Recommended Gardening Resources

Websites, Books and More for Gardeners

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This guide contains a wealth of knowledge to help you begin your journey into gardening or expand what you already know. Included are touching memoirs from experts, advice on preserving your bounty, links to encourage and inspire creativity in the garden, seasonal recipes, and retailers for everything from seeds to compost bins.

Gardening Websites

American Community Garden Association: www.communitygarden.org
No yard? No problem! The ACGA deeply believes that by sharing a garden, you bind your life with those in your community and improves people’s lives. Search an interactive map of community gardens across the nation and find information about how you can start or join a community garden in your area.
Backyard Gardener: www.backyardgardener.com
All types of gardening are discussed at this website—water, rock, edible, floral, trees, organic, and more. It contains the world’s largest plant encyclopedia. Everything you need to know for a successful vegetable garden is on this site!
Companion Planting: www.companionplanting.net
All you ever need to know about companion planting (the idea that placing certain plants close together can naturally control pests and increase yield) on one website! It includes a comprehensive list of vegetables, their friends and foes.
National Center for Home Food Preservation: www.uga.edu/NCHFP
The National Center for Home Food Preservation brings you the USDA’s complete guide to home canning. This resource will answer all of your questions on canning, freezing, drying, pickling and other methods of preserving the bounty from your backyard garden!
National Gardening Association: www.garden.org
This website houses a large library or projects, videos, and guides to plant care. The site includes a map to help you figure out your hardiness zone, which will equip you with knowledge about what you can and cannot grow in your climate. Subscribe to their email list and receive regional reports containing gardening tips, techniques, news, and events. Continued ›

Member Comments

MIKEINOR

A good source for heirloom seed varieties is www.VictorySeeds.
com - The Victory Seed Company is a family operated organization working to keep rare, heirloom, and other open-pollinated seed varieties available to home gardeners. No unstable hybrids, no GMOs, no chemically treated seeds. - 5/9/2013 1:28:10 AM
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WLACMOON

Organicgardening.
com has lots of info. WWW.seedsavers.or
g for seeds. - 2/22/2012 5:28:44 PM
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GARDENSTAR

davesgarden.com is a huge gardening site with forums, articles, and reviews of seed and gardening supply comapanies. There also is a forum on the Baker's Creek site that I like, called idigmygarden.com. It is for organic and heirloom seeds gardeners. - 1/1/2012 12:52:02 PM
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BOOKWERME

I love Gardener's Supply...both their catalogue and their website offer lots of information along with all the products from the mundane to the fun and unusual for gardens and yards. - 6/28/2011 9:46:54 PM
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MSDESERTRODENT

I am so suprised that Gardenweb.com is not mentioned on this. I've been using Gardenweb for the past 8 years or so and have found it full of information! - 3/11/2010 11:02:31 AM
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MOMS100

I've been getting "Organic Gardening" magazine, which is a help. - 3/4/2010 8:22:20 PM
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CRBEDELL

Seedland.com is a good resource as well - 8/13/2009 10:18:13 AM
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DUSTYSBUMMER

Vermont Bean Seed company sells a host of dry bean seeds, many of them heirloom. - 4/24/2009 3:44:15 PM
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TOWHEE

_Western Garden Book_ by Sunset Magazine for those of us that are west of the Rockies. - 4/21/2009 11:46:02 PM
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JIBBIE49

The OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC is available on-line and a great help with any planting. - 4/9/2009 4:17:37 PM
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LARUSE

Bakers Creek Heirloom Seeds are great.
http://rareseed
s.com - 4/6/2009 1:21:55 PM
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