks. We have a spring yard clean-up checklist that covers everything about learning the basics of plant care. Home gardening questions are answered. These questions include how much sun a Christmas cactus needs, and zinnias are easy to grow. We avoid jargon. We use basic terms to explain difficult concepts.

Our Philosophy

Everyone deserves access to good garden advice that’s honest and accurate. That’s why we share tested methods and real advice with sources, and research and fact-check every article we publish.

We want to inform people about what they seek. Gardening can be hard. We want to break it down to the basics. Startergarden lets you feel confident about your gardening.

Everything we do is rooted deeply in honesty. We test our advice within real gardens. We explain the reason for things working this way. We help you make good decisions in order for you to avoid being misled or wasting your time and money.

Community & Collaboration

Startergarden is for the gardener, for the student, for the plant nerd. It’s a place for learning. People can learn from each other there. Our comments and forums section allows readers to ask questions and receive responses.

We work with expert gardeners, authors, and plant scientists so that you can always get the best information from us. We also cooperate with other organizations that seek the same information as we do.

We hope this constructive dialogue will allow all questions about any aspect of the garden to be asked and answered, everyone still has something to contribute and learn about gardening.

Future Vision

We envision a future where everyone can learn how to garden when they need to. Startergarden plans to cover more climates and styles of gardening. We will have more guides for uncommon plants and more new research in the future, and we hope you will come to consider us your go-to source as you grow as a gardener.

Our team of gardening specialists will keep testing new techniques and visiting gardens, while universities support us with vital research. That informs our creation of improved guides from science and from real actions.

We’re developing tools for you. The tools help you find what you’re looking for. Our plant care guides and schedules are organized in a database by our team. Features to connect with our community can be expected from Startergarden.

Startergarden will continue to evolve with new knowledge and research, and remain focused on providing gardening education that is honest and about learning. We care. The sources of our content appear in every article, which allows you to verify everything.