Epicurious.com

KARE11.com

Food & Wine

Wine links

Nurserys:

Tangletown Gardens

Rice Creek Gardens

Linders

Swan Island Dahlias

Other Resources:

Dave's Garden

Plants Database

Garden.com
A one-stop shop for gardeners in search of products and information, Garden.com covers everything from shade gardens to aphid control to growing salad greens. Free membership includes regional information, custom garden layouts from the Garden Planner, a monthly newsletter, discussion boards and the Garden Doctor. If you're in the mood to shop, Garden.com can help you there, too; the site's store offers seeds, plants, tools, furniture, books and organic solutions.

GardenWeb
Gardeners will never be lonely at GardenWeb. Users get an abundance of gardening forums, which are organized by geographical area as well as by categories such as bulbs, gourds, daylilies and carnivorous plants. If you want to brush up on the basics before you post messages, the site includes a comprehensive database of plant names, an advice column and a calendar of gardening events around the world.

Minnesota Horticultural Society

Rebecca's Garden

Farmer's Almanac
Old wisdom meets new media on this site. "The Old Farmer's Almanac" is one of America's most trusted sources for garden guidance and weather forecasts. The Web site offers tips for beginners, a vegetable watering guide, a 1999 outdoor planting table and frost charts for the United States and Canada. Disagree with the experts? Click on the Gardener's Forum and add your 2 cents to one of the many discussions.

Better Homes and Gardens
This online version of the popular magazine includes a comprehensive gardening guide. The Test Garden, a regularly updated photo essay that follows the growth of a garden located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, is one interesting highlight. The site also features editor's choice garden plans, a thoughtful Q&A column and detailed frost and hardiness maps.

Sierra Home

- Plant Encylopedia

The Gardening Launching Pad
Jim Parra, a garden center coordinator from Austin, Texas, brings a lot of charm to this blossoming directory that provides links to more than 2,500 gardening sites. Categories range from African violets to Xeriscape. A few times a month Parra picks out a featured site and article that he considers especially helpful.

Organic Gardening
Though not as comprehensive as its print parent, the online version of the popular Rodale Press publication still has a load of information about how to grow impressive veggies without cheating. The Steps to Organic Gardening section tells you how to control insects and weeds without pesticides or herbicides. Solutions Online answers readers' questions, such as "How do I get rid of a yellow jacket nest?" and "Are black walnuts edible?"

Species 2000
What is that weird thing in my garden? The folks at Species 2000 will probably know. The organization, based in England, has the stated objective of "enumerating all known species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes on Earth as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity." In other words, it's got the answers. The site's Species Locator is a handy and quick search engine.

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