Resources for Urban Gardeners and Farmers
Conservation Practices for the Garden
Cover Crops
Other
Cover Crops
- Intro to Cover Crops for Urban Gardens (HCSWCD)
- Cover Crops and Soil Health - MCSWCD Presentation Slides (2017-07-25 Version)
- Marion County SWCD - Cover Crop Mixes and Rotations
Other
- Basic No-Till Garden Recipe (NRCS, Sheila O'Reilly)
- Best Practices for Health in the Garden (HCSWCD)
- Composting Basics (Mother Hubbard's Cupboard)
- Increasing Winter Soil Temperatures: How Gardeners Can Respond (HCSWCD)
- NRCS Carbon Nitrogen
- Organic Material that Can Be Used to Build a No-Till Garden (NRCS, Sheila O'Reilly)
- Plant rotation in the Garden Based on Plant Families (PennState Extension) Building Soil Organic Matter (SOM)
- Soil Health Resources
- Winter Preparation: Put your garden to bed! (HCSWCD)
Material Resources: Top Soil and Compost Resources
Weed Management
Fruit and Vegetable Growing
Fruit and Vegetable Care
Pest and Disease
Raised Beds
Container Gardening
Other
Updated: 7/9/2018
Weed Management
- Identifying Seedlings (so that you don't pull them!) (HCSWCD)
- Introduction to Weed Management (HCSWCD)
- Deepening Our Appreciation of Poison Ivy, Identifying, and Eliminating (HCSWCD)
- Indicator Weeds and Weed Management (PowerPoint Presentation - HCSWCD - Updated 5/3/2017)
- Likely Indicator Weeds for Gardens of Hamilton County, IN (PDF - HCSWCD - Edition 1, Updated 5/3/2017)
Fruit and Vegetable Growing
- Beginners Guide to Growing Strawberries in Your Garden (HCSWCD)
- Containing Mint (HCSWCD)
- Cool Season Vegetables for Central Indiana (HCSWCD)
- Grow Potatoes in a Bucket (The Great Grub Club)
- Growing Indiana Vegetables in the Shade (HCSWCD)
- Indiana: Vegetable Planting Calendar (Urban Farmer)
- Rhubarb, Everything you ever wanted to know (Rhubarb-Central)
- Vegetables for Alkaline Soils (HCSWCD)
- Vegetable Garden Quality, Yield, and Savings comparisons
Fruit and Vegetable Care
- Peach Care (National Gardening Association)
- Misshapen (Deformed) Cucumbers (HCSWCD)
Pest and Disease
- About Insecticidal Soaps Link 1 and Link 2
- Brown Rot (caused by Monilinia fructicola) on Stone Fruits (Purdue Extension)
- Cytospora Canker of Stone Fruits - Care, planning, and removal (Penn State)
- Cytospora Canker (Fort Collins Tree Care)
- Identifying Caterpillars Eating Your Tomatoes
- Integrated Management of Strawberry Diseases (The Ohio State University)
- Managing Pests in Home Fruit Plantings (Purdue Extension, ID-146-W)
- Managing Pests with Healthy Soil (SARE)
- Organic Control of Tomato Hornworms
- Purdue Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory
- Rhubarb Diseases (Rhubarb-Central)
- White Flies
- Leaf Spot (Planet Natural Research Center)
- Leaf Spot (University of Minnesota Extension)
Raised Beds
- Hugelkultur, About
- Raised Bed Ideas (Notey.com)
- Raised Beds, Components of (HCSWCD)
- Raised Beds, Introduction to (HCSWCD)
- Raised Beds, Wall Assembly and Fasteners for (HCSWCD)
Container Gardening
- Container Garden Basics for Indoors and Outdoors (HCSWCD - Updated 5/22/27)
Other
- A Soil Healthy Lawn to Garden Method (HCSWCD)
- Certified Arborists
- National Pesticide Information Center
Updated: 7/9/2018