Frost dates and what to plant monthly in 400+ cities; growing notes for 700+ plants; pest advice.
Scored across 6 tools
Most tools have clearly distinct roles: find_city searches by place, get_city_guide fetches by slug, get_pest and get_plant target different resource types, and planner_link is explicitly a link generator that creates nothing. The only mild overlap is between get_plant (per-plant agronomy) and what_to_plant (monthly city-specific sowing tasks), but the descriptions draw a workable line.
The get_* verb_noun pattern dominates (get_city_guide, get_pest, get_plant) and find_city fits naturally as its search counterpart, but planner_link is a noun_verb inversion and what_to_plant is a question-style phrase, so conventions are mixed. Names remain readable and self-explanatory despite the inconsistency.
Six tools is a lean but sensible surface for a garden planner: discovery, city data, plant data, pest data, a monthly task view, and a handoff link. It is slightly thin in that there is no listing/search tool for plants or pests, but no tool feels redundant.
The lifecycle from finding a city to getting a guide, monthly sowing advice, plant/pest detail and a planner link is largely covered. However, find_city has no analogue for plants or pests — get_plant and get_pest require already knowing a name, with no browse/search/list tool — which is a notable dead end for discovery-heavy queries.
Find g4rden's growing guides by place name, or the nearest guides to a latitude/longitude. Returns slugs to use with the other tools. Covers 1,000+ cities worldwide.
Inputs: lat, lon, query.
A city's growing guide as Markdown: average last and first frost dates (from a nearby weather station where there is one), the frost-free season, hardiness zone, climate, and the crops that suit it.
Inputs: city (required).
A garden pest or disease as Markdown: how to recognise it, which plants it attacks, and a treatment ladder from least to most drastic. Covers 46 common pests and diseases with treatment advice and about 390 plant-health records (host plants, where recorded, regulatory status) by common or scientific name.
Inputs: pest (required).
How to grow a plant (vegetable, herb, fruit or flower) as Markdown: spacing, sun, water, timing relative to frost, companions and pests.
Inputs: plant (required).
A link that opens g4rden's free garden planner already set to a city or location, for the person to open themselves. Creates nothing: the person decides whether to make an account.
Inputs: lat, lon, city, place.
What to start indoors, sow outdoors or plant out in a given city and month, as Markdown, from that city's own frost dates. Months with nothing new to sow say so and point to the next sowing month.
Inputs: city (required), month (required).
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