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    • About >
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      • News articles
    • Volunteer Opportunities
    • Strategic Plan
  • Programs & Services
    • Ag Stewardship >
      • Agriculture Resources
    • Drainage
    • Financial Assistance/Cost Share Programs >
      • Invasives Cost Share
      • Landscape Callery Pear Removal Grants
    • Invasive Species >
      • Invasive Trade In Program
      • Landscape Callery Pear Removal Grants
      • Hamilton County Invasives Partnership
    • Map Resources
    • Spring Native Plant Kit Sale
    • Fall Native Sale
    • Rain Barrel Info & Sales
    • Rule 5 Submission
    • Soil Is Alive: Soil Health Trailer
    • Soil Maps & Surveys
    • Soil Testing
    • Stony Creek Feasibility Study
    • Photo Contest
    • Report a Polluter
    • Tool Loan Program
    • Video Resources
    • Water Resources >
      • Well Capping
      • Well Water Testing
  • Urban Conservation
    • Backyard Conservation
    • Landscape with natives
    • Urban Agriculture >
      • Micro-Irrigation
      • Donate Your Vegetables
      • Garden Resources
    • Creating and Maintaining a Prairie
    • Restoring HOA Native Landscapes
    • Stormwater Landscape Maintenance Training
    • Rain Garden Info
    • Seed pack
    • Tree Info
    • Where to buy native plants & seed
  • Events
    • Workshops & Events
    • Rain on Main
    • Pay Dirt Hamilton County
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Resources for Urban Gardeners and Farmers

Conservation Practices for the Garden

Cover Crops
  • Intro to Cover Crops for Urban Gardens (HCSWCD)
  • Cover Crop Selection Tool Based on Land Goals (Midwest Cover Crops Council)
  • Cover Crops and Soil Health - MCSWCD Presentation Slides (2017-07-25 Version)
  • Marion County SWCD - Cover Crop Mixes and Rotations
  • Cover Crop Schedule for Indiana (HCSWCD)
  • Overseeding Oats and Crimson Clover as a Cover Crop in a Vegetable Garden (HCSWCD)
  • Overseeding Oats as a Cover Crop in a Vegetable Garden (HCSWCD)

Other
  • ​Best Practices for Health in the Garden (HCSWCD)
  • Soil Management in Home Gardens (Penn State)
  • Composting Basics (Mother Hubbard's Cupboard)
  • Increasing Winter Soil Temperatures: How Gardeners Can Respond (HCSWCD)
  • NRCS Carbon Nitrogen
  • 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)

​Updated: 7/24/2024

Material Resources: Top Soil and Compost Resources
  • Topsoil and Compost Sources and Costs within Hamilton County (HCSWCD)

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​
  • Blackberry, Raspberry, Grape, and Blueberry Care Instructions (Arbor Day Foundation)

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
  • Strawberry Diseases (The Ohio State University)
  • Managing Pests in Home Fruit Plantings (Purdue Extension, ID-146-W)
  • Managing Pests with Healthy Soil (SARE)
  • Managing Tomato Hornworms
  • Purdue Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory
  • Rhubarb Diseases (Rhubarb-Central)
  • White Flies
  • Leaf Spot (Planet Natural Research Center)
  • Leaf Spot on Tomato (Univ. of Minnesota Extension)

Raised Beds
  • Hugelkultur raised beds
  • Raised Beds, Components of (HCSWCD)
  • Raised Beds, Introduction to (HCSWCD)
  • Raised Beds, Wall Assembly and Fasteners for (HCSWCD)
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Container Gardening
  • Container Garden Basics for Indoors and Outdoors (HCSWCD - Updated 5/3/2019)
  • Growing Potatoes in Containers (Almanac)

Other
  • A Soil Healthy Lawn to Garden Method (HCSWCD) 
  • Certified Arborists
  • National Pesticide Information Center 
  • Periodical Cicadas - Brood X 

Updated: 7/24/2024

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