Home Gardens – Reader Mailbag

Posted by LivingProvident on Jan 28th, 2010 | one comment home title

Recently we received a great question from a reader that has a family of seven in Tennessee. She was curious about what garden plants to grow and when it was best to plant them.

The best resource I can provide her or anyone else of the University Extension office and Master Gardener group nearest to where you live.

Here is a map of all the Master Gardner Programs in the USA. http://www.ahs.org/master_gardeners/
If you are looking for the Extension Offices in the USA try this link. http://www.csrees.usda.gov/Extension/index.html

For our reader though I took the opportunity to put the following resource together for her. If you live in the Tennessee area this may help you as well:

First of all a wonderful resource in any state is the univeristy extension office. They generally have a Master Gardeners program that can provide you oodles of great information. The best one in Tennessee is http://mastergardener.tennessee.edu/. One of the resources I saw on their website was http://www.utextension.utk.edu/publications/spfiles/SP291-D.pdf this resource provides a high overview of care for gardens in Tennessee.

As far as what to plant/when here is a great guide to starting your plants and then transplanting into the garden http://www.utextension.utk.edu/publications/pbfiles/PB901.pdf . This resource http://www.utextension.utk.edu/publications/spfiles/SP291-M.pdf tells you what plants to grow next to one another so that you resist disease and cross polinate. It is a great resource and should make the crip more plentiful as polination is hard to achieve, especially if you live in a high population area where bees are not very plentiful.

If you like homemade salsa this was a fun resource http://www.utextension.utk.edu/publications/wfiles/W039.pdf.

If you like Asian foods this is a great garden resource http://www.utextension.utk.edu/publications/wfiles/W037.pdf.

Overall visit http://www.utextension.utk.edu/publications/homeGarden/default.asp#gardening and use the resources here to help you create the best garden that you possibly can.

I hope these resources help you, if you need anything else feel free to contact me.

Living Provident

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