Add Your Climate Zone to Your Profile

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Add Your Climate Zone to Your Profile

Written by The Mulch Team

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Please take a minute and add your climate zone to your profile - it's easy and we'll help! Click Here For a Tutorial of HOW to Find Your Climate Zone.

We're rolling out our new free personalized plant care system and we need to know your Climate or Hardiness Zone in order to better help you.

The plants that will grow best in your garden are the ones that are best-adaptable to your specific climate. That’s why it pays to know your climate zone. To identify your climate zone (and the plants recommended for it), we use the two most popular systems of climate zones in the USA, which are the USDA Hardiness Zones and the Sunset Climate Zones.

Although both systems are quite useful as a general guide to climate, they are different in their scope: the USDA Zones are based solely on average minimum temperatures, while the Sunset Zones take into account many different climate factors such as summer heat, duration of heat and cold, annual rainfall, humidity, and prevailing winds. Knowing your climate zone in both of these systems is essential to identifying which plants will grow well for you.

Please Take a Minute and Find Your Climate Zone and add it In Your Profile. It's even better if you find your zone in both systems.

Hover your mouse over any avatar and you'll see what zone another member is from (see below)

It's easy to do (YOU MUST BE LOGGED IN FIRST):

Step 1: Find Your Zone - Click Here For Tutorial

Step 2: Go To Your "Update My Profile" page - to do that Start by Hovering your mouse over the "My Profile" link, then by clicking on the "Update My Profile" link (see below):

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Step 3: It will take you to the "Edit Your Details" page. Click on the "My Profile" tab (seen below).

Step 4: Scroll down and select either your Sunset Climate Zone or your USDA Hardiness Zone (which you already found with our hand tutorial here).

Step 5: Click the UPDATE button at the Bottom of the page (be sure to scroll all the way down to find it!)

It's as easy as that - now you're all set. This will really help us connect valuable plant care information to your profile!

There are a number of tabs, each tab has information about your profile including fun profile questions (on your "My Profile" tab), the Forum discussions you're following, your newsletter preferences and much more. We suggest you take a few minutes and explore and tell a little about yourself and your gardening philosophies!