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GARDENING
The Cranberry Lady
This cheerful website has everything you might want to know about cranberries. Here you can read the story of The Cranberry Lady and her farm, and find out how to purchase her cranberries. The site tells about the process of cranberry faming and harvesting, with colorful photos of the harvest. A discussion on the health and nutritional benefits of cranberries is enhanced with tasty-sounding recipes. Visitors can send a virtual postcard picturing the fall cranberry harvest. http://www.thecranberrylady.com
National Gardening Association
This site has information and encouragement for gardeners of all types. The site features the National Gardening Magazine, which has gardening tips and articles. Gardeners can find online courses here to enhance their skills, plus a horticultural dictionary. The Buyer's Guide and seed swap program will help gardeners find where to get needed gardening items. Bring your gardening questions to the Let's Talk Gardening forum and get the benefit of others' experience. The Gardening Q&A section promises an answer by email within 48 hours; you can begin by searching the section to see if your question is already answered. There is a special emphasis on encouraging young gardeners, with school projects and a kids' gardening catalog. http://www.garden.org
Silas McDowell and Southern Apples
Silas McDowell (1795-1879) was a southern pomologist and a botanist of renown who discovered or introduced at least 15 new apple varieties during the 1850s. He was also a farmer, scientific observer, mountain guide, clerk of the Superior Court and a man of letters. He maintained a farm near Franklin, N.C. where he grew grapes and had a large apple orchard, and was called "the outstanding apple producer in the state". He also experimented with native American grape varieties. He was the originator of the "thermal belt" concept which is a zone on a mountainside where frost and freezes are less common than in the valleys and on the mountaintops. McDowell gained fame as a writer and storyteller. His friends compared him with Benjamin Franklin and his eulogist Thomas F. Glenn thought him greater than President Andrew Johnson. The site has photos of McDowell (from tintype), North Carolina scenery, and some of the plants, plus information on botany in the American Southeast.
Cambrian Carnivores Online Nursery
Some of the weirder lifeforms on Planet Earth are the carnivorous plants. This site is a great source of information on carnivorous plants, with descriptions, photographs, growing tips, seed catalogs, tissue culture kits, recommended books, WWW links, and even recipes. There is even a Javascript amusement arcade with a carnivorous plant theme. For user convenience there is a dictionary, a currency converter, and auto-translation of the whole site into 23 different languages.
Gardenforum.com
Visiting this website is like taking a walk through a lovely and quiet garden. But Gardenforum.com aims to transcend the average gardening page. The author has written many books on gardening subjects like vegetable gardens, low-cost gardening, and landscaping in flood plains and wildfire areas; here she touches on the aesthetic, mythology, and magic of plants as well. There is a section on how plants and people interact, including plants in medicine, culture, folklore, materials, and food. Get practical gardening tips, read profiles of various plants, and learn about gardens and their place in the environment. Visitors can tour a virtual gallery of exotic gardens and learn how to create beautiful gardens of their own. There are also resources and links including seed and garden catalogs.
http://www.gardenforum.com/index.html
Biodynamic and Organic Gardening Resource Site
This website has biodynamic and organic gardening links, for "the backyard gardener desiring a deeper insight into the history, mystery and science of agriculture." There are links to resources on the history of agriculture from ancient to modern times, pioneers of organic gardening, gardening alchemy, evolution theories, genetics, and more. Look here for suggested reading, sources of seeds and tools, workshops and seminars, and ideas on the new directions agriculture is taking as we approach the new millennium. Visitors can email Captain Dot for gardening advice.
http://www.biodynamic.net/
Suite 101 Gardening
Here 22 garden editors from the United States, England, Ireland, Australia, and Tasmania write regular columns, conduct ongoing discussions, and suggest links to the best gardening sites on the Web. Learn from the experts about growing flowers, the art of bonsai, desert gardening, identifying wildflowers, eco-gardens, edible gardens, herbs, and exotic gardens around the world. The Virtual Garden Tour has articles and photos of the gardens created by the site's editors and members. You don't need to be a member to read the articles and discussions, but members can ask questions, join the discussion, and post photos of their own gardens (membership is free). And if you know a lot about gardening, maybe you can win the gardening trivia contest.
Master Gardener
What do you do if your cherry trees have purple spots on the upper surfaces of the leaves? Or if your peachtree leaves curl? This Master Gardener page from Texas A&M;'s GN / gopher / WWW server has answers. You can search the database by single or multiple keywords or read general information on vegetables, fruits and nuts, flowering plants, ornamental trees and shrubs, and turf grasses. Get advice on purchasing plants, soil and site requirements, soil preparation and planting, irrigation, pruning and training, weed control, disease and insect control, fertilization, and thinning.
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