Here are a few websites that we thought might be helpful to you with planning, planting and harvesting your garden.
Home Garden Seed Association The Home Gardening Seed Association (HGSA) is an industry-wide seed association formed and committed to promote home-gardening from seeds. The HGSA is a member-driven organization that addresses the needs of garden seed businesses — from growers, to wholesalers and distributors, to materials' vendors of the garden seed industry.
National Gardening Association NGA offers one of the Web's largest and most respected array of gardening content for consumers and educators, ranging from general information and publications to lessons and grants. Explore their Web site and discover a world of gardening possibilities.
USDA Plant Database The Plants Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
You Grow Girl Was launched by Gayla Trail in February 2000 and has grown into a thriving online community that speaks to a new kind of gardener, seeking to redefine the modern world relationship to plants. This contemporary, laid-back approach to gardening places equal importance on environmentalism, style, affordability, art, and humour.
Read these great books by a self proclaimed 'plant freak'. Chris is a garden writher, blogger, author and writes for our blog "The Dirt". She has great knowledge about all things gardening especially some good insight into heirloom vegetables and the unique qualities that they offer.