- Vegetable
Gardening Handbook Written for Florida, widely
applicable.
- Vegetable
gardening in spring -Recommended as a complete
overview of practical vegetable growing at home.
- Allexperts
Vegetable Growing Q&A - Veteran gardeners answer your
questions one-on-one about growing vegetables.
- Animal
Repellers - Pet Care Automation - Pet Care Products -
Very useful devices to scare away cats, squirrels, birds,
dogs-using motion detectors, radio frequency, water jets,
and the like. Very clever. A high tech, but always working,
solution to keeping animals out of the veggie patch. Interesting.
- A
basic guide to vegetable gardening - Basic fact sheets
for 14 common home garden vegetables, aimed mainly for Southern
USA conditions.
- Chef's
Garden - A few useful notes on growing herbs. Has an email
newsletter. Primarily a vegetable and herb plant selling site.
- Chuck
Wyatt's Heirloom Tomatoes - A good selected list of heirloom
and gourmet tomatoes (seed for sale) from this tomato specialist.
Brief but useful down-to-earth notes.
- E-commerce
selling garlic, gourmet vinegars, and mustard! - Purchase
Dakota Gardens and Herbs Gourmet Vinegars, Pickled Garlic,
and Sweet and Sour Mustard online through E-commerce capability.Dakota
Gardens and Herbs is a Pride of Dakota product (POD/www.shopnd.com).
- Filaree
Farm Organic Seed Garlic - Filaree sell over 100 unique
strains of garlic for backyard gardeners, commercial farmers
and seed nurseries. Their notes on some of the varieties are
very good. Recommended for extensive notes on many cultivars
and forms.
- Fungi
Perfecti Online - The ultimate home mushroom growing site.
Grow mushrooms on logs in small spaces and apartments. This
may be the model for urban gardening in the future! Extensive,
graphics heavy, content heavy.
- Garlic
in the Garden - this page has excellent links to on-line
suppliers of garlic, books on garlic cultivation, and even
a chat area on garlic!Home page fairly graphics intensive.
Recommended as a superb jump off point.
- Growing
Vegetables In The Home Garden - USDA Bulletin 202, this
is, of course, 'US centric', but it is particularly valuable
for it's broad advisory on planning and siting a home vegetable
garden, pros and cons. The advise on specific vegetables covers
a wide range, but in brief note form. For USA residents, there
is a list of county extension offices where advice on local
conditions can be obtained.
- Hungry
Gardener-Oregon Live - News and tips on vegetable growing,
including wild and unusual vegetables, written by and for
home gardeners.Check the archives.
- Jersey
Asparagus Farms - A leading asparagus grower selling plants
has very good cultural information for home gardeners.
- Kitchen
Gardener - Forums, catalogs, events and organizations
on fruits, vegetables and herbs.
- Master
Gardener -Vegetable Variety Recommendations - Useful,
down to earth information on vegetable growing written by
and for home gardeners in Sanata Clara valley, California.
But still widely applicable.
- Oregon
State University Vegetable Index - Information on tomato,
eggplant, lettuce, and all manner of other vegetable crops
-including specialist crops such as argula, cardoon and chillies-aimed
at the commercial grower, and for cooler Oregon USA conditions.
Lots of information on pests, diseases, storage of the crop.
Extensive lists of suitable varieties, sometimes with very
brief notes. Useful for home gardeners if it is mentally scaled
down.
- Potato
Varieties - Farm Gate Seed Potatoes - A commercial site
describing fifteen or so varieties available by mail order
(USA only)with good descriptions, and many with very good
photographs of the tubers
- Pumpkins
and More - A site by the University of Illinois, USA about
pumpkins. Pumpkins are the non-sweet version of Cucurbita
maxima, usually used for decoration or sugar laden pies. If
you are interested in this poorer, mainly decorative form
of winter squash, this is the site.
- The
Rhubarb Compendium - Everything you ever wanted to know
about rhubarb.It's botany, history, cultivation, recipes and
more. Well illustrated, this is an outstanding resource.
- Seed
Savers Exchange - An anmateur organisation devoted to
saving heirloom seeds, by home gardeners, for home gardeners.
Swap seeds, get updates.
- Stefani
Family Farm - Located in Auburn, CA. We have all sorts
of vegetables, herbs, and animals for sale.
- The
Vegetable Patch - Organic vegetable gardening in Queensland
at Gavin and Paula's vegetable patch. Every thought about
growing vegetables? Maybe we can help.
- Veggie
Seeds and Herbs - Sales and advertisement of high quality
vegetable seeds.
- Watch
Your Garden Grow - A comprehensive and helpful guide to
growing, storing, and preparing 21 different vegetables. Includes
recommended varieties, recipes and nutritional value. University
of Illinois Extension.
- The
World Geography of the Potato - The mainly commercial
production information about potatoes for each country is
organised by the commercial history and trends in the market,
consumption, main commercial varieties, commercial cultural
methods, pests and diseases, preparation and consumption.
Some useful information for the home grower, but not a lot.
Quite interesting otherwise.
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