About
Gardening,
by zone.
ZonePlant is a zone-aware gardening reference. Every recommendation is grounded in your USDA hardiness zone, not generic advice that ignores where you actually live. The site organizes planting calendars, frost dates, pest and disease pressure, grafting compatibility, and companion planting around the zones that determine what will actually thrive on your property.
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How content is built
Crop, zone, and grafting data come from public sources: USDA, NOAA Climate Normals, university extension publications (Cornell, UC Davis, WSU, NC State), and CC-licensed plant taxonomy databases. Sources are cited where specific data is referenced.
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Programmatic prose
Page text is generated programmatically from structured data and reviewed against the same citations. The data underlying each page is unique, which is what makes the recommendations useful. Templates that only swap crop names without changing the underlying guidance are not the goal.
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Editorial pace
Pages update when data updates. We do not publish daily filler; if there is nothing new to say about apples in zone 7b, the page does not change.
Editorial principles
- 01 If a recommendation depends on a specific number (chill hours, frost date, disease incidence), cite the source.
- 02 Prefer disease-resistant varieties and IPM approaches. Spray programs are noted but not the default.
- 03 Acknowledge uncertainty. Regional variation matters and a published number is rarely the whole story.
- 04 Keep the voice practical, experienced, and skeptical of conventional wisdom that has not been verified.
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