Resources for Gardeners
Dig into our new resource hub and find links to free webinars, articles and videos about plants, seeds, soil, community gardening and more. Looking for a new project? Want to grow your own healthy food at home? Trying to find a gardening podcast? Here are some tips, ideas and tools to help you grow.
Fruits
- Growing Tomatoes & Nightshades webinar
- Growing Tomatoes & Nightshades handout
- Why grow tomatoes in containers
- Fruit Gardener's Bible book review
- Tips for growing melons in the north
- Apple tree pruning made easy
- Info for fruit and veggie producers during pandemic
- Growing fruits in MN
- When to harvest fruits and vegetables
Gardening with Children
Growing Food
- Indoor Kitchen Gardening book review
- Gardening by Cuisine book review
- Northern Heartland Kitchen book review
- Organic Edibles for Small Spaces webinar
- Introduction to Mushroom Cultivation webinar
- Is it Safe to Grow Food on a Boulevard?
- Food Safety Fact Sheets
- Info for Gardeners Donating Food
- When to Harvest Fruits and Vegetables
Community Gardening
Herbs
In the Garden
- Backyard Heroes webinar
- Backyard Heroes webinar handout
- Plants for Specific Landscape Uses webinar
- Ask a Gardening Question
- Garden Planning webinar
- Garden Planning webinar handout
- Covid-19 Garden Template
- What's a Gardener to Do?
- Grow-it-Yourself Bouquets
- DIY Greenhouse on a Budget
- Vertical Gardening How-tos
- Pruning Hydrangeas
- Red Dirt Ramblings
- Small-Space Gardening on a Budget
- St. Paul Gardening
- Keep Calm and Garden
- Organics Locator Map
- Hydroponic Year-Round Gardening webinar
- Identifying Weeds
- Herbicide Treatment for Buckthorn
Native Plants
- Landscaping for Shade with Native Plants webinar
- Landscaping for Shade with Native Plants webinar handout
- Landscaping with Native Plants webinar
- Landscaping with Native Plants webinar handout
- Native Plant Landscaping for Wetlands & Rain Gardens webinar
- Native Plant Landscaping for Wetlands & Rain Gardens webinar handout
- What You Plant Matters
Projects and Programs
- Garden Photography webinar
- How to Draw Leaves
- Garden Answer Library
- Monty Don's American Gardens
- Garden Photo Wood Blocks
- Paint a Terra Cotta Pot
- Design a New Garden Bed
- Create a Garden Mosaic
- Quarantine Tips for Parents and Families
- Top 10 Kid-Tested Activities to Do at Home
- Kids Garden Month
- Make Your Own Garden Plant Markers
Recursos en Español (Resources in Spanish)
- Como cultivar semillas en casa (starting seeds at home)
- Cultivando plantas desde semillas en el jardín (growing plants from seed in the garden)
- Cómo comenzar su huerto casero (how to start your home garden)
- Suelo saludable para plantas saludables (healthy soil for healthy plants)
- Cultivando trasplantes saludables en el jardín (growing healthy transplants in the garden)
- Cómo crear un jardín de siembra superficial o sin excavaciones (create a no-dig garden)
Saving & Growing Seeds
- 6 Tips for Seed-Starting Success
- Starting Seeds Indoors
- Best Equipment for Seed Starting
- Seed Starting webinar
- Seed Starting webinar handout
- Winter Sowing
- Germination and Growing Temps
- Seed Stories podcast
- Community Seed Network
- The Exchange hosted by Seed Savers Exchange
- Seed Savers Exchange
- North Circle Guide to Seed Saving
- North Circle Seed Saving Workshops
- July 2020 Seed Saving Q & A
Vegetables
- Handling, Harvesting & Storing Veggies
- Grow Your Vegetables webinar
- New Vegetables for 2020
- 6 Tips for New Vegetable Gardeners
- 8 Steps to Growing Your First Veggie Garden
- Shade Tolerant Vegetables
- How to Start Vegetables with Winter Sowing
- Why Grow Tomatoes in Containers
- How to Create Beauty in a Veggie Garden
- Best Books for Beginning Vegetable Gardeners
- Vertical Vegetables book review
- Hydroponic Gardening book review
- Postage Stamp Vegetable Gardening book review
- Indoor Kitchen Gardening book review
- Gardening by Cuisine book review
- Books for Beginning Vegetable Gardeners book review
- Wildlife-Friendly Vegetable Gardening book review
- Northern Heartland Kitchen book review
- Organic Edibles for Small Spaces webinar
- Heirloom Dry Beans
- Growing Microgreens
- Is it Safe to Grow Food on a Boulevard?
- Asparagus 101
- 5 Must-Try Carrots
- Long-Season Vegetables to Grow
- Info for Fruit and Veggie Producers During Pandemic
- Food Safety Fact Sheets
- Info for Gardeners Donating Food
- Tips for Growing Veggies (AM950 radio program)
- When to Harvest Fruits and Vegetables