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This is probably some "no shit!" information for some of y'all but I'll post it anyway.

I have been gardening for years and usually have pretty good success just because I live in a very warm area that makes it easy to grow stuff, but sometimes it's hit or miss. One of the problems is that if you look online for advice, it's rather vague and may or may not apply to your USDA zone or type of soil or whatever.... "Plant in April" may be appropriate for someone in Idaho but crop-ruining for someone in Louisiana, see. There's a lot of conflicting data out there so it's hard to know what to do sometimes.

I decided to finally direct my autist researching towards figuring out everything about the plants I like to grow, exactly what they need in terms of temperatures, soil pH, watering, etc, and when to plant them according to the old ways. My great uncle used to have a hell of a garden and he swore by the old farmer's almanac and planted with the moons. I'm gathering this data and writing it down in a notebook so that I have it if shit hits the fan.

It's been a really interesting project and I highly recommend it if you're a seat-of-your-pants gardener like me.

Here are some links that may help you:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/lcd - look up the historical data in your area. I just pulled up the entire year of 2020 as a 12-page PDF and got average temps throughout the year. Don't just guess - KNOW what happens each month. The wikipedia page on your city or a city close-by will sometimes have this data too.

https://www.almanac.com/gardening/growing-guides - The Old Farmer's Almanac guide to various plants. Each page will tell you temps they like, soil pH, etc

https://www.almanac.com/gardening/planting-calendar - type in your zip code and find out your first and last frost date and get average planting dates for various plants. I like to just use this to compare to my own dates I figured out with the NOAA data and it's lined up for the most part.

http://farmanddairy.lyleprintingandp.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/USDA-hardiness-zone.png?3b68ce - a map of USDA zones