Methodology

Our methods depend on the question. A published guide can establish what its authors recommend. A worked example can show how a method fits together. Neither can tell you how your own home or garden will turn out.

The container-crop ledger

The container-crop ledger joins what five university extension services publish about twenty vegetables grown in containers: container volume and depth, plants per container, spacing and light. Each value keeps its source’s original units and conditions, with the source address and the date it was read. The only conversion is between stated volume units; no volume is inferred from a depth or diameter. Where sources differ, the ledger flags the difference and keeps both, without deciding which is right. Every joined value was checked a second time against its source. That second check was automated; review by a horticulture specialist is pending.

Worked examples

Routines, storage plans, wardrobe arrangements and garden worksheets are original examples with fictional households and spaces. They are checked for internal consistency, and they show a method rather than a measured result.

Calculations

Where a page computes something, such as whether a box fits through an opening, the calculation is run and published with its inputs. It is arithmetic: it does not establish that a real object fits, opens or carries a load.

Before sources are used

Each source’s terms are read before its facts are compiled, and sources whose terms prohibit compilation are left out. Only short, independently worded facts and links are published; no source text or images are copied.

What we publish

Compilations, worksheets and calculations are CC BY 4.0. Each data set’s method file, hash list and source ledger are published with it. Those licences do not relicense the sources’ own text or images.