Affiliate Disclosure
If a link can earn us money, you should know before you click.
Garden Field Book uses affiliate links and may display advertising. Those relationships can help support the site, but they do not get to decide what fits your garden, what you need to buy, or whether you need to buy anything at all.
The Short Version
Last updated: September 17, 2026 ยท Applies to: gardenfieldbook.com
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Garden Field Book participates in the Amazon Associates Program. Some links to Amazon are affiliate links, which means Garden Field Book may earn a commission from qualifying purchases or other qualifying activity after you follow one of those links.
Using an affiliate link does not add a fee from Garden Field Book to your purchase. Price, payment, shipping, returns, availability, seller terms, and checkout remain with Amazon or the retailer handling the transaction.
What an Affiliate Link Actually Means
An affiliate link carries referral information. If you follow that link and your activity qualifies under the retailer’s current program rules, Garden Field Book may receive a commission.
That is the commercial part. It does not make a plant better suited to your climate, make a raised bed fit a narrow yard, turn the wrong watering setup into the right one, or make a tool worth owning just because it can be linked.
Retail prices, stock, sellers, bundles, product pages, and commission rules can change without notice. A link is a route to a retailer, not a guarantee that the listing will stay exactly as it appeared when an article was written.
The Garden Comes Before the Product
Garden Field Book starts with the job in front of you: what you are trying to grow, fix, maintain, move, water, prune, build, or make easier. The useful constraints come next: space, climate, soil, light, workload, storage, maintenance, and budget.
A product earns a place only when it solves something inside that decision. A higher price, longer feature list, larger capacity, heavier construction, or more complicated design is not automatically an upgrade.
Sometimes the useful answer is a cheaper tool. Sometimes it is a simpler method. Sometimes the thing you already own is enough. And sometimes there is no good reason to buy anything.
The Boundaries Stay the Same
The recommendation has to fit the actual garden job before the presence of an affiliate link matters.
Cost, storage, maintenance, setup, compatibility, capacity, material limits, and reasons to skip a product do not disappear because a link is monetized.
Manufacturer specifications, manuals, retailer details, Extension guidance, and independent evidence are not rewritten as personal testing or ownership.
If buying something new would not meaningfully improve the job, the article should be free to say so.
Listings Change Faster Than Gardens Do
Online product pages can change quickly. Sellers rotate, model generations overlap, bundles change, specifications get copied incorrectly, and an item that was available yesterday may be unavailable tomorrow.
When a recommendation depends on an exact capacity, dimension, material, compatibility detail, included part, warranty term, or model feature, Garden Field Book may rely on current manufacturer documentation or another appropriate source rather than treating a marketplace listing as the final technical authority.
Before ordering, check the exact model, seller, current price, included items, and return or warranty terms on the live listing.
Affiliate Is Not the Same as Sponsored
An affiliate relationship means Garden Field Book may earn money when qualifying activity follows a tracked link. It does not mean Amazon writes, reviews, approves, or sponsors Garden Field Book’s editorial content.
If the site later publishes content involving a different material commercial relationship that needs its own disclosure, that relationship should be identified where it matters instead of being buried inside this general page.
Advertising Is Separate
Garden Field Book may also earn revenue from display advertising. Ads can appear around editorial content, but they do not determine which gardening method, plant choice, tool, material, or product an article must favor.
Advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies for ad delivery, measurement, frequency control, fraud prevention, and, depending on your settings and consent choices, personalization.
For information about Google’s advertising technologies, see Google’s cookie information and My Ad Center.
Why This Is Stated Clearly
A financial connection can matter when you judge a recommendation. You should not need to inspect a URL, recognize an affiliate tag, or guess whether Garden Field Book can benefit financially from a product link.
The Federal Trade Commission publishes guidance about endorsements and material connections. You can review The FTC’s Endorsement Guides: What People Are Asking. Amazon Associates also requires participating publishers to identify their relationship appropriately.
Where commercial links appear in editorial content, the goal is simple: make the relationship visible before it can influence a buying decision.
Something Unclear?
If an affiliate relationship is unclear, a disclosure appears to be missing, or you want to understand why a product link appears in a guide, contact Garden Field Book. You can also read the Editorial Policy for the standards used when researching and writing the site’s content.