Gardening Resources

Find gardening and plant resources to help you with plant issues, pest control, gardening ideas, plant selection, yard and garden maintenance and more.

Native Planting and North American Plants

• Apply for Lawns to Legumes Program/Get Resources
• Links to Useful Pollinator Resources
• Learn more about North American plants from this huge database from the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service.
  The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

Helping the Environment and Wildlife

• Pollinator Guide

How-to and Maintenance

• Growing Stone Fruit Trees 
• How to Plant a Tree and Proper Care (PDF)
• How to Prune Peppers for Maximum Yield
• Prune “suckers” on Tomatoes for Higher Yield
• Pruning Principals Drummers handout – Trees, shrubs, and evergreens (PDF)
• Should you add soil microbes to your garden?
• Fertilizing plants during hot and dry weather

Perennial Care

• How to Clean-up Perennials in Spring
• Time to Divide Perennials
• Growing & Dividing Bearded Iris
• Pruning Clematis by Variety

Vegetables and Produce

• Vegetable planting guides
• Fruit trees and small fruits
• Guideline for growing carrots from seed to harvest

Gardening – Issues and Solutions

• Seed Growing Guides and Information- Crop by Crop Guides 
• Natural gardening solutions from Espoma
• Build Healthy Living Soil 
• Disease, insect & pest repellents and controls from Bonide. Plant tips, disease and insect controls, gardening tips
• Diagnose a problem with your plant with this handy tool from the University of Minnesota Extension Service. Covers disease, insects and weeds.
• Planting annuals and acclimating to the outdoors
• Pet Friendly and Toxic Plants
• Example of treating Blossom End Rot in tomatoes
• Home Gardening Ideas and Projects on a Budget