Surf these sites: A basic guide to vegetable gardening -- Basic fact sheets for 14 common home garden vegetables, aimed mainly for Southern USA conditions. ACI Hydroponics -- Complete line of grow lights (HID) light movers and hydroponic gardens and equipment. 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. Asian vegetable seeds -- Oriental vegetable seed specialists - offers more than 200 varieties of Asian vegetable seeds, serving home gardeners and vegetable growers since 1978. Blue Willow Farm -- Garlic naturally grown without chemicals, pesticides, herbicides. Garlic to eat, braid and plant. Bowldown Produce Ltd -- Notes on growing strawberries and raspberries under UK home garden conditions. Some brief varietal notes as well. Chef''s Garden -- A small family owned nursery, located in Southern California, specializing in culinary herb plants and vegetable starts for growing your own kitchen gardens. Chuck Wyatt''s Heirloom Tomatoes -- Chuck Wyatt''s Heirloom Tomatoes - A good selected list of heirloom and gourmet tomatoes for sale from this tomato specialist. Brief and down-to-earth notes as well. Mail order Culinary Herb FAQ -- All you ever wanted to know - and ask on a newsgroup - more often than once a month - about culinary herbs. A FAQ for rec.gardens, alt.folklore.herbs, and the culinary herblist. 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. Extensive notes on many cultivars and forms. Fungi Perfecti -- Fungi Perfecti is a cutting-edge, environmentally friendly company specializing in the distribution of cultures, tools and technologies for the cultivation of gourmet and medicinal mushrooms. GARDEN of the GIANTS -- Visit the garden of John and Mary Evans.Experience the BIGGEST vegetables you have ever seen.They hold 7 World and 18 Alaska State records.The 19lb Carrot is one of many spectacular photographs! 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. Gourmet Garlic Gardens -- An excellent garlic site with notes on around 21 varieties of garlic, very good cultural information, balanced information on health benefits, and solid information on the relative strengths of the various garlic varieties. Some good photos of varieties. Also sells seed garlic. USA centric (hot states), but very good nevertheless. Growing Peppers From Seed -- A useful one page sheet covering all elements from pepperjoes seed selling site. 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. Growing Vegetables, and Vegetable Information -- Vegetables, Growing Vegetables, Vegetable Information. Growing Your Own Vegetables at Home to Save Money -- A genuinely practical advisory of what is and isn''t worth growing, and how to grow it. Don''t waste time and money, check it here before you grow it. Guide to Growing Vegetables -- We have individual vegetable guide sheets, Tips and Techniques, and articles by top garden writers to help you get the most from your vegetable garden. Heirloom Vegetable Gardener''s Assistant -- A detailed guide to the old, open-pollinated vegetables called heirlooms, featuring selected histories, woodcuts, bibliography, and links to seed sources and display gardens. Hot Chile Peppers -- Hot chile peppers growing information and the latest break-throughs in the greenhouse industry. 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. 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. Seed Savers Exchange -- An anmateur organisation devoted to saving heirloom seeds, by home gardeners, for home gardeners. Swap seeds, get updates. Taste of Gardening -- A Taste of Gardening is a gardening basics series discussing composting, disease control, growing transplants, harvesting vegetables, herbs, insect control, planning a garden, planting and storing vegetables. 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. The Vegetable Patch -- Your online resource for organic vegetable gardening and growing fruit in your backyard. The Vegetable Patch -- All about growing organic vegetables, herbs, and fruit in suburban Brisbane, Australia. Offering useful fact sheets about how to grow various vegetables, companion planting advice and articles on other topics of interest to the organic gardener. 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. Varieties of Potatoes -- Prince Edward Island seed company''s list of cool climate varieties of potato. Vegetable Gardening -- Finally a single source for the Vegetable Gardener. Vegetable Gardening Handbook -- A very comprensive -even encyclopaedic-coverage of vegetables. The information is good, especially the basics of soils and pest. Rather a lot of clicking to do, but it''s all there. Written for Florida, widely applicable. Vegetable crops in Australia -- Intended for commercial growers, this site nevertheless has very good fact sheets on a small range of common vegetables and very grief descriptions with pictures of unusual Asian vegetables. 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. growing garlic -- 4 printer page ''factsheet'' on growing garlic at home - varieties, soil needs, when to sow, dealing to problems, storage.Fairly concise, but practical.
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