Garden

A lot of garden timing questions don't have a single universal answer, they depend on your specific climate, soil, and what you're growing. Generic advice like "stratify for a few weeks" or "plant after your last frost" glosses over how much that actually varies. This hub is built around the questions where a real number, tied to your inputs, beats a rule of thumb: how many chill hours your winter is delivering, how long a specific seed type needs cold stratification, and how large a rain garden needs to be for your roof, soil, and regional rainfall.

Sources here range from state extension services to published stormwater sizing worksheets. Every tool links to what it's built on, and where a state's own published figures exist (like Wisconsin and Iowa's rain garden guidance), we use those directly rather than a generic regional estimate.