NEGrows Resources


		The following are just a few select resources from the thousands available on the internet, to help you get started in your search for information and answers. Inclusion here is not meant as a recommendation to the exclusion of those not listed. If you have useful sites, please recommend them to us (leonard.perry@uvm.edu)
		New England Home Gardening Online Extension Publications The following links will lead you to Extension leaflets on many topics which you can print out to answer questions, learn how to choose plants and care for them, whether they are woody plant, flower, fruit, or vegetable. General Gardening Lawns Houseplants Woody Plants, Groundcovers Flowers Vegetables Fruits Pests Diseases Problems (and weeds) More File addresses ending in "pdf " require Adobe Acrobat to read, which you can download for free.

	General Gardening Adaptive Gardening, Gardening with Limitations .pdf Allergies and Gardening Alternatives to Invasive Landscape Plants .pdf Applying Fertilizers on Home Gardens Bird Feeding Butterfly Garden .pdf Butterflies in Your Garden Cats and Wildlife, Facts on Color in Flowers Components of a Backyard Wildlife Habitat Designing Your Landscape for Maine Drought Gardening Drought Tolerate Plants for NH Landscapes .pdf Fertilizing Landscape Plants Fertilizing Trees and Shrubs .pdf Fire-safe Landscapes First Aid for Bee and Insect Stings Garden Design and Styles Garden Design to Reduce Stress Garden Mazes and Labyrinths Efficient Water Use in Landscapes .pdf Garden Mulches .pdf Garden Railways Hardiness Historic Gardens Home Composting How Compost Happens Hummingbirds in Your Garden Invasive Perennials Keeping Your Yard Safe for Birds Landscape Design Basics Landscape Design for Homes Landscape Gardening in Clay Landscape to Conserve Energy Landscaping for Butterflies Low Maintenance Landscapes Northern Drought Resistant Plants Perennial Flower Garden Design pH for the Garden Planning a Backyard Wildlife Habitat Planning Home Landscapes Plant Hardiness Planting Shoreland Areas .pdf Plants for Historic Gardens Poisonous Plants Poisonous Plants in Pastures .pdf Potentially Harmful Perennials Preparing the Garden for Winter Principles for Creating a Backyard Wildlife Habitat Propagation of Perennials Proper Mulching Purchasing Compost .pdf Purchasing Topsoil .pdf Rock Gardening Rooting Cuttings Slow Release Fertilizers for Landscapes .pdf Soil Organic Matter Testing Your Soil Trickle Irrigation Understanding your Soil Test Results .pdf Using Plants in the Landscape .pdf Using Your Compost .pdf Water Gardening Why Plants Fail to Bloom Wildflower (Successful) Meadows Winter Injury Winter Protection of Roses Why a Backyard Habitat Lawns Choosing Seed for the Lawn .pdf Establishing a Home Lawn Fertilizing Home Lawns .pdf Home Lawn Maintenance Insect Pests of Home Lawns .pdf Installing and Maintaining a Sod Lawn .pdf Lawn Diseases (VT) Lawn Diseases (NH) .pdf Lawn Problems Leave Those Clippings on the Lawn .pdf Managing Phosphorus on Lawns .pdf Moles in Home Lawns .pdf Moss and Mushrooms in Home Lawns .pdf Nitrogen and Lawns .pdf Powdery Mildew in Lawns .pdf Preventing Lawn Diseases .pdf Proper Lawn Management to Protect Water Quality Starting and Overseeding Home Lawns .pdf Turfgrass Diseases, cultural management .pdf Using Plants as Indicators to Diagnose Turf Problems .pdf Houseplants Cacti and Succulents Indoors Common Houseplant Problems .pdf Flowering Potted Plants Houseplant Problems Houseplants from the Kitchen .pdf Indoor Lighting for Houseplants Natural Holiday Decorations Woody Plants, Groundcovers Fertilizing Trees and Shrubs .pdf Flowering Crabapples Flowering Crabapples for Maine Forcing Flowering Branches Groundcovers Growing Lilacs (VT) Growing Lilacs (NH) .pdf Growing Rhododendrons and Azaleas in Northern New England .pdf Hedges Landscaping Woodland Areas .pdf Large Shrubs and Small Trees for Screening Northern Drought Resistant Plants Pruning Deciduous Shrubs .pdf Pruning Evergreens .pdf Pruning Shade Trees .pdf Pruning Trees and Shrubs Pruning Woody Landscape Plants Salt Tolerance of Trees and Shrubs Selecting, Planting, and Caring for Trees and Shrubs in Maine Steps to Follow Planting Trees and Shrubs .pdf Transplanting Wild Trees Flowers Annual Flowers Bulbs for Spring Bloom Caring for Perennials Cut Flowers .pdf Daylilies Deer Resistant Perennials Fall Perennial Care Flowers for Shade F orcing Bulbs Indoors Fragrant Perennials Garden Chrysanthemums Growing Ferns .pdf Growing Flowering Perennials .pdf Growing Peonies Growing Perennials in Containers Growing Perennials Growing Roses (VT) Growing Roses (NH) .pdf Hardy Roses Hostas, Choosing and Growing Invasive Perennials Landscaping with Flowers .pdf Northern Drought Resistant Plants Perennial Flower Garden Design Perennials--Choosing and Planting Perennial Species for Containers Potentially Harmful Perennials Summer Flowering Bulbs Tree Peonies Why Plants Fail to Bloom Wildflower (Successful) Meadows Winter Protection of Roses (VT) Winter Protection of Roses (NH) .pdf Vegetables Fertilizing Vegetables .pdf Growing Asparagus and Rhubarb .pdf Growing Beans .pdf Growing Cole Crops .pdf Growing Potatoes .pdf Growing Potatoes in the Home Garden Growing Root Crops .pdf Growing Tomatoes .pdf Growing Vegetables in Containers .pdf Guidelines for using Manure on Vegetable Gardens Intensive Vegetable Gardening .pdf Key Vegetable Problems Kitchen Garden Herbs .pdf Planning a Winter Vegetable Garden .pdf Starter Solutions for Vegetable Crops .pdf Sweet Corn Production .pdf Ten Steps to Success with your Vegetable Garden .pdf Timing Vegetable Transplants .pdf Fruits Care of the Mature Backyard Apple Tree .pdf Choosing the Right Apple Rootstock .pdf Dwarf Apple Trees for Home Gardens .pdf Fertilizing Fruit Crops .pdf Growing Currants and Gooseberries .pdf Growing Fruit Trees .pdf Growing Grapes .pdf Growing Highbush Blueberries (NH) .pdf Growing Highbush Blueberries (ME) Growing Peaches .pdf Growing Pears .pdf Growing Raspberries and Blackberries (NH) .pdf Growing Raspberries and Blackberries (ME) Growing Strawberries (NH) .pdf Growing Strawberries (ME) Home Fruit Spray Schedule .pdf Planting and Early Care of Fruit Trees Prune Fruit at the Right Time .pdf Renovating Old Apple Trees Training and Pruning Young Apple and Pear Trees .pdf Using Refined Horticultural Oils on Fruit Trees .pdf Pests Alternatives to Invasive Landscape Plants .pdf Aphids (VT) Aphids (NH) .pdf Asiatic Garden Beetle (VT) Asiatic Garden Beetle (NH) .pdf Beetles on Ornamental plants .pdf Beneficial Insects in Your Backyard Blueberry Maggot .pdf Cabbage Maggot .pdf Chinch Bugs in lawns Colorado Potato Beetle .pdf Cutworms .pdf Earwigs European Corn Borer .pdf European Fire Ants Flea Beetles (VT) Flea Beetles (NH) .pdf Fungus Gnats Hemlock Wooly Adelgid .pdf How Insecticides Work Imported Cabbage Worm .pdf Insect Pests of Home Lawns .pdf Integrated Pest Management .pdf Japanese Beetles Lady Beetles Lily Leaf Beetle .pdf Perennial Problems and Pests Raspberry Cane Borer .pdf Striped Cucumber Beetle .pdf Tarnished Plant Bug .pdf many more from Vermont Diseases Black Knot on Plums and Cherries .pdf Hollyhock Rust Lawn Diseases (VT) Lawn Diseases (NH) .pdf Lawn Problems Powdery Mildew Powdery Mildew in Lawns .pdf Powdery Mildew on Phlox and Monarda Powdery Mildew Controls on Phlox and Monarda Preventing Lawn Diseases .pdf Rose Diseases .pdf Seedling Damping-off Ten Easy Steps to Prevent Common Garden Diseases .pdf Tomato Leaf Spots .pdf Turfgrass Diseases, cultural management .pdf many more from Vermont Problems (and weeds) Animal Pests of Flowers Beneficial Insects .pdf Broadleaf Lawn Weeds .pdf Common Container Garden Problems .pdf Crabgrass .pdf Cut Flowers .pdf Dealing with Woodchuck Damage .pdf Deer Resistant Perennials Lyme Disease Moles in Home Lawns .pdf Nuisance Wildlife Around Homes .pdf Perennial Problems and Pests Relative Tolerance of Trees to Air Pollution Injury .pdf Slugs (NH) .pdf Slugs and Snails (VT) Tree Guards for Tree and Shrub Protection .pdf Why Plants Fail to Bloom For more, including ones specific for a state or available in hard copy to order, visit the Extension Publications catalogs: Maine (includes many specific invasive plant leaflets not listed here) Massachusetts (listings for ordering books, other) New Hampshire New Jersey New York (includes an interactive flower selector) Pennsylvania Vermont (includes many entomology and disease leaflets not listed here) In addition, press articles on these and additional topics can be found listed by season, or topic, and searchable.

Links provided by leonard.perry@uvm.edu. Inclusion here is not meant as a recommendation to the exclusion of those not listed. If you have useful sites, please recommend them to us.

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