General Gardening and Home Fruit Links

Garden Directories, Portals, Search Engines:
                 (not necessarily dealing with pollination)
GardenSeek
Grow Search
A list of Garden Links from Colorado State
Missouri Extension Hort Publications List
Cindi's List of Garden Catalogs
Gardener's Guide to the Internet
Honest Dirt  Gardening Encyclopedia
Heirloom Garden Varieties Database
Gardeners Net
Natural Hub 
A lot of horticultural info on a wide variety of plants, including tropical ones, from New Zealand


Mailing Lists:
1. Master Gardener Mailing List
for info e-mail
2. GARDENS (a worldwide list where all kinds of gardening and chat take place) To subscribe, send message to: LISTSERV@lsv.uky.edu Body of message should say: SUBSCRIBE GARDENS (your name)
3. RES-GARD (residential gardening, many folks from Texas-like climates are here) To subscribe, send message to: LISTSERV@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Body of message should say: SUBSCRIBE RES-GARD (your name)
4. MEDIT-PLANTS (discussion of plants which grow in Mediterranean-like climates) To subscribe, send message to: listserv@ucdavis.edu Body of message should say: SUBSCRIBE MEDIT-PLANTS (your name)  If you have a problems, contact Sean A. O'Hara
5. OGL (for organic gardening) To subscribe, send message to:  LISTSERV@lsv.uky.edu Body of message should say: SUBSCRIBE OGL (your name)
6. MGARDEN (for Master Gardening) To subscribe, send message to: listproc@listproc.wsu.edu Body of message should say: SUBSCRIBE MGARDEN (your name)
7.  PEPPER-NUTS (for growing chile peppers) To subscribe, send message to: listserv@muskrat.hi.ne Body of message should say: SUBSCRIBE PEPPER-NUTS (your name)
8. CHILE-HEADS (for discussion of anything relating to chile peppers, including recipes, growing, etc.) To subscribe, send message to: majordomo@globalgarden.com Body of message should say: SUBSCRIBE CHILE-HEADS (your name) They also have a web site here that has a lot of information.
9. COMPOST (for the discussion of, what else? Compost!) To subscribe, send a message to: listproc@listproc.wsu.edu Body of message should say: SUBSCRIBE COMPOST (your name)
10. RAREFRUIT  go to  http://www.egroups.com/list/rarefruit     (a very active group)
11. TOMATO FANATICS   go to  http://www.egroups.com/group/TomatoFanatics

Fruit and Yard Tree Links:
Apples from seeds FAQ
Mark Reiger's Fruit Crop Page        Well organized...astounding amount of info      Georgia
California Rare Fruit Growers     Large Database
North American Fruit Explorers     Preserving old varieties, finding exceptional new ones
Midwest Fruit Explorers      Chicago area fruit association
Insecticide Spraying During Fruit Bloom      This is a NO-NO!         IA
Pollination is Essential in the Home Orchard    Good info on pollinizers, but assumes bees will be       present.
Texas Plant Disease Handbook      Photos too  (Extension)
Biological Pest Control in the Home Orchard     WI
Disease Resistant Apple Cultivars for the Home Orchard       NY
Disease Management Guidelines for ORGANIC APPLE PRODUCTION in Ohio
A new organic pesticide, Surround WP,  coats plants to make them inaccessible to insects
Tree fruit pruning    TX          Peach Pruning   SC
PA Backyard Fruit Growers (Fruit culture, grafting, training, a large selection of fruit links)
Backyard Fruit Growing
Historic Apples For The Home Orchard
Training and Pruning Fruit Trees
Wrong variety of apple tree? Cut it back and top work it like the pros...here's how.
Growing Apple Trees in the Home Orchard
Disease and Insect Management in the Home Orchard

MidFEx:  Midwestern Fruit Explorers, a Garden Club for Backyard Fruit Growers
Natural Pest Control In Home Fruit
Fruit and Nut culture in the far north
http://www.garden.pl.net/tree/fruittree.htm

Gene Yale's Backyard Orchard.   "If you have enough room to grow a rose bush, you can grow a          dwarf apple tree"    Delightful site with scores of apple trees in a suburban backyard.
Prevent fruit set for undesirable fruits
CRFG Fruit Facts on-line      California Rare Fruit Growers - tropical and lesser known fruits.
Grafting from Missouri Extension
A Course in Grafting     Cornell University, NY
Budding from Missouri Extension

Budding Slide Show: PA
The Ginkgo Pages: All about this "fossil" tree
Kiwifruit culture NC    Oregon     Hardy Kiwi       Kiwi culture AL
Paw paw culture and pollination
American Chestnut Foundation
Growing Chestnut Trees
  CT  cultural guide
Home Orchard Society         Oregon
Growing and Harvesting Black Walnuts
Low-Chill Fruits and Nuts for Florida
Southeastern Palm and Exotic Plant Society
Tree Guide: The Natural History of Trees
Tree Disease Photographs
Espaliering Apple Trees   OH


Vegetables and Herb Links:
Tomato  Blossom-End Rot
Tomato disease photos
Florida Tomato Scouting Guide
Reinhards Tomaten  Heirloom Vegetable Photos   A LOT of tomatoes   German
Seed Savers Exchange:  Preserving Heirloom Varieties
Texas Cucurbit Disease Index
Entomology 101 for Gardeners     Learn about the common spiders, bugs, and bees that         you              encounter when gardening   NM
The Rhubarb Compendium  Growing and using

Flowers and Ornamental Links:

Endicott's Lily page, lots of photos

Odds n' Ends:
Virtual Plant and Pest Diagnostic Library  Purdue
What Can I Plant near My Black Walnut Trees?
Poison Ivy, Oak, and Sumac
Black Widow Spiders
Kill home pests without pesticides
Noxious Weeds Info
Poisonous Plant Databases
SC Native Plant Society
Are You Growing Wildflowers/Native Plants and Being Harassed by Local Authorities/Codes?
Famine Foods      Plant providing food you wouldn't normally consider
Getting Tree Seeds to Germinate    Angelgrove Tree Seed Company
Heirloom Vegetable Gardening
Sustainable Agriculture, Biological Diversity, Organic and Experimental Horticulture Links   Colorado
IPM strategies for control of Japanese beetles    USDA
Carnivorous Plants FAQ      International Carnivorous Plant Society
Tom Clothier's Seed Germination Database

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