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ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service Colorado
State University Cooperative Extension Planttalk
Colorado® Plant
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Composting
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The Compost Resource Guide
"This site is intended to serve as a hub of information for anyone interested in the various aspects of composting."
Center for ReSource Conservation
"The Center for ReSource Conservation (CRC) is a community nonprofit organization that is leading Boulder County in the sustainable use of energy and natural resources. Our programs focus on Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Water Conservation, Green Building, and Waste Reduction. We offer seminars, workshops and brochures to help you incorporate your environmental beliefs into your everyday life."
Water Conservation in the Community Gardens
Adapted from Denver Urban Garden’s Drought Guide
This guide is in Microsoft Word. You can download it to your computer and print it.
E-Mail Lists for Colorado Gardeners |
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Boulder
Garden Listserv
Subscribe to gardening@bouldergarden.net using this web page. When you
subscribe you will receive a message asking you to confirm that you
are the one who intended to subscribe and to reply quoting this message.
Once the listowners have validated everything, they'll send a message
that you are subscribed.
Pestserv
Send e-mail to listproc@colostate.edu.
with message "subscribe PESTSERV-L". This list is run by CSU
and has postings from many Cooperative Extension people all over the
West as well as some home gardeners.
Rocky Mountain Gardening
Register/subscribe at onelist.com. Choose web or e-mail access to messages.
Gardening Links |
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Abbondanza Organic Seeds and Produce
Seed source. All seeds are grown in Boulder County using organic and select biodynamic growing practices.
American Horticultural Society
links
Hundreds of links to associations, resource
centers, specific gardening subjects, international sites, contests,
society sites, specific plants, botanic gardens and arboreta, and horticulture
related sites.
Burpee
Seeds
The classic seed catalog company founded
in 1876.
Common
Garden Pests
Help identify, control, and eliminate the most common of the garden
pests. Don't let these uninvited garden pests harm your garden.
Community Gardens Around the Country
Links from the American Community Gardening
Association to community gardens around the country.
Container
Gardens
Container gardening resource site. Find out about container selection,
proper soil, and designing your container garden.
Cornell University's Vegetable MD Online
Disease facts and information bulletins by crop.
Denver
Botanic Gardens
"As one of the largest botanic gardens
in the U.S., Denver Botanic Gardens has earned a reputation as a leading
authority on Rocky Mountain horticulture."
Denver
Plants
Horticultural reference site dedicated to home gardeners in Zones 4
and 5. When completed in the summer of 2003, the site should have over
2000 pages of information and images on most of the plant material used
by local gardeners... both indoors and out.
flora.net.au.
Home and garden resources including 90,000+ plant database.
Fragrant
Gardens
In-depth information on plants with a nice fragrance. Fragrant Gardens
will help you, after all, fragrant gardens are more than just roses!
Garden
Equipment
Detailed information on common lawn and garden equipment. Make informed
decisions on which tools to use and when.
Garden
Ideas
Overview of eight common garden projects. Garden ideas helps you break
through the creative logjam and gives you some great garden design ideas.
Garden
Soil
The one thing all successful gardens have in common is good soil. Learn
about the components of garden soil and how you can improve yours. Covers
mulch as well.
GardenWeb
A commercial site with information exchange
forums, glossary, plant name dictionary and shopping opportunities.
House
Plants
Resource of information concerning common house plants. Includes information
on lighting, soil, and a list of the easiest house plants to grow.
Johnny's Selected Seeds
Seed source for vegetable, flower, cover crops and fruit seeds. Also sells tools and supplies.
National
Gardening Association
"When the nonprofit, National Gardening Association (originally
named Gardens for All), was established in 1972, its founders had two
goals: helping gardeners and helping people through gardening. Nearly
30 years later, we're still doing both, but in ways the founders could
have never imagined. .... Today NationalGardening.com is the largest
syndicator of online gardening content and maintains the most comprehensive
and user-friendly content and community Web site on the Internet."
Ohio
State University's PlantFacts
This site provides a very useful search
engine for all the Cooperative Extension fact sheets from all over the
country.
University of Illinois Extension's Hort Corner Page
Includes information on gardening, pests, annuals, trees, shrubs, turf and composting. The site is for gardeners in USDA Hardiness zones 4, 5 and 6. Boulder County is in zones 5 and 6.
Seed Savers Exchange
Seed source for heirloom seeds.
Tomato Bob
Seed source for heirloom tomatoes and vegetables.
Vegetable Gardening
Vegetable gardening from the About.com
gardening guide.
Weather Links |
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Today's
Weather in the Community Garden
This link shows current weather,
not forecasts.
Colorado
Climate Center
Much historical climate information
can be generated at this interactive site.
"The Colorado Climate Center was established by the state in 1974, through the Colorado State University Agricultural Experiment Station, to provide information and expertise on Colorado's complex climate. Through its threefold program of Climate Monitoring (data acquisition, analysis, and archiving), Climate Research and Climate Services, the Center is responding to many climate related questions and problems affecting the state today."
Youth Gardening Links |
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Children's Gardening
Gardening
With Kids
"Help children develop a lifetime passion for gardening by starting
them young. Children's gardening is a great way to help them learn life's
lessons."
National
Gardening Association's Kidsgardening Page
"Our commitment to support
educators and parents has inspired this new Web site. Our goal is to
be the best site for all of you who garden with kids, whether you engage
with plants and gardens as family projects or as educational tools.
We are committed to providing horticultural expertise, quality resources,
meaningful networking opportunities, and ideas for sparking inquisitiveness
and exploration."
Youth Garden Projects
The
Food Project
Based in Boston, The Food Project is dedicated
to developing youth leadership, empowering constituents to take ownership
for the revitalization of inner-city neighborhoods, feeding the hungry,
and serving as a sustainable steward of the land.
The Greenhorns
A grass-roots, non-profit organization made up of urban, suburban and rural young farmers.
Additional Gardening Links |
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Michael Pollan on Growing Food
Contains links for learning how to farm, composting, chicken coops, training opportunities, and community gardens.
Starting a Gardening Business
This UK site contains over 80 articles written by its experts who continually update and add new content.