When to Plant Vegetables
If spring fever gets you while the soil is still cold, choose the kinds of vegetable seeds that can live with cool soil. Do not rush Mother Nature, since seeds that love warm soil may rot in cold, wet soil. Avoid working the soil too early. Heavy ... [... more]
North Dakota State University |
How to Know When to Plant Peanuts
A little-known fact about peanuts is that they are actually a legume, like beans and peas, not a nut. Growing peanuts in your garden is a fun and easy way to teach children about gardening--and they make a great snack, too. Knowing when to plant ... [... more]
eHow |
When To Plant
The old saying that "patience is a virtue" applies to gardeners who get the itch to garden when temperatures warm up in the spring. One of the ways to determine when to plant veggies is based on their hardiness or their ability to withstand [... more]
University of Illinois Extension |
How to Know When to Plant Cotton
There's more to growing cotton than soil conditions, fertilizer and irrigation schedules. While minding these growing basics is essential, cotton is more complicated in that it is very sensitive to temperature. Even if the soil, nutrients and ... [... more]
eHow |
How to Know When to Plant Sunflowers
Sunflowers are hearty plants that grow in direct sunshine through the summer months. They come in many varieties and can grow between 10 inches and 20 feet high. If planted at the right times, sunflowers can bring vitality to a garden and seeds ... [... more]
eHow |
100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden
 This thorough how-to and stunningly photographed field guide covers every facet of growing heirlooms, from selecting the right varieties for a particular zone and type of garden to timing and planting seeds. Full-color photos.Drippy, delicious, [... more]
$9.47
A1 Books |
When to plant grass seeds
If you are planting a cool-season grass such as fescue, bluegrass, or rye, you can plant it now in much of New Mexico. Higher elevation locations may have to wait until April. Warm-season grasses, such as buffalograss, blue grama, or bermuda ... [... more]
New Mexico State University |
When to Plant Vegetables
By keeping one eye on the signals nature is sending, you can plant your vegetable garden according to nature's calendar. If you live in the North were crocus are common, you can time your seed sowing to their their bloom: When you see the ... [... more]
National Gardening Association |
Alex Best Friends
Features: Create a fun scrapbook to share with your best friend. Spiral bound scrapbook is stylish and will last a lifetime. Scrap booking is a fun, quiet activity for kids. This kit includes a 20-page scrapbook, 32 stickers, borders and frames, alphabet [... more]
$9.99
Amazon.com |
The Garden Book for Wisconsin: Revised Edition
Good resource: This is one of the books that I refer to often when deciding what to plant in our yard. Descriptions of the plant, whether it's a native species, and recommendations for certain varieties to look for, are very useful. Is it a single [... more]
$24.99
Amazon.com |
Pat Welsh's Southern California Gardening: A ...
Hardly a must.: After reading these glowing reviews, I couldn't wait to get my hands on this book. However, I found a lot of information sorely lacking or incomplete. The month-by-month planting guide format is nice, but, in the attempt to guide us [... more]
$22.95
Amazon.com |
Dr. Chase's Recipes Or Information For Everybody: An ...
amazing historic book- a fascinating portrait of early America: Dr. Chase was a traveling physician who compiled this book of "recipes and information for everybody" including a wide array of information and home remedies for families. At the [... more]
$48.95
Amazon.com |
