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Whether this is your first garden or you have been
gardening many years there are many useful tips to help make your
adventure more productive.
The purpose of this site is to simplify gardening, to
offer helpful tips on planting, and to suggest some varieties that are my
favorites or ones that are well suited to central Virginia. You can
browse the web for more detailed information on vegetables or check out
the links listed below. If you have found some helpful sites to
add to my list, let me know. This is not intended to be a
comprehensive site but to help the beginner know where to begin!
There are also vegetables that I am not covering;
parsnips, artichokes, celery, Chinese cabbage, kohlrabi, rutabagas,
herbs, salsify, mushrooms, watercress, endive, fruits,
berries, nuts and edible wild plants such as dandelion. I may have
to write a page on dandelion (yes, that nasty weed in your yard!) some
time. Most people wrinkle their noses at the thought of eating
dandelion salad but it is absolutely one of the pure eating pleasures of
spring.
We sell Wetsels
garden seeds. They offer
quality seeds and a very nice
variety. Their web page lists varieties, seeding dates and descriptions
of each variety.
Every garden and yard has to have some flowers to make it
complete. I am not doing an information section on flowers but
wanted to share some pictures of some of my favorite flower beds.
Click here for a tour of Pat's flower
gardens...
 Quick, handy
reference vegetable planting chart.
2006 season - check
out our greenhouse!
Dealing with
Garden Pests
Some Other Helpful Links
- Welcome to
Gardening - this is a very cool gardening site. Contains
info on herbs, flowers, vegetables, lawn care, insects, diseases,
composting, etc. It has also has links to other gardening
sites, extension services, and really neat graphics. Enjoy!
- Cornell
University: Vegetable MD On-line-Guide to plant/vegetable
diseases.
- Dirty
Hands Gardening Center-Powhatan: Good info on composting.
- Flower Arrange:
web site specializing in how to keep the flowers alive, special
treatments and special tips.
- Growing
Guides ... a growing resource for gardeners.
- Weekend Gardener: Listing
of Vegetables and info about each
- Home Gardening Tips and
Information: Fine gardening may mean many things to many people.
- Home
Vegetable Gardening website of NC State. Contains good
basic information on planning, planting and caring for your garden,
plus a listing of vegetables, fertilizing and harvesting.
- North
Carolina Vegetable Links -site list links to everything you ever
wanted to know about vegetable gardening and more!
- North
Carolina State-Vegetable Insect Pest Management Website
- North
Carolina State- Non-Chemical Ways to Control Insects
- North
Carolina State-Vegetable and Herb Diseases
- North
Carolina State- Weed Control in Vegetable Gardens
- My House Plants:
This Web site is an easy
guide to give you information about
plants,
house plants, gardening, garden, compost pile, Azaleas, watering,
soil, sunlight ,azaleas, poinsettia, gardenia, Amaryhllis, Christmas
Cactus, Cyclamen, Begonia, Dielfenbacha, Dracaena, Tolmeia,
Chlorophytum Variegatum, pots, clay pots, plastic pots, fertilizer,
toxic sap, and seeds.
- P. Allen Smith
- Television host and
professional garden designer, P. Allen Smith provides
tips from his daily gardening reports that are practical and useful
guides to better gardening.
- Plant
Ideas.com: Resource for plants, greenhouses, trees, herbs,
raised beds, hardiness zones, fencing, etc.
- The Old
Farmer's Almanac ... a gardener's companion!
- The
Gardener's Workshop, LLC, Newport News, VA.by
Lisa Ziegler has everything you need to make your garden the
favorite place to be; gardening tools, accessories, seeds, plants,
bulbs, and much much more!
- University
of Kentucky: Vegetable Insects
- Vegetable
Information: Questions and answers about plants, diseases,
planting, etc.
- Weather.com - provides
up-to-date weather reports, storms, allergy information and many
other weather related reports.
- Yard Lighting: Outdoor
garden lighting.
Organic
Gardening includes
links, ideas and thoughts by Pat!
My Favorite Gardening Books
- Gardening: The Complete Guide to Growing America's
Favorite Fruits and Vegetables, from the National Gardening
Association.
I originally purchased this book in 1986 and have looked for it
in recent years for friends but have not been able to find it. It
has truly been my favorite gardening friend. The pages are
starting to look like the well-worn pages of a cook-book!
- The Vegetable Gardener's BIBLE by Edward C. Smith
This book is worth missing a meal to afford to buy! It not only
has colorful pages for each vegetable but easy to understand
instructions for sowing, soil preparation, harvesting, storing, and
varieties. The first half of the book deals with starting plants,
purchasing seeds, tools, fertilizing, irrigation, composting, pest,
diseases, and much, much more. If you have this book you
won't need my advice!
And a special thanks to my mother who taught me how to garden,
cook, can and freeze vegetables. I never dreamed as a child that I would
someday love to garden and actually get spring-fever!! |
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Hertzler
Farm
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