Gardening is not hard, all you need to do are certain things at certain times to have a beautiful yard and gardent. The problem is that 1. You often don't know what to do and 2. You don't know when to do it. You can find this information on the web, but if you find out in August that you should cut back your Lavender in March, will you remember?

When you join GardenToDo, you have a place to store that information and way to be reminded of those garden tasks in a timely manner. What's more, once you or anyone has entered that helpful tip, we all benefit.

So are we. That is why we started the site. It wasn't that we were great gardeners with lots of great information to share. It's that we were bad gardeners often flummoxed about what to do. What we could do is program a website. Well, we'll see about that too.

It is really a collection of links or Favorites pointing to the actual plant pages. Putting a plant in "your garden" means that you will get email tasks associated with them at the appropriate time.

Any time you want! If you have a plant in your garden and you want to create a list of annual tasks for the plant, add a new plant. Please do a quick seach first to see if it already exists - you can edit that plant to add new information to it.

In a sense, we haven't yet. Each plant can have a hardiness zones listed and each member can have their hardiness zone listed. It is not clear to me how different management of plants will be across zones - and whether people want that much detail.

I have thought about allowing users to get their emails early, if for example they live in a colder climate. It seems to me that there are so many variables - amount of sun, soil, water and other micro-conditions that we could never get them all addressed. So I decided to start simple and go from there - you feedback is much appreciated.

According to Wikipedia:

A hardiness zone is a geographically-defined zone in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing, as defined by temperature hardiness, or ability to withstand the minimum temperatures of the zone. The zones were first developed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and have subsequently been adopted elsewhere. They are categorized according to the mean of the lowest temperature recorded each winter, termed the "average annual minimum temperature". Thus if five successive winters reach respective minima of −14 °C, −12 °C, −8 °C, −16 °C, and −13 °C, the mean coldest temperature is −12.6 °C, placing the site in zone 7.