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Gardening for beginners, perennial gardening, garden care, plant library, gardening Q&A, glossary of gardening terms, plus links to great garden-related information!

The National Garden Bureau was founded in 1920 to disseminate accurate information on gardening from seed. You'll find ideas plus hands-on information to decorate your outdoor living space with the beauty of flowers and vegetables.

Learn about chemical-free natural gardening and composting at this website.

An excellent free online reference designed to help gardeners identify and safely eliminate animal pests, diseases, and insects that can kill garden and house plants.

Here you'll find bushels of organic gardening tips, recipes, photos, stories and (of course) PlanTea. Need a lift? Read my newsletter, the "UpBeet Gardener."

Cheers and love,
Marion Owen, "Fearless Weeder" for PlanTea and
co-author of Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul.

An informal network of friends and acquaintances who garden organically for our own tables. We believe that widespread organic gardening can preserve the health of our environment and our economy, even as it preserves our own health and the health of our families. To help people benefit we offer a number of co-operative services to each other, such as sharing seed, offering classes in organic techniques, canning parties, and this website where we can share ideas. We are currently concentrating on bringing members' home gardens to full production and developing barter arrangements for labor and materials. Our goal is to bring each household as close as possible to producing all of its vegetable needs. We also want to produce surplus vegetables to be distributed to hungry families in the region and to encourage all gardeners to do the same.

Gardening by the phases of the moon is a technique that can speed the germination of seeds by working with the forces of nature. By following the suggestions in the calendar, and starting seeds inside, you can extend your season and harvest more abundance from your garden than you ever imagined!

GardenWeb is 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!

An extremely valuable, user friendly archive of gardening articles, photos, and germination databases written mostly in the mid-90's, with the earliest in 1993 and the most recent in 2002, as a public service in the spirit of cooperative extension. The primary purpose of these articles is to eliminate the repetitive nature of answering the same questions over and over every year on various gardening forums. You can go to one URL (this one) and get most if not all of the answers to your gardening questions. This website contains NO advertising and takes into account the needs of children doing school work, as well as the visually impaired.

Find out what pest or disease is invading your vegetable garden with this user-friendly free resource from Cornell University.

A website maintained by folks who garden. They are not a seed company and they do not sell seeds or gardening supplies. They provide information solely for the enjoyment of the Internet community and strive to provide independent information on gardening and seed starting. By choosing the right plants, tools, and techniques, and by breaking up activities into manageable, weekly tasks, you can enjoy a nice garden and even have time to relax in it. Be sure to check out their Top Picks of the best gardening websites on the internet. One of my favorite garden - gardening - and horticulture websites!

Selecting, maintaining and planting all types of outdoor planters for container gardening. Lots of ideas, inspiration and great information. Subscribe to our free newsletter!

Here you'll find links to many useful gardening and garden reference websites, including government websites - university websites - childrens garden websites - seed and plant websites - all to help you grow that perfect garden!

Over 600 varieties of 100% organic seeds for the home gardener and over 100 varieties in bulk for the market grower. Conserving this invaluable genetic resource, while contributing to the knowledge of sustainable organic agriculture and gardening techniques, is central to the mission of Seeds of Change.

Gardening articles and "how to" information for growing crops and food on the homestead.

The home gardener's one stop to find all the mail order garden catalogs in the US and Canada - over 2000 of them! Check here first to find the company and see its ratings for quality, service, price and breadth of varieties. Includes links to mail order companies outside North America, and other gardening related sites

Has a 5 star rating in customer satisfaction from Garden Watchdog. You'll find gardening supplies, plant grow lights, hydroponics systems, vegetable seeds, herb seeds, flower seeds, sprouting seeds, gardening books, and other gardening products.

We are a large and very active community of gardeners and farmers, sharing information, seeds, and plants. You'll find lots of useful info here, including:

• A Garden Plants Directory of over 63,000 plants and 37,000 plant photos
• A "Garden Watchdog" Directory of gardening-related mail order companies, rated by the members of Dave's Garden.
• Garden Book Reviews - over 1,300 books listed, and 224 book reviews posted.
• Botanical Dictionary, and Garden Terms Dictionary
• Free online Garden Journal - a valuable tool to help you keep track of your garden
• Trading tools, forum, community and more!

Let the BBC’s gardening websites get you started with fresh ideas. The Virtual Garden tool walks you through the process of designing your garden. You can do your work online or download the program to work offline.

DMOZ Open Directory links to websites containing how-to information on intensive gardening. Learn how to grow a Square Foot Garden - a Raised Bed Garden - a Container Garden - a Mittleider Method Soil Bed Garden or Grow Box Garden - and how to connect with and share information with other gardeners using intensive gardening techniques.