For years, I’ve heard you say the ads on my site were annoying and you wished you could read my articles without them. Well, I listened.

And I’m happy to share that Garden Betty now has an ad-free option if you’re tired of all the screen clutter!

FIRST THINGS FIRST: Garden Betty will ALWAYS be 100% free to read, as it is now. I’m not taking anything away.

My new ad-free option—called Garden Betty Plus—simply gives you another way to enjoy the site. For a low monthly fee (less than a cup of coffee), you can have all the ads removed for a cleaner, faster browsing experience on every device you log in from.

Not bothered by ads? Then everything stays exactly the same for you. No paywalls, no nagging popups asking for donations.

But I’m hoping you’ll want to join Garden Betty Plus because membership includes access to my NEW local weather forecast, Bloomcast. I’m very excited to launch this!

Bloomcast is a weather hub built specifically for gardeners. You enter your location (town, county, zip code, or nearest weather station) and get highly accurate weather forecasts right in your member dashboard. There’s no separate app to install, it lives on my site where you get all your other gardening info.

The hourly and daily forecasts give you:

• Min/max air and soil temperatures
• Precipitation and wind
• Cloud cover and UV index
• Relative humidity and dewpoint
• Sunrise and sunset times
• Daily sun path tracker
• Daylength
• Moon phases

And the coolest part of all… Special weather alerts that tell you:

• When a frost or freeze is expected
• When to watch out for heat waves or dry spells
• When a rain/snow/hail/wind storm is coming
• When disease pressure might be high because of heat and humidity
• When the soil is ready to plant in spring based on temps
• When the soil will probably freeze

I wrote these weather alerts myself, based on real-world growing conditions, and they apply anywhere in the world whether you’re in the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, or elsewhere.

​Bloomcast is an exclusive GB+ member perk and I hope you’ll love it and use it as much as I do. (It’s actually saved on my phone’s home screen so I can access it easily, no matter where I am.) The forecasts are pulled from major national and regional weather prediction models, and Bloomcast uses a best-match algorithm to pick the highest-resolution weather model available at any time, for any given location. That means you always get the most accurate and reliable weather data for your area!

So you get this super cool weather dashboard. You get zero ads and an uninterrupted browsing experience. You support an independent publisher who’s been here since 2010 (that’s me 👋 a team of one) and not some media conglomerate or AI slop.

AND… I’m also throwing in my new ebook called Don’t Follow This Bad Gardening Advice: 30 Common Garden Myths That Can Ruin Your Garden. It’s only for yearly memberships. You might be surprised by what’s been ingrained in old-school garden wisdom! (I’ve certainly fallen for some of these myths before.)

So why a membership? Why now?

The last couple years have been quite tumultuous with Google and AI giving publishers like me a big fat middle finger as they steal our content. That’s why so many sites these days are gating their content or moving to Substack subscriptions. I don’t love the idea of doing that, which is why I choose to keep 99% of my content free.

But I also want to provide some unique value for my members—not just offer to remove ads, or bundle in a bunch of things you'll probably never use, like "office hours" or checklists or worksheets. Which is how Bloomcast came to be—because we all need to know what the weather's doing, right? (It's also a custom weather hub you'll only find on Garden Betty!)

If you’re able to support my efforts, a membership may be worth it to you. But nothing changes if you’d prefer to keep reading Garden Betty for free. I’M STILL HERE because you consistently show up and share my site with others, which is the most important way you can help. So thank you. 🙏

​If and when you’re ready to join, GB+ membership is waiting for you right here.​

(All yearly memberships get my bonus free ebook sent straight to your inbox after joining.)