Seed and Garden Supply Catalogs and Product Reviews

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Here you will find where to order some great seed and other garden supply catalogs and product and book reviews!

Time to order those seed catalogs, so you can start looking through them to order your seeds for your gardens! Or for faster , easier ordering, order right here from their websites! You can also look over the beautiful pictures of flowers and vegetables and plan your garden layouts if only in your head. Also you'll find great garden supply catalogs for most of your gardening needs here. I will include toll free phone numbers if they are available. A lot of these catalogs also offer gift certificates, too. And most have e-mail newsletters you can sign up for. I'll be doing reviews on my favorite garden catalogs, but check in often, as I will continue to keep adding more. I put in a few reviews about my favorite garden books also. Just "click" on the book or other garden products in most sections, and that will take you to see the product and get a better description, and you can purchase it from Amazon there. I've also included some videos you might enjoy watching about harvesting seeds and gardening with raised beds and a few others on gardening, including how to start planting seeds indoors. And check out my section on plant hardiness zones. There you can go to several websites and get info on which climates are best suited for growing what plants. Enjoy! PLEASE NOTE: E-bay updates its items at auction daily, so keep checking back for more garden goodies in my E-bay sections! So instead of filling your station wagon, suv, or truck with plants from a few varieties, fill your mailbox with these catalogs with LOTS of varieties of seeds and plants to choose from, and start growing your own! If you have a favorite catalog related to seeds, plants,trees,or garden supplies, let me know about it in the comment box near the bottom and include the website if you know it, so that I can consider including it here on my lens. Happy gardening!

Yummy Tomatoes to Grow 

Tomatoes are one of the top vegetables to grow in a home garden.

Harris Seeds 

My Favorite Seed Source

Harris Seeds is my favorite catalog to order from. They've been around since 1879. I've always had good service with them in the past and their prices are very reasonable. Their seeds perform well for me. It's always a good idea to order your seeds and plants from the part of the country where you will be planting them, although you can order from other parts as well. Harris Seeds is based in Rochester, New York. You can order your seeds, plants, bushes, a few grapes and berries, and a most unusual columnar apple tree, which produces no branches and takes up less space then the traditional apple trees. They also offer many other garden supplies such as: watering wands,water timer,trellis netting,soil tester meter, Jiffy pellets, Jiffy pots, heat mats, plant labels and marking pens, wonderful light stands, growing mix, row covers, plastic mulch, plant protectors, nice shovels and spades, knives, gloves, greenhouses, pest control supplies, gardening tools, garden ready transplants, and even flagpoles! Click here to order from their website or for a free catalog. www.harrisseeds.com Here is their toll-free phone number: 1-800-514-4441

Pinetree Garden Seeds 

Favorite seed catalog from my home state of Maine

Pinetree Garden Seeds has a wonderful source of seeds and supplies for your gardening needs at very reasonable prices. They also have plants like berries, potatoes,rhubarb and a nice variety of herb seeds. My favorite items they carry though are their gardening and nature and cookbooks at below publishers prices! They have some books I haven't found elsewhere, including childrens books on gardening,wood crafts,fairy houses,nature crafts,seashore life,etc. There is a good selection of recipe books on herbs,dips,salsas,crackers,veggies fresh from your garden recipes and more.There are also wonderful picture books of gardens to enjoy browsing through! Order their seed catalog and you won't be disappointed. You do need to order EARLY from them, or face waiting awhile,as I found during the rush seed planting time my order took awhile to reach me, even though I'm in Maine! Click here for their website where you can order from them and get their free catalog> catalog

Johnny's Selected Seeds 

Another seed catalog from Maine

Johnny's seeds is another good source for your seed and garden supplies, although I find them a bit more pricey than Pinetree Garden Seeds. I did order some of their seed starter mix that was reasonable, and they ship quick! They have a good selection of seeds and lots of glossy full color photos and details. Click here for a free catalog from their website> catalog
Their toll free phone number is 1-877-Johnnys (1-877-564-6697)

Gurney's Seed & Nursery Co. Catalog from Indiana 

Since 1820

Here is one of the oldest seed sources I've found. You've probably heard the name if you're a gardener. Order their large (13"x9"), catalog filled with glossy, color photos. They offer seeds,plants,bulbs, a nice variety of nut trees, potatoes, blueberry bushes, fruit and flowering trees, shade trees, lots of luscious berry varieties, asparagus plants, slug control without chemicals, and some supplies, including tree supports.
Click on their banner here for easy ordering on their website. Gurney's 120 x 60

Henry Fields Seed & Nursery Co. Catalog From Indiana 

Since 1892

Another well known name in the gardeners world, Henry Field's has been around since 1892.Their thick 100 page catalog is filled with bright, glossy, color photos. Here you'll find seeds, plants, bulbs, peanuts, ground covers, hedges, ornamental grasses, roses, flowering and shade trees, fruit and nut trees, indoor fruit trees, house plants, an inoculant for your peas and beans, fertilizer spikes, plant food, seed starter supplies,beneficial insects, wine making supplies, a strawberry huller and strawberry pyramid to grow your strawberries in, and large, color photos of berries that look absolutely luscious! Click on the banner below to go to their website, where you can order.

Save $10 off your $30 order - the best seeds and nursery stock at HenryFields.com!

R.H. Shumway's Catalog 

Large 13.5"x10.5" catalog from Wisconsin

This very large catalog has a few glossy, color illustrations in the front and back, while the rest of the catalog is black & white newsprint format with lots of large illustrations that look as if they come from an old-fashioned newspaper. Along with seeds and plants, they sell seed starting supplies, wooden berry boxes, an owl scarecrow, a wonderful High Kentucky Wheel Cultivator(that I wouldn't mind having just to stand in my garden as a decoration). They also have berry plants, fruit trees, a cherry stoner, fruit picker, garlic press, mole chaser, netting, composter, vegetable steamer, bean slicer, bean trellis, plant stakes, mini greenhouse, kitchen grinding mill, weather watch, vegetable slicer, natural~ anti-mosquito & anti- poison ivy soaps, Japanese beetle trap, PotMaker, steam canner, salsa maker, hot kaps, wall o' water, soda bottle wasp trap, herb mill, dial seed sower, cover crops, peanuts, Blue Dent corn from the American Hopi Indians, practical produce cookbook, onion blossom maker, aluminum sulfate to acidify the soil for your blueberries, grass seed, and a bargain hunters one cent sale. Check out all these garden goodies on their website, where you can also order a free catalog Here There toll-free phone number is 1-800-342-9461

The Cook's Garden 

Wonderful Source for gardeners who cook

The Cook's Garden at Cook's Garden Website is in Pennsylvania and their catalog is filled with large, glossy, color pictures and even some recipes to keep. Founded in Vermont 25 years ago, they offer seed packets, a few starter plants, berries and grapes, a salad spinner, seed sprouter, lots of herbs for cooking with, edible flowers, flower seed mixes, bamboo trellis, some seed starter supplies, and books, a hand cultivater, canning supplies, delightful garden baskets, and wooden cutting boards that are handcrafted in Vermont of North American maple. This catalog is worth keeping for the delicious recipes in it! Their toll-free phone number is 1-800-457-9703.

Nichol's Garden Nusery of Oregon 

2008 catalog review

Toll-free phone number 1-800-422-3985
Nichol's Garden Nursery Nichol's Website Here They have a safe seed pledge, go Here to learn more. Nichol's has always supported organic gardening by offering only untreated seeds since Rose Marie's parents first printed a catalog in 1950. Their catalog has a handy index. They offer vegetable & flower seeds, plants, cheese-making supplies, vegetarian pectin, sourdough, bakers yeast, clear gel, teas & infusers, herbs & spices, pantry pest trap, essential oils, herbal nail fungus soak, culinary herb poster, ecology lawn mixes, soaps,potpourri, cotton drawstring bags, seed starting supplies, recipe books, pop-up greenhouse, PotMaker,opaque wedding seed envelopes, wedding seeds, Hori Hori tool, and MY favorite: tower trellis and vegetable ladder trellis made from unstained Douglas Fir that fold for storage. And for your chickens- they have a new Nichol's Chicken Scratch (seeds of greens to feed to your free-range chickens).They wiil also include a free packet of seeds with your order in hopes you will participate in "Plant a Row For the Hungry"-A program of the Garden Writers Assoc.,(find out more on Rose Marie's blog titled "The Gardener's Pantry"). Her blog is all about things related to gardening and food. Find out more about her blog on their website or just "click"> Here
They also have a "Plant Day Sale" the Saturday after Mothers Day. So, if you are in the Oregon's Willamette Valley area then, visit their herb gardens and meet the knowledgeable staff,see demonstrations, and try herbal refreshments from their own recipes!
~Check out Rose Marie's book below!

Book From Nichol's Garden Nursery 

By Rose Marie Nichols McGee & Maggie Stucky

"Bountiful Container" softbound, 432 pages~$16.95.
Filled with all the basics for choosing which containers, determining soil type, applying fertilizer, and knowing when to plant from seed or seedlings. Methods for growing herbs, vegetables, and small fruit trees. Also includes recipes from America's finest gardeners and chefs!

Park Seed Co. Since 1868 

Toll-free phone number 1-800-845-3369

Park Seed from South Carolina has a 124 page catalog with large, glossy, color photos and from their website you can get free plans for a "Secret Garden." They carry seeds, plants, seed starting supplies, yellow sticky traps for trapping bugs, plant lights, labels, watering spike, soil test kit, flower growing pouch, soil analyzer, slug bait, mosquito trap, anti-bird netting, fertilizers, bloom & root boost, noodlehead sprinkler, pea fence, foam plant ties, UVB protection sun hats, garden tools, flower preserver, tumbleweed composter, hobby greenhouse, cold frames, pop-up greenhouse, organic seeds, seeder feeder, mushroom kits, sprouting seeds and small sprouter, tomato & bean towers, a garden condo, lots of culinary herb seeds, flower seed mats & tapes, fruit trees, berry bushes, pomegranaties, and a neat strawberry growing bag. Also, check out their Romanesco Veronica cauliflower (I'll put in a picture of it for you to see, in the space below), which is a lime green with peaked heads of small towering flowerettes that is described as mild and sweeter than regular cauliflower, for eating raw or cooked. It looks to me like something from Star Trek!
Park Seed Co. also has an 84 page plant and shrub catalog, and an exotic plants catalog. Click on banner to go to their website to order.
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Romanesco Veronicsa Cauliflower 

Brassica oleracea Romanesco Veronica

Sweeter and milder than Cauliflower -- and such plate appeal!

Could use this one as a table display!

85 days. Have you tried Romanesco yet? Veronica has lovely lime-green heads topped by tightly-beaded, pointed domes. Excellent raw or cooked, it boasts a milder, sweeter flavor than white Cauliflower, to say nothing of its appetizing visual appeal!

Native to the Mediterranean coast of Italy between Naples and Rome, Romanesco is often called "Italian Cauliflower," and it is a member of the Cauliflower family. Veronica is one of its most spectacular members, with lime-green heads, perfect spiraling, and a crisp, rich flavor that works well fresh or cooked.

Veronica grows vigorously, demonstrating excellent heat tolerance. Best as a fall crop, it should be picked young, when the heads are small, for the ultimate in tender flavor.

Success With Seed by Karen Park Jennings 

Book From Park Seed Co.

Order from Park Seed Co. Website (above).
~More than 400 genera & species described in detail!
~More than 1,000 color photos of seeds, seedlings, and mature plants.
~Info on starting materials and methods:light, heat & temperature, timing and cultural requirements.
~A cross reference index by common & botanical names.
~ A helpful glossary of gardening terms and botanical pronunciations.

Thompson & Morgan ~ Quality English Seeds Since 1855 

They have a beautiful website.

Thompson & Morgan of Jackson, NJ has the most beautiful and helpful website to use. Lots of colorful flowers and helpful planting guides and even an English garden diary. On their website you'll find an illustrated index, helpful guides for where and when to plant, what zones for planting in, garden planning ideas and lots more! They go into detail about the history of their company and have free seed and nutrition growing guide offers. Along with seeds and gardening supplies you can get pond, aquarium, and bird supplies. Their toll free phone number is 1-800- 274-7333. Click Here to go to their website and order a free catalog.

Jung Quality Seeds ~ Since 1907 

They have an easy website to use, where you click on plants.

Jung Quality Seeds in Wisconsin has a beautiful and easy to use website. They offer you seeds, plants, bulbs, bushes, berries, grapes, ornamental, nut and fruit trees, mushrooms, ferns, hostas, lilacs, gifts and gardening supplies. Also check out their beautiful perrenial plants. They also have a popcorn sheller for getting those kernels off the cob! Their toll-free phone number is 1-800-247-5864. You can order their large 11.5"x9.25" catalog filled with lots of glossy color photos here> Jung Quality Seeds NOTE: I just checked their website, and it says you have to place an order from the website to be put on their mailing list for a catalog, or it will be $3.00 that is refunded on next order.

Burpee's Seed Catalog 

Still in the Philadelphia area

At Burpee you can order their seeds and a free catalog. On their website, you can learn all about the legacy of W. Atlee Burpee and see images of their catalog covers going back to the 1800's and check out the gardeners corner where you can find "Tip of the Day". They have vegetable and flower seeds, herbs, bulbs, seed starter supplies, and other garden supplies. I don't have the catalog yet, so I cannot go into great detail yet. But, they do have that PotMaker you can use to make your own plant starter pots from newspaper(see in section below), and a snap bean Frencher device that lets you slice your beans French-style. You can also sign up for a Burpee's Platinum Plus Credit Card. Here is their toll-free phone number: 1-800-333-5808.

Territorial Seed Co. of Oregon 

Toll-free phone number 1-800-626-0866

Territorial Seed Co. has a thick catalog with colored pictures with lots of varieties of seeds, plants, herbs, bulbs, berries, garlic onion sets, and a variety of colors for potatoes. Supplies include: Asparagus growing book, asparagus knife, asparagus steamer, onions bags for storing your onions or garlic in, a marble mortar & pestle for crushing herbs, a garlic twist, book on growing garlic, mushroom kits, automatic sprouter, potting supplies, tons of labeling supplies, seeding tools, mulches, greenhouse supplies, cold frame, row covers, garden tools, trellisses, netting, twine, worms, composting stuff, natural fertilizers, pest & disease controllers, seed saving containers, bat house, beneficial insects, bees & supplies, stevia, pepper mills, an apple machine that slices,cores & peels, food mill, herb mill, popcorn popper, stainless steel steam juicer, vegetable strainer, bean Frencher, steam canner, garden shoes, hummingbird feeder, copper rainchain, whimsical forest faces to put on your trees, and other gift items. Click> Here for their website where you can order from there, or get a catalog.

Peaceful Valley Farm & Garden Supply~Organic for 32 years! 

Toll-free phone number 1-888-784-1722

At Peaceful Valley Farm (LOVE that name!) in California, you can order their thick catalog with color pictures & illustrations. Here's what they have: Seeds, plants, a nice 24"x36" organic vegetable poster, bulbs, mushrooms, lawn mixes, cover crops, books, growing & propagating supplies, burlap, redwood greenhouses, lots of watering & irrigation supplies, organic animal feed, fertilizer solutions chart, lots of natural fertilizers, pest solutions chart, composting equipment, beneficial insects & helpful chart, bees and supplies, bird,gopher,mole and deer control products, metal animal traps for releasing live animals harmlessly-elsewhere, tree guards, insect traps, slug & snail control products, natural insecticides, natural weed control products, pond products, buckets, cute childrens garden tools, knee pads, gloves, lots of pruning & hand garden tools, pitch forks, rakes, spades, hand cultivators, scythes, wheel hoes, metal harvest basket, pole fruit picker, sprayers, ladder, garden carts, tillers, spreaders, chipper-shredder, lots of garden books, storey's country wisdom bulletins, and an index to find all these items!

Spring Hill Nursery of Ohio 

Since 1849

Everything they sell is backed by their lifetime guarantee, so order without risk! Check out their fragrant lavender-pink lilac that blooms all summer! Lots of perennial plants for your garden in full, glossy colors. Shade plants, bargain bag section, ornamental grasses, one cent sale, bonsai kits, ground covers, Dura-cotta strawberry jar and plants kit, dwarf citrus trees for your patio, banana tree, dwarf pomegranate shrub, berries, roses, clematis and other vines, golden chain tree, weeping willow tree, Japanese red maple, among other trees, unusual Primrose lilac-that blooms yellow, hydrangeas, irises, hedges, and a beautiful, veriegated weigela shrub! They also have diagrams of garden designs, throughout their catalog. Click on banner below to go to Spring Hill Nursery.

Wayside Gardens 

Their toll-free phone number 1-800-845-1124

Wayside Gardens since 1916, from South Carolina has a 164 page catalog with 750 varieties of plants, flowering trees, shrubs, perennials, vines, ground covers, bulbs and roses with large, glossy photos and desctiptions for all! Click sale banner to go to their web site.
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Stokes Seeds, Inc. ~ since 1881 

Stokes Seeds, Inc. of Buffalo, NY has lots of seeds in their catalog of small, full color photos with lots of details about each. They also have a good variety of tools and garden supplies such as: garden tools set, wonder vases, presto bucket, plant light, soil heating cable, heated grower seed starter kit, tidy tray, soil test kit, garden seeder, copper plant tags, unique, plastic garden row marker that holds your seed packet to mark the planted rows, compost/soil thermometer, raised bed garden system, seed sprouter, frost cover bags to go over your hanging plants, portable garden seat, soft twist ties, velcro ties, knee pads, do-it-yourself stepping stones, pruning tools, backsaver rake, rain drain, outdoor sink, floating row covers, and sprinklers, among other things. Go here> Stokes for a catalog and to order on their website. Their toll-free phone number is 1-800-396-9238

Gourmet Seed International From New Mexico 

Their pledge: ...we pledge that we do not knowingly buy or sell genetically engineered seeds or plants.

Their catalog is black & white pages with a few black & white pictures. They have seeds including onion and asparagus seeds, and lots of organic seeds for sprouting, a sprouts for health booklet, a home sprouter, sprouting bags, as well as culinary knives, pruning tools, mesh produce bags, bottles of cajun fire hot sauce, Asian veggie seeds, heirloom corn seeds called "Bloody Butcher" that is nice for ornamental, but also for cornmeal or on the cob, with large 8"-12" ears, and 1 or 2 ears per stalk! They also have green, heavy-duty poly plant tie twine, natural sisal twine, calf skin work & garden gloves, a hobby mini greenhouse (see below), pruning saws, and a Japanese weeding sickle. Try their scarlet runner beans (mentioned in my Vegetables to Try in Your Garden Section,below).
Website Here

Hobby Mini Greenhouse 

From Gourmet Seed International

Acres U.S.A. Catalog ~Toll-free Phone Number: 1-800-355-5313 

Agriculture Related Books

Get a free sample issue of the monthly magazine for commercial-scale organic and sustainable farming and free book catalog. Books about: livestock, veterinary, farm business & marketing, crops, insect & pest control, lunar planning, gardening, biodynamics, greenhouses & hydroponics, eco-philosophy, homesteading, herbs, biomagnetism & energies.
website They hail from Texas.

Tomato Growers Supply Co. 

Toll-free phone number 1-888-478-73333

A tomato catalog from Florida> Here. This has lots of glossy,pictures with thorough descriptions of mostly tomatoes, but also some hot and sweet peppers, eggplants, growing supplies, a tomato strainer, tomato and chili pepper posters that measure 24"x36", and some gardening books.

Totally Tomatoes Catalog 

Toll-free phone number 1-800-345-5977

Although the name implies just tomatoes, they have a good variety of other vegetables and canning supplies, greenhouse & seed starter supplies, garden & pest control products, as well as fertilizers, weed killers, and soil test kits. Among some of their unusual veggies are their pearl cucumber (which is a very pale green, almost whitish pickling cuke), and their watermelon radish(which is creamy-colored outside and red inside and looks like a tiny watermelon when sliced open)! They have kitchen helpers for the gardener: pressure cooker, herb mill, bio-starter sprouter, slicer, strainer, a multi-purpose juicer/steamer/roaster, tomato knife, mud gloves, deluxe garden tote bag, gardeners kneeler seat, mini greenhouses, and lots of sweet & hot pepper and cucumber seeds, Mrs. Wages salad dressing and dip mixes and tomato sauce mixes, and a few nice cookbooks, including "The Joy of Pickling" and "Llewellyn's Moon Sign Book",(which is an almanac in it's 103rd year, featuring an expanded garden section). This book is over 400 pages! Their catalog has a free seed packets offer. This is their website> Totally Tomatoes From Wisconsin, and if you order at least $5.00 worth they will include free seeds in your order!

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Plow & Hearth 

Lots of garden & home supplies including: outdoor furniture & cushions, accents, garden tools. water features, and more. Check them out! Click on the banner.
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Breck's Dutch Bulbs 

Since 1818

Shop at Brecks.com for $25 off your order of $50 or more!
187 Years of Experience Assures Superior Bulbs for Your Garden
No organization has more knowledge about which bulbs grow and bloom best in all sections of the U.S. than Breck's. We take advance reservations, and then just as soon as the crops are harvested, our staff of Dutch Bulb Experts makes an on-the-spot selection of the finest bulbs available to fill those reservations.
Breck's full-time staff of bulb experts spends the entire year in Holland devoting themselves to obtaining cream-of-the-crop bulbs for shipment to our customers in America. Our experts all come from Dutch families who have been growing and marketing bulbs for several generations. They know how to pick the very best.

Ordering from Breck's is like having your own personal buyer right in Holland. Click on the banner above to order your bulbs and receive $25. off your $50. or more order!

Oriental Carpet Lily~Starlight Express 

Order yours from Breck's (Above).

An amazing oriental lily that boasts as many as 15 buds on each stem. Impressive buds open to reveal dark rose-red flowers displaying lavish petals outlined in white. Create a dream bouquet from these remarkable lilies that intoxicate with their fragrance and beauty. Short sturdy stems make them a perfect selection along walkways where everyone can enjoy them as they pass by. Rewarding to grow - a knockout choice that increases yearly in number and elegance. Zones 3-8. 16-18 cm bulbs. Height: 14-16" tall.

Cleopatra Dwarf Canna 

Grows 36-48" tall. Order from Breck's (Above).

Fit for royalty! With their yellow and red blooms and upright form, these gorgeous cannas resemble glowing torches. Lush foliage has striking, bronze-red markings. Ideal for pots or massing in borders. Plant in full sun. Zones 3-10. Lift in fall if you live in Zones 3-6. #1 rhizomes. Deer resistant.

Giant Tomatoes Book 

Giant Tomatoes

Amazon Price: $19.95 (as of 07/11/2009)Buy Now

Do you want to grow giant tomatoes?

Carrots Love Tomatoes 

Companion planting. Guide to show you which plants do better planted together, and which plants shouldn't be near each other.

Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening

Amazon Price: $9.72 (as of 07/11/2009)Buy Now

Companion planting

PotMaker 

Seed starting pot maker

I found this garden tool I just need to get! No more plastic pots for starting seeds. Here's the economical PotMaker that makes biodegradable plant pots from your old newspapers. It's a two-piece wooden device you use to make plant pots out of newspaper strips with, and you plant pot and all into the ground, so you won't be disturbing the roots! Ideal for starting your seedlings and young plants. Now you won't have to spend a lot of money on all those peat pots, and you'll be recycling your newspapers at the same time! Click on the words below to order yours! Then click main catalog. See the photo of one below. They also have lots of herbs.






Plants, Seeds, More!

PotMaker~Order Above

Kitchen Garden Cookbook 

Sproutman's Kitchen Garden Cookbook: 250 flourless, Dairyless, Low Temperature, Low Fat, Low Salt, Living Food Vegetarian Recipes

Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 07/11/2009)Buy Now

Vegetable Gardening

My Favorite Gardening Book 

Martha Stewart's Gardening Month by Month

Martha has a wealth of knowledge about gardening, which she learned a great deal of from her father. Her book," Martha Stewart's Gardening Month By Month" is my favorite gardening book to return to again and again. I bought mine 10 years ago, and it's STILL my favorite! In this book, she goes through each step of the gardening process in a month by month format, explaining what to do during each month of the year, as she shows you how she created her beautiful gardens at Turkey Hill Farm in Connecticut. You will learn how to plan your garden,about soil preparation,what and where to plant,all with gorgeous full color photos; 650 of them! There are also some botanical prints. You'll learn about growing vegetables,fruits, flowers and herbs, and see her beautiful rose gardens. She's even included some recipes! Martha also goes into detail about the best garden tools to use and how to clean and care for them to lengthen the use of them. There are also a few craft ideas for your gardens and sections on floral arrangements and drying your flowers. There is a handy index, bibliography and source guide in the back of this large 360 page hardcover book. Just click on the picture of the book below to order yours from Amazon, and to view inside the book!

Martha Stewart's Gardening: Month by Month

Amazon Price: $31.50 (as of 07/11/2009)Buy Now

My Favorite Gardening Book

Another Favorite Garden Book 

Tasha Tudor's Garden

Tasha Tudor's Garden is another wonderful book full of color photos of her gardens, mostly her flowers, at her farm in Vermont. This book is a joy to return to, for the pictures and to read about Tasha's gardening ideas, such as making her manure tea for her flowers. Click on the picture below to see and buy this book at Amazon.

Tasha Tudor's Garden

Amazon Price: $23.10 (as of 07/11/2009)Buy Now

Beautiful pictures of her gardens.

Seed Harvesting 

How to Harvest Seeds : Harvesting Fruit Seeds

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Growing Plants From Seed 

How to Grow Plants from Seed : How to Plant Seeds

Proper soil and climate are two elements that will make planting seeds successfully easier. Learn more in this free educational video series. Expert: Doug Smiddy Bio: Doug Smiddy worked for a very popular garden center and nursery for over 6 years, and now owns his own successful business, Smiddy's Gardening Services. Filmmaker: Dale Fitzgerald

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The New Seed Starter's Handbook 

The New Seed Starter's Handbook

Amazon Price: $12.89 (as of 07/11/2009)Buy Now

Help For Starting Seed Planting

Gardening this year? 

Will you be planting a garden this year?

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Great Garden Things For Pampering the Gardener 

How To Build a Raised Bed Garden 

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Lasagna Gardening 

English Cottage Garden Book 

English Cottage Gardening: For American Gardeners, Revised Edition

Although I have not yet seen this book, I found it at Amazon, and I love cottage gardens! Click on the book to purchase yours or to check it out over at Amazon!

English Cottage Gardening: For American Gardeners, Revised Edition

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Americans can grow an English Cottage Garden

Plant Hardiness Zones 

Also known as climate or growing zones.

Here are some websites you can go to, to find plant hardiness zones where you can get a general idea of what plants will grow in each climate.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Hardiness Zone Map of Europe

World Hardiness Zone Maps

Hardiness Zone Maps and Info For U.S.A. and Canada

Four Season Organic Gardening 

From the Coast of Maine

Check out this 236 page softcover book at Amazon by Eliot Coleman, from the coast of Maine where he will show you how to have a harvest of veggies through all the seasons, using cold frames and other methods. I hear that Martha Stewart likes using his methods! She too, has a home in Maine.

Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long

Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 07/11/2009)Buy Now

All season gardening

Gardening Photos on Flickr 

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Vegetable Gardening 

Planting a vegetable garden: Day 2

Today I completed my home vegetable garden & showed the steps to reach the completion. This video was created for thisisnotadiet.org, a Health & Fitness Site that gives new meaning to what it means to be on a diet!

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Garden Almanac For 2008 

Llewellyn's 2008 Moon Sign Book: A Gardening Almanac & Guide to Conscious Living (Llewellyn's Moon Sign Book S)

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Almanac with expanded garden section in it's 103rd year! Also provides recommended dates for fishing and hunting as well as weather forecasts. Includes complete tables and instructions on planting and harvesting. Over 400 pages!

Vegetables to Try in Your Garden. 

Give these veggies a try in your garden and add some flowers as well.

I first started a little garden of my own when I lived for a short time in Utah, when I was 12 years old. We had a tiny back yard, but I grew some of my very own radishes, and was fascinated with watching them sprout up out of the ground. My very own home-grown veggies! Radishes are wonderful for children to grow, as they germinate so quickly-within days. I always find a space for sweet corn. I love to watch the tiny seed sprout into tall stalks and then cook my very own fresh corn-on-the-cob. Peas growing on a fence are so refreshing to look at, even though they take a lot of room to grow. I do manage to get a few in the garden, although I plant the edible pod kind. Carrots are so much more delicious when they are your own freshly grown ones! I usually grow the Nantes,coreless type,but there are many nice varieties. My favorite winter squash to grow are butternut and acorn. They are superb, either baked or steamed! My favorite summer squash to grow are zucchini and yellow crookneck. Just slice them up and fry in butter, and season with salt and pepper. Most of these fresh grown veggies are delicious with just butter, salt and pepper, or your favorite herbs. Tomatoes are a top home gardeners favorite, and I like to grow a few cherry sized ones as well as medium sized ones for salads and a few beef sized ones for sandwiches. And I ALWAYS grow some cucumbers, both the long slicer kind and the small pickling ones, which I like best in salads. Beets look nice in a row in your garden, and I like to grow them for the delicious tops that I steam, then add salt and butter on! I use wooden poles in teepee style and ladder style to grow pole beans on. You can get a lot of beans this way. Pick them before they get too big, or they will be tough and mealy. If some go un-noticed in your garden,just pick them after they've filled out and dry them for the beans inside and add to soup. Pole beans are another great vegetable for children to grow,and they can make teepee houses to hide in while they eat fresh beans. Try growing some scarlett runner beans. The red blossoms are beautiful to look at while you wait for delicious,large,flat, Romano type beans. They are delicious cooked, then just add butter,salt,and pepper! Try a variety of colors for your beans~purple pod, yellow wax and regular green. Swiss chard is another favorite of mine that I now plant instead of spinach, simply because I have more luck with it and less pest infestation. Try the colorful Bright Lights mixture with red,yellow and white stems. These are so delicious steamed, stems and all! Also, they are another colorful favorite for a childrens garden. Tall sunflowers are another thing my garden is never without. I use them as a border around my garden. You can dry the seeds out to eat, but I usually just let the birds eat them in the fall. Let me know about YOUR garden experiences in my guestbook section below. Gardening is my favorite past-time, along with a lot of other Americans and I hear Europeans, too. Growing a garden is such a healthy activity, whether vegetables or flowers, or even just in containers, if you don't have enough room. Being out in the sun will give you your needed vitamin D, too. Gardening also reminds me of the parable of the sower in the Bible. Happy gardening!

Edible Rainbow Garden 

The Edible Rainbow Garden (Edible Garden)

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For Your Edible Rainbow Garden

Why Not Start a "Rainbow" Garden? 

Colorful Swiss Chard

Here's a picture of Bright Lights Swiss Chard. There are many rainbow colors of veggies you can put in your rainbow garden. You can get red, blue, white and yellow potato plants, green, yellow wax, or purple pod beans,or several colors of lettuce and red or green cabbages. Check them out for your rainbow garden! I've included some pictures of a few for you, here and below.

Colorful Tomatoes 

Colorful Cauliflower 

Here's a picture of Rainbow Cauliflower if you are looking to plant a rainbow garden!

Hot Pepper Mix 

Colorful Lettuce 

Red and green lettuce for your rainbow garden!

Colorful "Dancing Spirits" Hot Peppers! 

More Colorful Veggies! 

Kaleidoscope carrots for your rainbow garden!

Colorful Beans 

Pumpkins 

What's Halloween without a Jack-O-Lantern? Why not grow your own? We grew some out on our front lawn, where it gets the most sun and had plenty of room. You can choose from many sizes and even white ones!

Rainbow Indian Corn 

For ornamental use only.

Hatch a Plant in an Eggshell. 

Why not start some seeds in a cleaned out eggshell that has the top taken off? Just fill with your seed starting mix and plant herb or flowers seeds and put in egg cartons, in a sunny window (don't forget to water it),great for Easter flowering!

Eggling 

A porcelain egg pot. Neat idea!

Click on the picture to go see one and purchase at Amazon.

Eggling - Herb - Thyme

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Wonderful idea for bringing spring indoors!

For Gardening With Children 

A Child's Garden: 60 Ideas to Make Any Garden Come Alive for Children (Archetype Press Books)

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Great Ideas For Gardening With The Kids 

Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children

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Be Food Self-Sufficient 

Everyone's Guide to Food Self-Sufficiency

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Learn Self-Sufficiency

Vegetable Gardening 

Vegetable Gardening: From Planting to Picking - The Complete Guide to Creating a Bountiful Garden

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Veggies!

The Edible Garden 

The Edible Garden (Sunset)

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Great Edible Garden Book

Edible Herb Garden 

Edible Herb Garden (Edible Garden Series)

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Edibles

Companion Planting 

Great Garden Companions: A Companion-Planting System for a Beautiful, Chemical-Free Vegetable Garden

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Chemical- Free

Root Cellars 

Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables

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Learn About Root Cellars

Preserving What You Grow! 

Preserving Summer's Bounty: A Quick and Easy Guide to Freezing, Canning, and Preserving, and Drying What You Grow

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Preserving your harvest

The Joy of Pickling 

If you love pickling!

Canning ~ Ball's Bluebook 

The Ball Blue Book of Canning and Preserving Recipes Edition X (edition x)

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Preserve your bounty

Saving Seeds 

Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners

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Saving Seeds

Saving Seeds 

For Us Dummies! 

Canning & Preserving for Dummies

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Preserving & Canning

Country Living Cottage Gardens 

Country Living Cottage Gardens

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Great Gardening Book for Cottage Gardening

Cottage Gardens for North America 

Creating a Cottage Garden in North America

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Cottage Gardening Ideas

Remember the Victory Gardens Back During the War? 

Then you're older than I am.

The Victory Garden Companion

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Audubon Workshop 

Attract birds to your garden!

I'm including the Audubon Workshop from Indiana here (since 1937), as they have many items to attract birds for the bird lover. Among those items are: hummingbird feeders and supplies, high-quality bird foods, colorful bushes and flowers that attract birds of many kinds, butterfly houses and bushes to attract butterflies, bird baths and fountains, perennial grasses for birds to land on, shady and woodland garden plants, many different kinds of bird houses and suet holders, suet and worm meals for birds, ground covers and berry bushes for wildlife, songbird rock garden plants, a peanuts-in-the-shell-feeder, and a coconut shell feeder with suet in it, a Mason bee nest, bat houses, squirrel wheel cob, squirrel-proof bird feeders, and birdbath heaters and cleaners. Their catalog is filled with glossy, color photos.

Bird Gardens 

Jackson & Perkins 

The name that comes to mind when you think of roses!

This has got to be the top name in roses! They've been around for 135 years! Full color photos of roses, but they also have to offer: Perennials and bulbs, garden tools and plant care supplies, outdoor decor, a nice storage cubby and folding potting bench and garden tool shed, beautiful garden stuctures (look at them in the pictures below), and flowering gifts. And that's besides roses of all kinds and descriptions! Here is their toll-free phone number 1-800-872-7673.

Click Here to Save on Garden Decor Products at Jackson & Perkins!

Garden Decor

Award Winning Roses

Rare and Unusual Perennials.

Cathedral Garden Arches 

from Jackson & Perkins

Arbor Gate 

from Jackson & Perkins

For your climbing roses or clematis.

Cathedral Iron Pillar 

from Jackson & Perkins

Birdhouses and Feeder 

from Jackson & Perkins

Give the birds a place to stay in your garden!

Fleue de lis Trellis 

from Jackson & Perkins

Umbrella Trellis 

from Jackson & Perkins

Another great trellis for your garden!

Victorian Songbirds Arbor With Bench 

Before and After Garden Makeovers 

Before & After Garden Makeovers

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Create Your Garden

Guide to Vegetables, Fruits and Herbs 

HarperCollins Practical Gardener: Kitchen Garden: What to Grow and How to Grow It

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Practical Gardening

From Reader's Digest 

New Illustrated Guide to Gardening

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Guide to Gardening

New Junior Garden Book 

From Better Homes & Gardens Books

New Junior Garden Book: Cool projects for kids to make and grow (Better Homes and Gardens)

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Cool projects for kids to make and grow!

Gardening With The Kiddies 

Click on a picture below to get more info.

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Landscaping 

LandscapeUSA.com,
LandscapeUSA.com

Favorite Vegetables to Grow 

Tell the world your favorite veggie to grow in your garden.

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Gardeners Stuff on E-Bay 

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Plant Related Stuff on E-Bay 

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Gardeners Supplies on eBay 

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Garden Seeds & Related Stuff on E-Bay 

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Botanicals on E-Bay 

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My Birdbath

Hat For Gardening 

Lattice Gardener

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Gardening Gloves 

The Mud Glove 737a24

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Gardeners Apron 

Women's Straw Garden Hat 

Gardener's Hat

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If You Love To Garden 

Gardener Set

Amazon Price: $29.95 (as of 07/11/2009)Buy Now

If You Love Gardening 

Alibris--Look For Cheap Books on Gardening Here 

They also have music and movies, too!

Alibris

 

Shop at SpringHillNursery.com for $25 off your order of $50 or more!

Get Your Bulbs Here 

Dutch Gardens, Inc.

Leave me your gardening comments here! 

Leave your experiences about gardening here, or any comments or suggestions. Thanks!

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