Gardening

Gardening Indexes at: Yahoo | Google
Online Botanic Reference Sites by William Rubel
Growing Lifestyle
Bachmans.com/
Anglian Gardner
Ortho: Product Guide
Scotts: Gardening 
See Also: Lawn Care
how-to-care-for-your-lawn at howtodothings.com

Rutgers Cooperative Research & Extension of Somerset County at RCE
Pests of Homes, Structures, People, and Pets at UC Davis
You Bet Your Garden at WHYY, Philadelphia, by Mike McGrath

www.forestry-sales.com/insects/INTRODUCTION TO TREE INSECT
Home Horticulture
 Bugwood Network entomology, forestry, forest health

Get Growing with Farmer Fred - Central and N. California
perennialgardener.com
Sacramentogardening.com
UC Davis Small Farm Center

Hardiness Zones:
2006 Arbor Day Foundation update

In response to requests for up-to-date information, the Arbor Day Foundation developed the new zones based on the most recent 15 years' data available from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 5,000 National Climatic Data Center cooperative stations across the United States.

The new map reflects that many areas have become warmer since 1990 when the last USDA hardiness zone map was published. Significant portions of many states have shifted at least one full hardiness zone.

Changes from 1990 to 2006 at ArborDay.org
1990 Map
Gardening zones
Source: usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/ushzmap.html
Many places e.g. Los Angeles (zone 9-11), Truckee, CA (zones 5b-7b), New Brunswick, NJ (6a-7a), cover a range depending on where you are in the city.
See: usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/ (N. America)

Zn Minimum Temp

1 < -50° F Fairbanks

2 -50 to -40° Prudhoe Bay, AK

3 -40 to -30° International Falls, MN; N. Montana, Jackson Hole, Calgary

4 -30 to -20° SD, VT, Park City, Vail

5 -20 to -10° Denver, Des Moines, IL, W. MA, Whistler

6 -10 to 0° St. Louis, NJ, Boston, Lake Tahoe

7 0 to 10° Oklahoma City, VA

8 10 to 20° Dallas, Gainsville

9 20 to 30° Sacramento, Houston; Central FL

10 30 to 40° Victorville, CA; Miami

11 > 40° Honolulu; Mazatlan, Mex.

See Also: Plant Hardiness Zones at thegardenhelper.com

Miscelaneious Notes:

Fall Watering:
One of the most neglected fall chores is watering...once the weather cools, we often forget that our plants still need water. In areas that freeze hard in the winter, late season watering is especially critical because roots will be unable to take in moisture when the soil is frozen. Be sure your gardens are well irrigated shortly before freeze up, whether by deep, soaking rains or by your irrigation system.

Deer Management:
Wireless Deer Fence
Mike's Anti-Deer Recipe

Deer Resistant Plants at Rutgers, Cornell, Deer and People in NJ at aesop.rutgers.edu

See Also:
Frost Dates at gardenshoponline.com

Miscelaneous:
Inflating a tubless wheelbarrow tire

last updated 26 July 2007