Contact OrchardHome

OrchardHome is a small, independent, ad-supported site — there is no support team standing by, but a real person reads what comes in to support@thepicko.com.

A few things this address is genuinely useful for: a calculator that gave you a result you think is wrong (say which tool — the harvest time calculator, tree spacing calculator, chill hours calculator, fruit yield estimator, pruning calendar, or jam sugar-ratio calculator — and what you entered); a fruit or tool you wish existed on the site; an out-of-date fact or broken link in the blog, learn section, or the museum; or a bug in how a page looks or behaves on your device.

There’s no fixed response time to promise, and no ticket number or live chat — email is read and handled as it comes in. If your question is really “will this variety fruit in my exact yard,” your local extension office or a nursery familiar with your climate will serve you better than this site can: OrchardHome provides general-purpose calculators and guides, not a soil test or a site visit.

Before writing in about a tool result, it’s worth double-checking the numbers you entered — a mixed-up hardiness zone, a Celsius/Fahrenheit mismatch, or a mistyped tree age is the most common source of a surprising answer. If it still looks off after that, that’s exactly the kind of message worth sending.