plant · Growing Guides
Zone-aware guides for every crop in your garden — vegetables, mushrooms, fruit trees, and more.
75 crops
Cherry tomatoes to garlic, kale to watermelon. Zone-specific planting calendars and succession planting for every crop.
Explore crops5 mushrooms
Oyster, shiitake, lion’s mane, wine cap, and button. Grown indoors year-round — no garden or zone required.
Explore mushrooms25 trees & shrubs
Peach, apple, lemon, blueberry, raspberry and more. Zone-specific guides for planting, pruning, and harvesting for years to come.
Explore treesplant started with a simple belief — that growing your own food is better when you do it together. Every tip, every correction, every “here’s what actually worked in my garden” makes these guides more accurate, more useful, and more alive.
Trevor Lewis
Co-Founder, plant
Why grow your own
A tomato picked ripe from your garden and a tomato shipped 1,500 miles are not the same food. Home-grown produce is harvested at peak ripeness — something commercial growing can’t replicate.
You choose the soil, the seeds, and what goes on the plants. No pesticide residue to wonder about. Just food you understand completely because you grew it.
A $4 seed packet of basil replaces $3 supermarket bunches all summer. Garlic planted in October becomes 10x its weight by July. The math compounds in your favour.
Most backyards sit mostly unused. A 4×8 raised bed planted well can produce hundreds of pounds of food a year. The space is already there — it just needs a plan.
Children who grow vegetables eat them. There’s something about harvesting a carrot you watched grow from seed that makes it genuinely exciting to eat.
Gardening reduces cortisol, improves mood, and gives the kind of quiet focus that’s hard to find anywhere else. Time outside, hands in soil, something alive to tend.
Every guide page has a built-in way to flag an error or share a tip from your own garden. Found something wrong? Seen something work differently in your zone? We want to hear it.
Tips are reviewed before publishing. Accepted contributions earn a Founding Grower badge at launch.