April is National Garden Month! Celebrate by checking out these resources to help your garden grow.
Gardening Tools
- Frost Date CalendarCold, frost, and freezing weather kills many vegetables. Use this frost dates calendar to figure out when it is safe to plant different types of vegetables.
- Vegetable, Fruit, and Herb Gardening GuideThe National Gardening Association has compiled three guides to help you grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs successfully. These guides are great for beginners.
- National Gardening Association Learning GardenThis online course is great for adults and children interested in learning how plants work.
- National Gardening Association Vegetable and Annual Flowers CourseThis online course helps new gardeners learn how to grow food.
- Gardening During a PandemicGardening during a pandemic is for everyone, regardless of whether you live in an apartment or on a 100 acre ranch. Gardening gets you out in the fresh air (while respecting social distancing), adds positive energy into your life, gives you something fun to do, and gives a new activity that the whole family can participate in.
- Audubon Native Plant DatabaseEnter your zip code to access Audubon’s native plants database and explore the best plants for birds in your area, as well as local resources and links to more information.
- Mulch CalculatorFigure out how much mulch you need for your garden using either square feet or width, length.
Gardening Websites
- Tending My GardenBlog about organic gardening with a common sense approach.
- Better Homes & Gardens: GardeningCreate the perfect front yard and backyard landscapes with these BHG gardening tips.
- Dave's Garden Plant FilesConsidered to be one of the most extensive plant databases online, Dave's Garden provides plant information for new and expert gardeners.
- Gardening ChannelAdvice and tips on how to garden.
- GardenersGardening how-to articles, advice, planning tools, and more.
Gardening Podcast
Gardening Books and eBooks
The Beginner's Guide to Starting a Garden by
"Learn how to spend fewer hours and less money on revamping the garden." --The English Garden The prospect of revamping your yard can be daunting. Where do you start? How do all the areas come together in a beautiful, cohesive way? In The Beginner's Guide to Starting a Garden, Sally Roth simplifies the process by showing you how to spend fewer hours (and a minimal amount of money) in the garden by tackling one small area at a time. You'll find garden plans for ten unique areas--the entryway, the shady areas under trees, and more--that can be linked together over time to create a unified yard, and plants that are dependable, easy to find, and look good year after year. You'll also learn the basics of good design, which plants offer the most bloom for your buck, and how to avoid the most common planting mistakes.
Call Number: SB473 .R647 2017 (Waycross)ISBN: 9781604696745Publication Date: 2017-02-08
Field Guide to Urban Gardening by
Field Guide to Urban Gardening helps you choose the best methods to match your unique small-space challenges and growing goals, and provides the nuts-and-bolts information you need to participate in any method you choose.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780760363966Publication Date: 2019-05-14
Beginners Guide to Succulent Gardening by
Adored for their charming shapes and colors, respected for their resilience and adaptability, and just plain fun to have around--succulents are the hottest home gardening trend today. A Beginner's Guide to Succulent Gardening is a friendly guide to popular succulents, walking novices through all the basics, like: Choosing your succulents--from Hens and Chicks (Echeveria) to bristly flowering cactus varieties Mixing the right soils for your succulents and preparing the growing environment Easy potting and transplanting techniques Succulent care--including watering, fertilizing and providing the right amount of sun for each variety Understanding peak periods as well as seasonal traits and needs, so you can have a beautiful succulent garden year-round This book contains all sorts of helpful tips on what to look for when buying a plant, how to troubleshoot when your succulent shows signs of distress, how to trim the leaves and stems, and how to start new plants from cuttings. Clear diagrams and at-a-glance fact sheets for each variety, as well as inspirational photos of attractively and happily-housed succulents, fill the pages of this book. Now is the time to give succulents a try! LetA Beginner's Guide to Succulent Gardening be your guide to get you started and grow your indoor garden one succulent at a time.
Call Number: SB438 .F8713 2019 (Waycross & Online)ISBN: 9780804851190Publication Date: 2019-03-05
