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Organic Gardening

Start here

• Organic Gardening 101 is an overview.

More Articles on This Site

• Three Keys to Organic Gardening Success by Kathy LaLiberte, founding gardener of the Gardeners Supply Company.
• Secrets of Great Soil — How Fungus Turned my Thumb Green by Kathy LaLiberte, founding gardener of the Gardeners Supply Company
• The Truth about Organic Gardening Part 1: Weeds and Feeds
• The Truth about Organic Pesticides
• No-Till Gardening by Jeff Gillman, Department of Horticulture, University of Minnesota
• Just Say No to Poisons by Ginny Stibolt
• Vegetables that SHOULD be Organic by Stuart Robinson
• How to Make Compost Tea by Kathy LaLiberte, founding gardenern of the Gardeners Supply Company
• "My Garden Practices Aren't so Out There After All!'" declares Debra Teachout-Teashon about her life-long devotion to organic gardening.

Great Information in Print

• Organic Gardening Magazine
• The Truth about Organic Gardening by Jeff Gillman
• The Truth about Garden Remedies by Jeff Gillman
• Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control by Ellis and Bradley
• Burpee's Complete Vegetable and Herb Gardener: A guide to Growing Your Garden Organically
• Rodale's Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
• Elements of Organic Gardening by Donaldson
• Organic Gardening: Your Season Companion to Creating a Beautiful and Delicious Organic Gardenby Maria Rodale
• New Organic Gardener by Eliot Coleman
• Four Season Harvest by Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch and Kathy Bray
• Garden Primer is Barbara Damroch's classic about growing food.
• Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden Design School
• Naturalistic Gardener by Ann Lovejoy
• A Year Along the Garden Path by Ann Lovejoy
• The American Mixed Border by Ann Lovejoy
• Gardenng from Scratch by Ann Lovejoy
• Organic Lawn Care Manual by Paul Tukey, creator of the important SafeLawns campaign.
• Grow Organic by Oster and Walliser. And and here's a review by Kathy Purdy.
• The Informed Gardener by Linda Chalker-Scott

Great Information Online

• Weed Solutions the Organic Gardening Magazine website
• Pest information on Organic Gardening Magazine's website
• Disease informatoinon the Organic Gardening Magazine website.
• Transcript of Paul James explaining organic gardening on his HGTV show "Gardening by the yard"
• Ann Lovejoy's "Sustainable Gardening" column in the Kitsap Sun
• What an organic Maryland nursery says about organics

And on Television

• Watch HGTV's "Gardening by the Yard" with Paul James, organic gardener.