These Internet links access sites that may be of interest to
you.
Family
Gardening: Choosing Plants for the Home Landscape
Helpful advice on finding, choosing, and buying plants for home landscapes,
as well as designing good garden layouts and compositions.
Irrigation
and Green Industry: Landscape Section
Many articles useful to landscapers and those working with them. Articles
explore water features, flowers, equipment maintenance, spring and summer
colors, aphid control and much more.
USEPA Green
Acres: Green Landscaping with Native Plants
The Environmental Protection Agency's informative page on sustainable
landscaping using native wildflowers and grasses.
Today's
Homeowner | Expert Advice on Improving Your Home | Around the Yard
A wealth of articles on home and outdoor improvement. Articles cover such
diverse topics as planting around patios, saving water, buying sod,
transitioning indoor plants to the outdoors, and planting noise-muffling trees.
HomeTime
Landscape and Gardening
A great online resource about landscaping information and products. Sections
include How-To Information, Instructional Videos, Project Plans, Books, and
Users Forums.
Information
about Hardiness Zones
A comprehensive list of links to sites with maps and explanations of the
USDA Hardiness Zones. Information helps indicate which kinds of plants are
appropriate for your local climate.
Family
Gardening: Choosing Plants for the Home Landscape
Helpful advice on finding, choosing, and buying plants for home landscapes,
as well as designing good garden layouts and compositions.
Lawn
Care and Maintenance Guide
Seed vs. sod; protecting your yard from insect pests, weeds, and diseases; more.
From Bayer Advanced Lawn.
Lawn
Care Advice from the Scotts Company
What to do now, problem solving, interactive tools, and video quick tips, from
Scotts.
Ask
Earl, The Yard-Care Answer Guy
A mega-lawn database, from the Toro Company. Type in a question for Earl about
all types of lawn and yard problems.
Diagnose
Your Lawn
The Weed-Man offers a large online library of lawn care tips and articles. From
Turf Management Systems Inc.
Lawn
Maintenance Calendar
When should you seed, dethatch, or fertilize? Here's a handy chart on what to do
and when to do it, based on whether your lawn is cool-season or warm-season.
From Lawn-Boy.
Yard
and Garden Articles
Among the various articles on yard and garden, there is a healthy amount of
information on turfgrass care here. From the U. of Saskatchewan.
Clean
Air Lawn Care
Did you know that a conventional lawn mower pollutes as much in an hour as 40
late model cars? Neither did we. From the South Coast AQMD, a smog control
agency.
Thatch
Prevention and Control
Thatch defined, how to control its accumulation in your yard, and the best ways
to remove it. From U of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Lawn
Projects
DIYNet has a collection of lawn projects, from growing grass in the shade, to
dethatching, to lawnmower maintenance.
