Sneak preview to some great gardening links!

Word on the street is that there is an awesome gardening workshop this Saturday March 7th at the Grace Lutheran Church and Community Garden from 10am-Noon!
Free seeds and plant starts!

Check out a selection of great online resources about gardening below:

Cover Crops

• http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/factsheets/ecogardening/impsoilcov.html

Cut Flowers

•  Growing and Selection: 

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/Profile.aspx?pid=603

Harvesting Fruits and Vegetables

•  Chart for Mendocino County: 

http://mendocinolocalfood.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=40&Itemid=62

•How to Harvest Fruits and Vegetables:

http://www.theiowagardener.com/harvesting_fruits_and_veggies.html

Pest Control

•  Benificial Insects: 

http://www.greeneducationfoundation.org/greenthumbchallengesub/gardening-resources/garden-maintenance/567-bugs-we-love.html

•  Harmful Insects, Identification and Control: http://www.greeneducationfoundation.org/greenthumbchallengesub/gardening-resources/garden-maintenance/479-harmful-bugs.html

•  Natural Garden Pest Control: 

http://eartheasy.com/grow_nat_pest_cntrl.htm

Pollinators

•  About Pollinators: http://nas-sites.org/pollinators/about-pollinators/

•  Plants for Pollinators: http://nas-sites.org/pollinators/plants-for-pollinators/

Pruning Fruit Trees

•  How to prune an Apple Tree: http://www.weekendgardener.net/how-to/prune-apple-trees.htm

•  How to Prune Fruit Trees: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/ag29.html

Raised Beds

•  How to Make a Raised Bed From Pallets:

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-raised-bed-garden-box-from-wood-pall/

•  How to Build a Raised Bed (Plans):

http://www.sunset.com/garden/perfect-raised-bed-00400000039550/

Soil

  •Improvement and Care: 

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Modern-Homesteading/2007-06-01/How-To-Make-Garden-Soil.aspx?page=6#axzz2KWXRZvNB

Tool Care

•  Tool Care: http://www.theruststore.com/Garden-Tool-Maintenance-W37C2.aspx

Vegetable Spacing and planting Guides

•  Chart: http://home.howstuffworks.com/vegetable-spacing-guide.htm

•  Planting Chart for Mendocino County:

http://mendocinolocalfood.org/index.phpoption=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=40&Itemid=62

•  Square Foot Gardening tutorial: http://www.suwanee.com/pdfs/Square%20Foot%20Gardening%20PP%20031610.pdfSquareFoot 

•  Spacing Chart: http://www.mysquarefootgarden.net/plant-spacing/

Weeds

•  Common Weeds:http://www.greeneducationfoundation.org/greenthumbchallengesub/gardening-resources/garden-maintenance/601-common-weeds.html