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Get Gardening Help on the Internet
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.
Using the Texas A&M University's Timely Tips on Starting Seedlings at Home,
you can "get your garden off to a good start" with their
step-by-step instructions and tips. Learn the
germination temperature, the number of days to germinate, plant
spacing, and the amount of sunlight required.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rose gardeners need to stop by the Rose Resource page. Find the
perfect award-winning rose for your garden, or learn rose
gardening tips.
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.
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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 -
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