Editorial Policy
How we research, write, check and correct the advice on Garden Grove — and what we will never do.
How we research
Our starting points are USDA hardiness zone data and NOAA frost records for dates and zones, and established horticultural practice for care and growing advice. When a fact cannot be verified, we write safe general guidance without specific numbers rather than inventing one.
Honest dates and numbers
Frost dates are always presented as zone averages and ranges, never as exact dates for a ZIP code or a particular year. We never invent search volumes, rankings, traffic figures or guarantees about results, and we never present a guess as a fact.
Every page must earn its place
Every guide on this site is written to be genuinely useful, with real data, steps and answers — not a template with a keyword swapped in. Pages that cannot offer real value are not published.
Corrections
When a reader points out an error, we check it and fix the page. Significant corrections are noted on the page. You can report an error through our Contact page.
Affiliates and independence
We may earn commissions from some product links (see our Affiliate Disclosure), but affiliate relationships never decide what we recommend or what our calculators say.