Get Gardening Help on the Internet
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By
Robin Nobles
At the first
sign of the ground thawing in the spring, gardeners rush outside to
work in their flowerbeds or vegetable gardens. Though considered "work"
by many, to a gardener, there's nothing more relaxing than piddling
around in the dirt and working with tender new plants.
At the National Gardening Association's Easy Seed-Starting Guide,
you can "get your garden off to a good start" with their step-by-step
instructions and tips from the pros. Learn the germination temperature,
the number of days to germinate, plant spacing, and the amount of
sunlight required. Access the National Gardening Magazine to learn
about new vegetables, fruit, or roses for 1998.
http://www.wowpages.com/nga/
By far, one of the best gardening sites on the Web is GardenGuides,
where you'll discover anything and everything "green." Learn how
to prepare herbs, how to force bulbs, and how to grow gardens in
a container.
http://www.gardenguides.com/
At Pathfinder's Virtual Garden, you can click on Armchair Gardener
for the best gardening articles from publications such as SOUTHERN
LIVING or SUNSET magazines. If you don't have a lot of time for
gardening, maybe the Weekend Projects section would be perfect for
you, where you can access categories such as Instant Gardening,
Gardening Basics, or Backyard Builder.
http://www.southern-living.com/garden/
Fine Gardening Online Magazine offers a guided web tour of their
favorite seed starting resources. Or, learn that every year, the
Heirloom Daffodils signal the return of spring. Under Design, you
can learn how to have a great garden in just one year, or learn
how to have spring-to-fall color in a shady spot. Access a flower
bloom chart, or learn how to design a water garden.
http://www.taunton.com/fg/
Typical of their outstanding magazine, Better Homes & Gardens
offers a Gardening Home Page full of helpful features such as Gardening
Maps, where you can check out the most detailed plant hardiness
maps on the Internet.
http://www.bhglive.com/gardening/index.html
Are you having problems with your garden? Visit the no-nonsense
Problem Identification Aids and see if you can find a solution.
Categories are flowers, ground covers, shrubs, and trees.
If you're interested in flowers, Flowerbase is the place for you.
The database offers over 7,000 pictures of flowers, plants, and
garden plants.
http://www.garden.org/
Rose gardeners need to stop by the Rose Resource page. Find the
perfect award-winning rose for your garden, or learn rose gardening
tips.
http://www.rose.org/
We'll close with a comprehensive listing of gardening sites, Internet
Gardening, where you'll find links to publications, other gardeners,
reference sites, gardening discussion groups, and a listing of impressive
gardens to visit. If you travel, be sure to click on the Calendar
of Garden Events to learn of gardening happenings in areas where
you might visit.
http://learning.lib.vt.edu/garden.html
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Robin Nobles is a freelance writer whose articles on surfing the
Web are published in six newspapers regularly. She also writes articles
about the Web and Internet in publications such as Internet Newsroom,
InfoAlert, WebVantage, CompuNotes, ChipNET, The Sunshine Post, Bridges
Initiatives, and more. She can be reached at robin@robinsnest.com
or through her website: Robin's Nest for Writers and Web Surfers
- http://www.robinsnest.com/
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