Home Gardening (01)

Gardening Advice and Tips
Rod Smith has a garden and is a certified nursery professional and he wants to share some information and advice with you. Rod has written an article titled The Art of Home Gardening and it is featured on his site. His gardening advice includes, landscape design, improving soil, plant nutrients, planting in clay soil and edible landscaping. He produces a list of Monthly Gardening Tips and a Calendar of Color. His site also features an impressive list of useful links.

Classroom Hydroponics
More and more people are using hydroponic lessons in the classroom to teach students about the basic principles of science. This is a useful lesson from the National Gardening Association that includes a break-down of lessons and photographs. From an introduction, to a chapter about meeting plant needs through factors such as nutrients and pH, to planting advice, the course also has a chapter about hydroponic systems. It includes a number of school setups for children to grow hydroponic plants, including Styrofoam, milk cartons and soda bottles. There are classroom stories and more to illustrate using hydroponic gardening to teach science in the classroom.

Gardening Tasks of the Month
The nursery manager at Cole Hardware offers suggested gardening tasks for each month on this site. Camille Hendry offers monthly tips to browsers such as, clearing brush and weeds away from home to avoid fire hazards and when cutting roses, cut back to a branch with five leaves. These and many other tips are feature this summer, but keep checking back for tips for the fall. You can also check out archives of her other features.

Growing a Floating Hydroponic Garden
This informational brochure includes information about how to build a flating hydroponic garden. Construction tips are included, as in building a rectangular frame, lining a frame, securing the liner and more. The pictures included illustrate the many steps needed to create a floating hydroponic garden. Container choices, crops and new research is also included in this guide.

Kid's Gardening Tips
On this site titled "Kids' Turn Central" (KTC), gardening tips are posted ever week, along with advice and questions and answers from KTC gardeners. Also, watch plants such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, sunflowers, carrots, pepper, potatoes, turnips, squash, strawberries, zucchini, green onions, yellow onions, lettuce, pumpkin, beans, cabbage, kohl rabi, radishes, chives and parsley grow. A list of gardening links called "gardening fun sites" also appears on the site. The site even features garden poetry.