Horticulture
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Horticulture
Horticulture is an effort to create a coherent and wide-ranging guide to the practice of gardening. The text is intended for use by horticulture students, horticultural workers, and home gardeners.
The project scope aims at temperate-region gardens, spanning the USDA Hardiness Zones 4-8.
Contributing
- An invitation to contribute
- Manual of style
- Using the page templates to begin a new page
- Discuss the project
- List of contributors
Garden techniques
- Elements of a Garden Location
- First Steps in Planning a Garden
- Laying Out a Garden Bed
- Putting a Garden Plan into Action
- Container Gardening
- Permaculture
- Raised Beds
- Rock Gardens
Soils, composting and mulches
The importance of knowing about your soil type and what will grow best in it as well as how to make changes to it and improve it.
Propagation methods, seeds and sowing
Garden plants
- Outdoor Plants/Flowers
- Outdoor Plants/Foods
- Outdoor Plants/Grasses
- Trees
- Shrubs
- Fungi and Lichen
- Mosses and Bryophites
House plants
Weeds
Pests and diseases
Tools
Materials
- Seed Exchanges
Seed exchanges work by trading seeds for free in the mail.
About.com has a list of seed exchanges.
The largest seed exchange is Gardenweb. You can search members' lists of seeds available for exchange, or you can join a round robin exchange where you contribute seeds to a group and receive seeds back in exchange.
