General Gardening
and Home Fruit Links
Garden Directories, Portals,
Search Engines:
(not necessarily dealing with pollination)
GardenSeek
Grow Search
A
list of Garden Links from Colorado State
Missouri Extension
Hort Publications List
Cindi's List of Garden Catalogs
Gardener's Guide to the Internet
Honest Dirt Gardening
Encyclopedia
Heirloom Garden
Varieties Database
Gardeners Net
Natural
Hub A lot of horticultural info on a wide variety of plants, including
tropical ones, from New Zealand
Mailing Lists:
1. Master Gardener Mailing List for info e-mail
2. GARDENS (a worldwide list where all kinds of gardening and chat
take place) To subscribe, send message to: LISTSERV@lsv.uky.edu
Body of message should say: SUBSCRIBE GARDENS (your name)
3. RES-GARD (residential gardening, many folks from Texas-like climates
are here) To subscribe, send message to: LISTSERV@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU
Body of message should say: SUBSCRIBE RES-GARD (your name)
4. MEDIT-PLANTS (discussion of plants which grow in Mediterranean-like
climates) To subscribe, send message to: listserv@ucdavis.edu
Body of message should say: SUBSCRIBE MEDIT-PLANTS (your name) If you have a
problems, contact Sean A. O'Hara
5. OGL (for organic gardening) To subscribe, send message to: LISTSERV@lsv.uky.edu Body of message should say:
SUBSCRIBE OGL (your name)
6. MGARDEN (for Master Gardening) To subscribe, send
message to: listproc@listproc.wsu.edu Body
of message should say: SUBSCRIBE MGARDEN (your name)
7. PEPPER-NUTS (for growing chile peppers) To subscribe, send message
to: listserv@muskrat.hi.ne Body of message
should say: SUBSCRIBE PEPPER-NUTS (your name)
8. CHILE-HEADS (for discussion of anything relating to
chile peppers, including recipes, growing, etc.) To subscribe, send message to: majordomo@globalgarden.com Body of message
should say: SUBSCRIBE CHILE-HEADS (your name) They also have a web site here that has a lot of information.
9. COMPOST (for the discussion of, what else? Compost!) To
subscribe, send a message to: listproc@listproc.wsu.edu
Body of message should say: SUBSCRIBE COMPOST (your name)
10. RAREFRUIT go to http://www.egroups.com/list/rarefruit
(a very active group)
11. TOMATO FANATICS go to http://www.egroups.com/group/TomatoFanatics
Fruit and Yard Tree Links:
Apples from seeds FAQ
Mark Reiger's Fruit Crop Page
Well organized...astounding amount of info
Georgia
California Rare Fruit Growers
Large Database
North American Fruit Explorers
Preserving old varieties, finding exceptional new ones
Midwest Fruit Explorers
Chicago area fruit association
Insecticide
Spraying During Fruit Bloom This is a NO-NO!
IA
Pollination is Essential in the
Home Orchard Good info on pollinizers, but assumes bees will be
present.
Texas Plant Disease Handbook
Photos too (Extension)
Biological Pest Control in the
Home Orchard WI
Disease
Resistant Apple Cultivars for the Home Orchard NY
Disease Management Guidelines for ORGANIC APPLE PRODUCTION
in Ohio
A new organic
pesticide, Surround WP, coats plants to make them inaccessible to insects
Tree fruit
pruning TX Peach Pruning SC
PA Backyard Fruit Growers (Fruit
culture, grafting, training, a large selection of fruit links)
Backyard Fruit Growing
Historic Apples For The
Home Orchard
Training
and Pruning Fruit Trees
Wrong variety of apple tree? Cut it back and top work it like the pros...here's how.
Growing Apple Trees in the
Home Orchard
Disease and
Insect Management in the Home Orchard
MidFEx: Midwestern Fruit
Explorers, a Garden Club for Backyard Fruit Growers
Natural
Pest Control In Home Fruit
Fruit and Nut culture in
the far north
http://www.garden.pl.net/tree/fruittree.htm
Gene Yale's Backyard Orchard.
"If you have enough room to grow a rose bush, you can grow a
dwarf apple tree"
Delightful site with scores of apple trees in a suburban backyard.
Prevent fruit set for
undesirable fruits
CRFG Fruit Facts on-line
California Rare Fruit Growers - tropical and lesser known fruits.
Grafting
from Missouri Extension
A Course in Grafting
Cornell University, NY
Budding from
Missouri Extension
Budding Slide Show: PA
The Ginkgo Pages: All about this
"fossil" tree
Kiwifruit
culture NC Oregon
Hardy
Kiwi Kiwi
culture AL
Paw paw culture and pollination
American Chestnut Foundation
Growing
Chestnut Trees CT cultural guide
Home Orchard Society
Oregon
Growing and Harvesting Black
Walnuts
Low-Chill Fruits and Nuts for Florida
Southeastern Palm and Exotic Plant Society
Tree Guide: The Natural History of Trees
Tree Disease Photographs
Espaliering Apple
Trees OH
Vegetables and Herb Links:
Tomato Blossom-End
Rot
Tomato disease photos
Florida Tomato Scouting Guide
Reinhards Tomaten Heirloom Vegetable
Photos A LOT of tomatoes German
Seed Savers Exchange: Preserving Heirloom
Varieties
Texas Cucurbit
Disease Index
Entomology 101 for
Gardeners Learn about the common spiders, bugs, and bees that
you
encounter when
gardening NM
The Rhubarb Compendium Growing
and using
Flowers and Ornamental Links:
Endicott's Lily page, lots of photos
Odds n' Ends:
Virtual Plant and Pest Diagnostic
Library Purdue
What Can I Plant near My
Black Walnut Trees?
Poison Ivy, Oak, and Sumac
Black Widow Spiders
Kill home pests without
pesticides
Noxious Weeds Info
Poisonous Plant Databases
SC Native Plant Society
Are You Growing
Wildflowers/Native Plants and Being Harassed by Local Authorities/Codes?
Famine Foods
Plant providing food you wouldn't normally consider
Getting Tree Seeds to Germinate
Angelgrove Tree Seed Company
Heirloom
Vegetable Gardening
Sustainable Agriculture,
Biological Diversity, Organic and Experimental Horticulture Links Colorado
IPM
strategies for control of Japanese beetles USDA
Carnivorous Plants FAQ
International Carnivorous Plant Society
Tom Clothier's Seed Germination
Database
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