About Eating Garden
Grow what you eat.
Eating Garden is a small independent site about growing food you actually want to eat, from a single pot on a windowsill to a few raised beds.
How every guide is made
Eating Garden uses AI to help draft and review its guides. David Choi runs the site and has authorized automated editorial checks for sourcing, clarity and completeness. These checks are not a review by a gardening expert.
Growing advice is checked against university extension programs, the public research services that study what grows where. Those sources are listed on each page, so you can read them yourself. When a source does not give a number, such as the days until harvest, the page leaves it out rather than guessing.
Where planting dates come from
U.S. planting dates use NOAA frost records and monthly temperatures, alongside USDA hardiness data. Places outside the U.S. use named weather-station records or documented climate estimates. Where frost is rare, monthly warmth guides timing instead. They are based on historical climate records, not a weather forecast, so a warm or cold year can shift them.
A hardiness zone describes how cold your winters get. It does not set planting dates on its own, and the site says so rather than implying otherwise.
Who makes it
Every page on Eating Garden is written, built and maintained by David Choi, an independent maker based in Los Angeles. David is not a horticulturist, and the site never claims to be reviewed by one. He chooses which crops to cover, reads the university extension sources behind every page, and writes and checks each guide with AI help. His name is on every page because he is the one responsible for what it says.
There is no account to sign up for.
Growing advice varies with your climate and variety, so treat every guide as a well-sourced starting point and watch how your own plants respond.
Spotted something that looks wrong for your garden, or have a question? Write to [email protected].
The music
The play button above the garden painting on the homepage plays a quiet piano piece while you browse.
- Piece
- “Clair de lune” from Suite bergamasque, by Claude Debussy
- Piano
- Laurens Goedhart, recorded 2011
- Edit
- Slowed, with a little reverb, using Pitch Changer
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Good places to start
- Browse every crop, with filters for space, sunlight and patience.
- Read the gardening guides, from soil to watering.
- See what the site stores and the terms of use.
