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	Saint John�s Community Garden Society Home Presentation Notes Gardening Links Mission & Charter Virtual Garden Tours Projects Handy Recipes Plant Exchange & Sales Ask A Gardener		Gardening Links Seed and/or Plant Companies Before you order, check out this website where seed and plant companies are rated by customers. It can save you a lot of time and trouble!! http://gardenwatchdog.com/ Here are links for several seed and plant companies with recommendations from our members, if available. Pinetree Garden Seed Fedco Seeds is a coop garden supplier. They have many interesting varieties not found elsewhere. Gurney's Seed Co. J.W. Jung Seed Co. Seed Savers Exchange is a good source for heirloom and organic seeds. Veseys Whatcom Seed Co. White Flower Farm Shady Acres Herb Farm Sunshine Farm & Gardens is a 60 acre Botanical Garden and Arboretum in the mountains of Greenbrier County WV. They grow and sell over 10,000 different kinds of plants. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds is a company specializing in heirloom seeds and has a great selection of items you can't find elsewhere. Nature Hills Nursery, Inc. offers trees, shrubs, perennials, fruit trees, rose bushes, and much more as well as gardening reference resources. Prairie Moon Nursery is a Minnesota nursery specializing in prairie plants and seeds. Plant Searches Not sure that the plant you want to try is going to fit your conditions? Want to know if a plant is hardy to our zone? Want to find a list of things that will grow in the shade? Then this is the link for you! University of Minnesota Plant Select Database Garden Info Sites Find your "USDA" zone For USA, Canada, and Europe: http://www.icangarden.com/zone.cfm Questions about flowers and bouquets? Check with the Society of American Florists! www.aboutflowers.com Here's a site where you can find plants to trade, a plant database, Latin name lookup and much more. http://davesgarden.com/ Garden information articles: http://www.helpfulgardener.com/ Minnesota Extension Service--a site offering all kinds of info about just about anything gardening related from plant searches to ask a Master Gardener. Minnesota Extension Service Homepage A site from the Minnesota Extension Service with information about composting. http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/DG3296.html A link to the popular TV show site: http://www.mrs.umn.edu/pyg/ A link to a site with many different kinds of information from plant searches with photos, searches for various gardening related companies, to gardening chat and plant exchanges. http://www.gardenweb.com/ Home Gardening by ExploreCornell This site by Cornell University provides �ecologically sound, science-based practices� for gardening and lawn care. The site is broken into three categories, flowers, vegetables, and lawn care. It features illustrated growing guides for specific flowers and vegetables, a tutorial on designing flower gardens, lawn care tips and techniques, and fact sheets on gardening techniques, avoiding pests and diseases, and lawns. http://www.explore.cornell.edu/scene.cfm?scene=home%20gardening GardenMinnesota.com �For beautiful plants and professional landscaping,� GardenMinnesota.com is provided as a service to consumers by members of the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association (MNLA). MNLA was founded in 1925 and is Minnesota�s largest horticultural trade association with 1,500 firms as members. MNLA is dedicated to providing continuing education for its members and consumers and responsibly improving and maintaining our environment. http://www.mnlandscape.org Birding.com�Where to Bird-Minnesota Birding.com is an all-inclusive site for information on every aspect of birds and birding imaginable. The site can be broken down into specific birding information for all fifty states plus Asia, South and Central America, Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. For this article, however, we will focus just on the birding information available for the state of Minnesota. Birding.com for Minnesota contains the top birding locations in the state as well as a USGS Minnesota Bird Checklist. Phone numbers are listed for rare bird alerts to be called in throughout the state, and transcripts of the calls are available too. http://www.birding.com/wheretobird/Minnesota.asp Invasive Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) Removal information: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/terrestrialplants/woody/buckthorn/index.html http://www.extension.umn.edu/projects/yardandgarden/ygbriefs/h464buckthorncontrol.html Related Garden Products Local compost company offering compost for sale http://www.composter.com/topsoils/#C Compost can be purchased at their site for $29.99 per cubic yard (it takes about 1 1/2 cubic yards for a pickup load). They sell smaller amounts under the name of Soil Essentials via outlet centers like Raetz and Thomsen. Visit the website for lots of information. Compost can also be purchased from Forest Mushrooms Inc. ($5.00 for 50 bags). Check out their site for more info. http://www.forestmushrooms.com/web%20Folder/market.html http://www.extension.umn.edu/topics.html Info about River Glen Gardens: http://www.mspmag.com/feature.asp?featureid=2339
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