General Gardening

Resources in this category:

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://garden-gate.prairienet.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.

Garden Web
http://www.gardenweb.com/

This comprehensive site contains links to gardening tips, a glossary of plant terms, special section on roses, and discussion forums in six languages about a large variety of gardening topics. Also includes links to gardening association and vendors of equipment and supplies.

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.

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://www.urbanext.uiuc.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.