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Almanac.com - The Old Farmer's Almanac has been published ever since George Washington was president. This almanac gives the best time to plant crops, helps to determine the weather long in advance, and has lots of cool old sayings (these are called aphorisms ). People have used and enjoyed the Old Farmer's Almanac throughout history. Now, parts of this publication are available on the Internet. You can see weather predictions, read some old-timey quotes, and find a great history of the almanac. Whether you live on a farm or in a city high-rise apartment, you'll like this site.
Better Homes & Gardens--Gardening - Special features include seasonal articles, questions of the week, news from the test garden, planning and planting guides for all regions and seasons, garden projects, garden maps, and flower show reports.
Bloomin' Flower Cards - Small manufacturer of hand-crafted, earth friendly, note cards that grow! Seeds are actually embedded in the handmade paper.
Butterfly and Hummingbird Gardening - Learn how you can create a beautiful garden to attract both butterflies and hummingbirds to your backyard. Perhaps you will catch a lovely butterfly as it flutters by!
City Farmer's Urban Agriculture Notes - This site is from Canada's office of Urban Agriculture, a non-profit organization that promotes urban food production and environmental conservation. Subjects include rooftop gardens, composting toilets, air pollution and community development. It encompasses mental and physical health, entertainment, building codes, fruit trees, herbs, recipes and more.
Garden Gate - This great jumping-off point is blooming with links to help you figure out how to make your garden grow. You'll find resources on pest control, plant identification, wildflowers, water gardens, deer-resistant plants, composting, perennials, and much more. Be sure to visit this site when you've got time to smell the roses, because there's enough here to keep you busy all day!
Garden Spot - Organic gardening advice free from Mort Mather. Plus books, pictures, articles, techniques, tips, hints, and answers to questions about organic pest control and organic weed control which starts with healthy soil and plants. Mort Mather is a father, organic farmer, author (a book and numerous magazine articles), and environmentalist.
Garden.com - Garden.com, the ultimate one stop shop virtual garden center provides over 14,000 related garden products and in-depth garden content and instruction. You can ask gardening questions of our garden doctor (this doctor is always in!), design your own garden with our on-site garden planner, buy seeds, plants, and tools in our online shopping area, and read about current gardening trends in garden.com magazine. You can even chat with other gardeners 24 hours a day. And a lot more!
GardenBed - You'll dig up plenty of information on all types of plants in the Garden Bed. Not only are there plant reviews and gardening tips, but readers can also submit their own gardening adventures, whether they are master gardens, humorous displays, or garden disasters. If you are looking for databases of plants and photos, they have found them for you.
GardenNet - The premier gateway to gardening on the Internet has everything the Garden Enthusiast could want online!
GardenWeb - The largest gardening site on the Web, with garden forums, articles on gardening, directories of nurseries, gardens and gardening organizations, a botanical glossary, an events calendar, a plant database, contests, and much more!
Herb Gardening - Welcome to Herb Gardening-This site offers a chance to see the world from an herbal point of view; to garden with herbs and how to use them.
HomeArts: Bloom - Tour picturesque gardens, learn valuable gardening tips, get weekly advice from Ms. Grow-It-All, search the online encyclopedia and trade with other gardeners in the Seed Swap.
HomeStore.com - Find, buy and move. Own and improve. Maintain and sell. Hundreds of useful articles and projects for the do-it-yourselfer, gardener, home decorator, sewing enthusiast, and budget-conscious homeowner.
Kitchen Gardener - Produced by The Taunton Press, this site goes straight to today's master craftspeople to get the tips and techniques you need to guarantee success. Recipes, articles, tips and a magazine centered around kitchen gardening.
Lawn & Garden at Homestore.com - Learn the best ways to grow a thriving garden, raise beautiful blooms, and maintain a lush landscape with the experts at the Homestore.
Martha Stewart Living: Gardening - Talk with other gardeners in daily live discussions, exchange advice on bulletin boards, join gardening editors and expert guest in the question and answer hours, and many other resources for gardeners.
Organic Lawn Care for the Cheap and Lazy - With these methods you will mow less, water less, never buy pesticides, and have the best looking lawn on your block.
Rot Web Home Composting Information Site - This is the lowdown on dirt (for those of you who have a sense of humus). It gives basic information about home composting. You can find out how to build compost heaps of every description--some even including worms. If you want to see a heap in action, there's a nationwide list of composting demo sites. It's a "rotten" Web site, and that's why we've included it!
Seeds of Change Garden - What's a Seeds of Change garden? It's a combination of green thumb and cultural exchange. Before Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492, there were "Old World" plants native to Europe and "New World" plants native to the Americas. People's food choices were limited to what grew nearby; if oranges didn't grow in their village, for example, they would never get to taste one. Exploration and trade with other nations changed all that. Read about how schools are growing Old World and New World gardens and a third garden based on seeds from traditional fruits and vegetables saved from their home kitchens. This terrific site will tell you all about the history of food crop plants and how you can create your own Seeds of Change garden! You'll find recipes here, too.
The Butterfly WebSite - Do you know what the first butterflies of spring are? Here's a hint: they have a blue sparkle about them. Give up? The azure butterflies are the first, followed by the sulphurs, then the whites. But you don't have to wait for spring to see butterflies. There are hundreds of butterflies and moths waiting for your discovery year-round. Find out how to locate moths and butterflies any time of the year. Learn about butterfly gardening and which flowers and plants attract butterflies and encourage them to lay eggs.
The Garden Helper - Gardening and landscape advice, tips, and help for the beginner as well as for the veteran gardener. Budding gardeners can learn the right way to grow plants and flowers, trees and shrubs. With guides showing how to create, maintain, and cultivate a variety of different types of home gardens, as well as detailed instructions for different landscaping projects.
The Telegarden - Now here's a garden for the millennium, where Web cruisers gather to plant seeds and water plants by the remote control of an industrial robotic arm. This started as a real garden at the University of Southern California, although last year it moved to a server in Austria. The idea is to bring together a community of people to help tend a "shared garden." Click on Guest Entrance at the bottom of the page. You can explore the garden by clicking on a drawing of the robotic arm. This moves the arm--and a camera--to give you an up-to-the-minute picture of what's going on. Every so often, they clear the garden and start over. If you register as a member and visit the site regularly, you'll get to plant a seed.
Virtual Garden - OK, you live in Colorado and have a shady front yard. You really like red flowers, but your soil is very poor. Is there anything you can plant? Go into the TIME-LIFE Plant Encyclopedia and search the database of thousands of plants to find out which ones will work, what they look like, and how to take care of them. Maybe you already know the name of the plant you want to grow and are just looking for some watering or pruning tips. Everything you need to know is here! When nothing can grow outside, search for a house plant in the House Plant Pavilion. If your parents find out about this site, watch out: you may get to do some weeding. But remember, a weed is just a plant for which a use has not yet been discovered.
Virtual Gardener - A home garden magazine for gardens and gardeners. Heirloom seeds garden books children's books. Helping you make the perfect choices for all your home gardening needs. Archived information on proper tree planting, pruning, potted plants and much more.
WebGarden - Yikes! Your carrots have weevils all over them, and the bottoms of your tomatoes are covered with black spots. Who ya gonna call? Ohio State University's WebGarden Factsheet Database, that's who. It's a megacollection of links to gardening fact sheets from the United States, Canada, and all over--complete with a handy little search form. In the case of your weird tomatoes, for example, all you have to do is type "tomatoes" and "black spot" into the title part of the form and hit Search for expert advice and instant relief. Try the WebGarden main pages for a gardening dictionary and more on watching your garden grow.
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