Happy New Year to all, hope you received a lot of gardening gifts.
Most of us have already started receiving garden catalogs and the struggle begins to pare our ordering lists down to something manageable. Like a computer, there is always something our garden needs or wants. Intense planning is the key if, like me, you have a rather small space in which to put all that stuff you want.
In case you haven't already received more garden catalogs than you can possible order from, the following are internet sites where you can order catalogs and gardening supplies, and most of them have very good gardening info:
Bluestone Perennials: Perennials, herbs, shrubs and bulbs http://www.bluestoneperennials.com
Butchart Gardens http://butchartgardens.ca/butchart
Cacti and succulents http://vvv.com/~amdigest/homepage.htm
Carol Wallace's list of catalogs: http://www.suite101.com/userfiles/79/see...
DT Brown & Co http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dtbrow...
Dutch Gardens http://www.dutchgardens.nl/
Ferry-Morse Seeds http://trine.com/GardenNet/FerryMorse
Flowery Branch http://www.flowerybranch.com
Garden Import (for Suttons Seeds from England) http://www.gardenimport.com
Garlic Encyclopedia http://www.thegarlicstore.com/index.cgi/...
Hibiscus http://www.trop-hibiscus.com/
Johnny's Selected Seeds http://www.johnnyseeds.com/
Papa Genos herbs and scented geraniums http://www.papagenos.com/
Park Seed http://parkseed.com/main.htm
Plant Delights in North Carolina http://www.plantdel.com/
Plants of the Southwest http://www.plantsofthesouthwest.com/vegg...
Pond info and related sites http://members.tripod.com/~TROPICMAN/ind...
Richters Herbs http://WWW.RICHTERS.COM/
Seed and Plant Catalogs http://home.ptd.net/~organic1/SeedPlants...
Seeds of Change http://www.seedsofchange.com/
Seeds of Distinction http://www.interlog.com/~sod/
Seeds-by-Size http://www.seeds-by-size.co.uk/
Seeds Unique http://www.seedsonline.com/
Shepherd's Seeds http://www.shepherdseeds.com/
Silverhill Seeds in South Africa http://www.silverhillseeds.co.za/
Southern Perennials http://www.s-p-h.com/home.html
Spring Hill Nursery http://springhillnursery.com/springhill....
Stokes Seeds http://www.stokeseeds.com
Territorial Seed Company http://www.territorial-seed.com/
The Bethlehem Seed Company's Catalog - Front Page http://bethlehemseed.com/catalogfront.htm
The Great Petaluma Desert Cacti & Succulents http://gpdesert.com/
Thompson & Morgan Seeds http://www.thompson-morgan.com/
W. Atlee Burpee & Co http://burpee.garden.com
Verna Lynn's excellent source of gardening info http://members.iquest.net/~jmk/Vseed.html
World Seed (for Unwins Seeds from England) http://worldseed.com/p37.htm
1998 Exotic Plant and Garden Seed Catalog http://www.datasync.com/sbe/
Search or browse for your interest http://www.gardenbazaar.com/directory/
Many, many links for everything gardening http://www.tpoint.net/neighbor/
In the UK, info and links to many gardening sites http://gardennet.com
Links, links links to all kinds of gardening info and ordering http://www.gardenmart.com/glinks.html#ma...
A nonprofit organization promoting Native American crop seeds http://www.desert.net/seeds/
Good variety of seed sources http://www.seedquest.com/SeedCompanies/s...
Tom Clothier's database of seed starting information...for help dealing with those purchases, and other good info: http://www.anet-chi.com/~manytimes/
Now is the time to prune deciduous trees and you can also prune citrus now to get rid of dead wood and to scale down size of plant, if necessary. Prune shrub roses for shape only and to remove crossing or dead branches. Cut back hybrid tea roses by about a third, leaving the strongest three to five canes to produce this year's flowers.
You can still plant any chilled bulbs you have left and start seeds inside for warm weather veggies such as cucumber, eggplant, melon, pepper, squash, and tomatoes for transplanting out into the garden after all danger of frost is past. Continue planting cool season crops outside where they will get six to eight hours of sun daily. Acidify and fertilize soil and mulch for best results.
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