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• Above-Ground Insects

• All about Square Foot Gardening Dedicated to Intensive Gardening Easy Steps To Square Foot Garden Success Its really not hard to set up a Square Foot Garden with these helpful hints.

• All-America Selections (AAS) All of these garden seed varieties have been tested by a network of independent judges at test gardens all over the US.

• Annoying Lawn Weeds Par Excellence: Crabgrass and Dandelions

• Atlantic Giant Pumpkins

• Battling Armyworms in Southern Lawns

• Be Wary Of These Types of Weeds

• Boulder Vegetable Rights Association Patch Home Page

• Broccoli Town, USA This has it all, Nutrition Facts, Clipart, Cookbook, History and Trivia.

• Broccoli Website

• B's Cucumber Page

• California Fresh Tomatoes a Consumer's guide to Tomato recipes, Facts & Fun, also tips & topics for foodservice professionals & Retailers

• Canberra (Australia) Organic Growers Society

• Canberra Organic Growers' Society Inc Companion Planting

• Carrots FAQ

• Chiles and Tomatos

• Common Lawn Weeds and How to Beat Them

• Companion Plants A list of antagonists and companions for flowers, veggie and herb gardens.

• Cornell Plant Pathology Vegetable Disease Web Page. Vegetable MD Online was developed to provide access to the many Vegetable Disease Fact Sheets produced over the years by Media Services at Cornell. The addition of color photographs enhances the use of these sheets for plant disease diagnosis.

• Dandy Lion-taming in Your Lawn

• Dealing with Weed Grass

• Don't Bag It™ - Compost It! - Guidelines on Making and Using Compost

• Don't Bag It™ - Leaf Managment - Alternatives to Filling Landfills Wtih Leaves

• Drought Information - News Articles on Landscape Water Conservation

• Earth-Kind Plant Selector - Search for plants with the best drought, heat and pest tolerance.

• Earth-Kind Podcasts - Archive of the podcast series focusing on sustainable landscape principles and practices.

• Earth-Kind Roses - Low input roses for sustainable landscapes.

• Edible Landscaping Index

• Edible Landscaping Primer

• Efficient Use of Water in the Garden & Landscape - Recommendations on Conserving Water

• Essential Gardening Guide Everything you need to know about backyard gardening, including planting, caring for and harvesting your vegetable garden.

• Extending your growing season

• Fall Gardening by Jerry Parsons, Professor and Extension Horticulturist, San Antonio and Larry Stein, Associate
  Professor and Extension Horticulturist, Uvalde

• Farm and Garden This is there vegetable page it will tell you how to grow each individual vegetable.

• Farmer Brown based on the Square Foot Gardening System, a great system using less space and for a person with limited time.

• Fertilizing Vegetable Garden Soils, HYG-1601-92 Among the necessary plant nutrients arecarbon, hydrogen and oxygen, available from the atmosphere and from water; and nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium,

• Fighting Dandelions in Your Lawn the Natural Way

• Five Tips to Wack Those Weeds

• Food for Everyone Foundation We are a Foundation dedicated to teaching the best vegetable gardening techniques and procedures, with experience worldwide in 29 countries. We have free training, tips and techniques, as well as gardening books and CD's for sale.

• Frequently Asked Vegetable Questions University of Missouri Extension Alphabetized list of vegetables with frequently asked gardening questions.

• Fruit & Vegetables factsheets from Delaware Cooperative Extension.

• Getting Rid of That Pesky Crabgrass

• Grassy Weeds

• Grow Green - Recommended Earth Kind practices for the Austin area

• Growing Grass without Growing Weeds: It Can Be Done

• Growing Vegetables in Containers from Cornell Cooperative Extension

• Growing Vegetables In The Home Garden A informative article from the US Dept. of agriculture

• Harvesting vegetables (A-F) From the University of Saskatchewan

• Harvesting vegetables (G-T)  

• Heirloom Vegetable Gardener's Assistant" Heirloom vegetables--those old, open-pollinated varieties that have stood the test of time--have become popular all over again, and for good reason. The best of them are among the finest vegetables ever known.

• Herb Companions in Garden and Kitchen Useful culinary herbs and their pest deterring properties from the Old Farmer's Almanac.

• Home Grown Tomatoes Features interactive garden plan, journal, photos, links, and message board.

• Home Vegetable Gardening Detailed information from North Carolina State University, including a visual garden plan, planting calendar, and much more.

• Homestead Harvest "Preserving the Garden", where each month you'll discover unknown gardening tips, organic remedies for pest and disease control, canning recipes, plant profiles, current sales, and more. 

• How to Build a Compost Bin Create your own compost bin to produce your own rich, beneficial soil additive!
• How to Build a Rain Barrel  Some of the tools are specialized and can be costly. However, recommended less expensive alternatives are discussed. You can put your own rain barrel together for about $20
• How to Build Worm Bin  A worm composing system can be easily started by following these five steps:...
• How to Make a Raised Bed Garden  Creating a raised bed usually includes a great deal of spading, possibly a multiyear process, but the following method permits great success in the first year after a farely simple soil modification process.
• How stuff works Potatoes Four articles on Potatoes 1. Potatoes Description 2. Growing Potatoes 3. Selecting Potatoes 4. Health Benefits of Potatoes
• In Texas, Everything is Bigger... Including the Weeds

• Intensive gardening methods

• Landscape IPM - Integrated Pest Management techniques to manage landscape pests.

• Lawn Treatment for Fire Ant Problems

• Make Your Own Stepping Stones  It's a great way to create a design, other than with plants, in your garden.

• Master Gardener Online Training - Receive certificates in Earth-Kind Environmental Stewardship.

• Market Gardening: A Start-up Guide - not Texas but good article

• Mr. Tomato Ltd.  garden tips and products that promote early growth of tomatoes, healthy houseplants, begonias, and more.

• Mulches for the Home Vegetable Garden  Mulching is a practice adaptable to nearly all home gardens. To mulch is simply to cover the soil around plants with a protective material, organic or inorganic.

• Mushroom Heaven

• North American Mycological Associationis an organization of individuals, families and local clubs dedictedto the study and enjoyment of mushrooms

• Organic Vegetable Gardening- Vegetable-Gardens.co.uk A new, fresh looking, friendly site aimed at helping you, the gardener, grow wonderful fresh, tasty vegetables and fruit.

• Planning the Home Landscape - Tips and ideas on creating a sustainable landscape.

• Planting by the Moon May the Force be with you while sowing seeds, mowing the lawn, pruning roses, composting, watering and more!

• Praying mantis Preys on Insect Pests

• Problem Solver Guides - Visual Problem Diagnosis Guides

• Pumpkin NookThe internet authority on pumpkins, including how to grow, facts and information, Halloween, Thanksgiving, pumpkin cookbook, fun and games and much more

• Rainwater Harvesting

• Recipe using Borax to get rid of Cheeping Charlie (ground ivy).

• Removing the Clover from Your Lawn? Don't!

• Rhubarb Compendium This is a clever and complete site on rhubarb including its uses, botany, distribution, propagation, forcing, recipes, even toxicity in green leaves.

• Seeds of Hope Harvest of Pride A newsletter for Community Vegetable Gardeners

• Smart Weeding: Save Your Back with These 5 Easy Tips

• Supercharged Compost Tea: The ULTIMATE Disease-Fighting Plant Food?

• Southern Lawns and Greyleaf Fungus

• Square Foot Gardening Much of the information for this pages comes from members of the

• Starting seeds FAQ regarding seeds and transplants

• Take the Earth-Kind Challenge - Is your landscape contributing to a healthy and sustainable environment?

• Texas Smartscape - Landscape Water Conservation

• Texas Superstar - Selected Landscape Plant Materials

• Texas "Two Step" method for killing fire ants

• Texas Urban Landscape Guide

• Texas WaterWise Council - Promoting water conservation practices in Texas

• The Corn Growers Guidebook The objective of the Corn Growers Guidebook (CGG) is to offer a Web-based encyclopedia of knowledge about the production, marketing and usage of corn in North America.

• The Gardener's Network Contains guides on how to garden with various vegetables.

• The Great Mexican Chile The chile is one of the attributes that identify the Mexican culture.

• The horticulturists at the Louisiana Ag Center have put together this helpful online publication called Grow Tomatoes in the Garden. It includes a useful and up-to-date listing of varieties, as well as tips on proper planting, staking, caging, fertilizing, and pest management. All in all, it is a very useful resource for southern gardeners.

• The Pumpkin Nook:devoted to recording everything about pumpking growing.

• The Vegetable Patch Ensure success when growing your own veggies! Check out The Vegetable Patch. Here you'll find an abundance of tips and advice covering organic growing, creating a 'no-dig' garden, companion planting, crop rotation and much much more. For those who are renting, living in an apartment, or just plain out of space - make sure you don't miss the article on container gardening.

• This is Broccoli!!

• This Page Stinks! - Garlic

• This site has tips for becoming a vegetarian, information on specific vegetables, some suggested recipes, and cooking lessons. Detailed information on nutrition discusses proteins, carbohydrates, dietary fibre, fats & oils, vitamins and minerals. The trickiest goal is to meet the protein, vitamin and mineral requirements.

• Toads: Nature's Pest Control Service

• Tomato Questions - Cornell University

• Typical Lawn Weeds and How to Handle Them

• Unofficial World Class Giant Pumpkin You won't believe the size of these pumpkins!

• Vegetable Crops Vegetable cultivation information, vegetable newsletters from Penn Stat U.

• Vegetable Garden Basics is about helping the beginner to get started and easily learn the basics of how to grow vegetables. Basic guides on planning, design, sowing, planting and problem solving are covered.

• Vegetable Garden Harvest Organic Herb and Vegetable growing information to increase the harvest of your vegetable garden, and grow beneficial herbs.

• Vegetable Gardening Club. This web site has been set up to encourage new gardeners and for the more experienced vegetable grower, to learn and discuss tips and tricks of vegetable gardening.

• Vegetable Gardening Handbook Veggie gardening from A-Z. Info on individual vegetables, soil, planting--everything.

• Vegetable Gardening Online Newsletter offers indoor and outdoor vegetable gardening solutions.

• Vegetable Gardens of the Columbia Basin A vegetable gardening website for the semi-arid Columbia Basin in South Central Washington State. Also applicable to other semi-arid zone 6 and zone 7 locations.

• Vegetable Gardens Weekly articles and lots of information.

• Vegetable Information From Amaranth -Watermelon. From TX A&M Horticulture

• Vegetable MD Online Vegetable Disease Fact Sheets produced over the years by Media Services at Cornell University.

• Vegetable Technology For each vegetable listed there is a myriad of information including: general information, botanical descriptions, recommended cultivars, crop requirements, cultural practices, pest management, harvest & handling, economics.

• Vegetable/Herb Information Leaflets from NC State University all in PDF format.

• Vinegar: A Natural Weed Killer

• Watch your garden grow a guide to growing storing and preparing vegetables from the University of Illinois
• Wallop Weeds with Soap, Flame, Vinegar or Heat!

• Watching for Winter Weeds

• Weed Control for New Lawns

• Weed Control in Vegetable Gardens

• Weed Control Tips to Defeat Dandelions