General Gardening

Resources in this category:

iVillage Garden Web: The Internets Garden Community
http://www.gardenweb.com/

This comprehensive site contains links to gardening tips, a glossary of plant terms, special section on roses, and includes a garden, nature, and antique and collectible discussion forum. Also includes links to gardening associations and vendors of equipment and supplies.

Eight Rules for Creative Container Gardens
http://www.gardenguides.com/how-to/tipstechniques/containeri...

This helpful page provides practical suggestions from an expert gardener for creating container gardens.

The Garden Gate
http://the-garden-gate.org/

"The Garden Gate offers gardeners and nature lovers a carefully-selected and well-organized collection of links to informative and interesting horticulture sites around the world." Includes links to resources for gardening advice, databases, newsgroups, listservs, and magazines.

Garden Guides
http://www.gardenguides.com/

"A growing resource for gardeners." Topics covered include herb gardens, vegetable gardens, flower gardens, rock gardens, compost, succession planting, and container gardening. Searchable. Each section includes tips & techniques, links to related Internet resources, and recommended books.

The Garden Helper
http://www.thegardenhelper.com/

This site provides comprehensive gardening guides to creating and maintaining a beautiful landscape including glossary of gardening terms, gardening calendar, garden themes/styles and problems and solutions.

Horticulture Solutions
http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/state/

Directory of pages providing information for a variety of gardening and horticultural topics. Based on a series of pamphlets from the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Office, but most information is general.

KidsGardening.com
http://www.kidsgardening.com/teachers.asp

This site supplies many creative ideas for teachers and parents to use while gardening with children. Ideas are provided for theme gardens and users can participate in activities or connect with other teachers.

Ohio State University WebGarden
http://webgarden.osu.edu/

This website hosted by OSU's Department of Horticulture and Crop Science provides several very informative features useful to all gardeners, including PlantFacts, a database of FAQs and over 60,000 extension fact sheets from universities across the U.S., and the Plant Dictionary, a database of images.

University of Illinois Extension Hort Corner
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/hort/index.html

This website provides comprehensive and helpful information for all gardeners. It includes articles providing gardening advice, links to other web resources, columns and tips from experts--all on a variety of topics, from lawns to vegetable growing to pest management.

USDA's Home Gardening Page
http://www.usda.gov/news/garden.htm

This page from the USDA provides a directory of gardening related resources on the web, especially general information produced by state cooperative extension offices. Items include a link to plant hardiness zone and eco-region maps.