Organic · No-spray · Research-backed
Garden advice that has actually been checked.
Most garden advice online is repeated, not checked. It gets copied from one blog to the next until nobody remembers where it started, and a fair amount of it is simply wrong — the ladybugs you release mostly leave, the compost you keep adding can eventually cause a problem, and the frost date you planted around was a coin flip you did not know you were taking.
How this site works
Research first, then advice.
This site is an attempt at the other thing. Every claim here traces back to university extension research or published trial data, linked so you can check it yourself. Where the research is ambiguous or where good sources disagree, it says so instead of picking whichever answer makes the better headline.
The focus is organic and no-spray growing — soil, pests, seed starting, and berries — for people growing food at home rather than at scale.
Traced to the source
Claims link to university extension research or published trial data.
Honest about uncertainty
Where good sources disagree, the guides say so.
Home scale
Written for people growing food at home, not farms.
The guides
Start with a silo
Five in-depth hubs, each linking out to the research behind it.
Organic Gardening, Actually
What the labels mean, what certification covers, and the half of the small-producer rule everyone omits
Read the guide →Building Garden Soil
Testing before amending, and why more compost is not always better
Read the guide →No-Spray Pest and Disease Management
What works, what is folklore, and why "organic" does not mean "safe for bees"
Read the guide →Seed Starting and Season Extension
Frost date probability, soil temperature, and getting transplants through hardening off
Read the guide →Growing Berries Organically
Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and the diseases that arrive on the plants
Read the guide →Quick lookups
Reference
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Start Here has the shortest useful path through the site.