Composting Resources and Links

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Here are a few links to websites and resources to learn more about composting.

Composting Links

Compost Guide – A complete guide to composting.

Worm Composting Guide – Learn how to vermicompost with a worm bin.

American Recycler Newspaper – American Recycler is a monthly newspaper mailed within the U.S. and Canada to over 35,000 readers about valuable resource for businesses interested in salvage, waste and recycling.

Cathy’s Crawly Composters – An environmentally driven vermicomposting business supplying worms, worm composters, worm castings, instructions, and workshops.

Improve Your Garden Soil – How to get the best from your garden, by starting with your garden’s soil.

Compostable Goods – Offers biodegradable and compostable products made from wood, organic cotton, hemp, wool, bioplastics, and other plant-based materials, aiming towards zero waste.

Gardening Links

Perry’s Perennial Pages – Dr. Leonard Perry, Extension Professor, has tons of helpful information on perennials.

Garden Simply – Teaching sustainable organic gardening practices, organic pest control, community gardening information, and good ways to feed ourselves and our children healthfully.

PepperJoe – “Pepper Joe’s” specializing in EVERYTHING for the Chilehead including Growing, Harvesting, Cooking, Preserving and Enjoying those Wonderful Hot Peppers.

Garlic Barrier –  A strong liquid garlic concentrate, dilutes in water and is sprayed on farm and garden plants to keep insects off. Odorless in minutes. Listed for organic farms by OMRI and CCOF. No chemicals, non-toxic.

The Gardeners Resource – Everything for the gardener! Resources, information, directories, tools, calculators, contests, articles, photos, videos, citizen science, web specials and more.

Garden Guides – We strive to meet all your gardening needs through a broad selection of specifically-themed gardening websites. Please visit our homepage to find links to all the helpful gardening and greenhouse websites we currently manage. Our sincerest hope is to be your number one online resource for any and all greenhouse and gardening questions.

Gardening For All Seasons – Guide to perfect gardening with articles and tips for seasoned and novice gardeners from planning to composting, your local weather, special features, house plants and Monthly gardening calendar. Recipes.

Avant-Gardening: Creative Organic Gardening - “YOU CAN GROW!” using sustainable organic gardening as a medium for creative expression and spiritual growth. Extensive sustainable organic gardening information, workshops, monthly newsletter, virtual tours, links/resources, and more!

Gardening Advice and Information A great gardening advice and information site which includes an informative pruning guide – oh, and an on-line Gardening Jigsaw!

Information and Tips on Gardening – Gardening basics to get any gardener off to a good start, including evaluating a site, selecting healthy plants and analyzing the soil. Grow the best vegetable garden you can with ideas on vegetable varieties increasing the harvest from your vegetable garden and organic pest control.

Garden Design Service – Garden design service online including free, ready-made and bespoke packages using 3D software.

Landsape design software for home gardening 3D Garden Composer will help you create and maintain your dream garden in any season.

Gardening Know How – The Answer to Your Gardening Question – Informative articles about gardening and all of the things you can do in your garden.

Nickys Seeds and Garden Games – Purveyor of quality seeds worldwide of all your favourite, rare and unusual seeds, Garden Sundries and Garden Games.

Lazy S’S Farm Nursery – A Mail Order Nursery featuring over 2400 varieties of Perennials, Trees and Shrubs. Shipping to the US.  We have one of largest selections of plants on the Internet with thousands of plant pictures online.  Owned and operated by the same Virginia family for 39 years.

Thunder Ridge Gardens – Vegetable seeds, plants and tips.

Pond Supply from Natural Solutions Etc - Garden pond supply including organic Barley Straw Bundles for pond algae.

Other Useful Links

The Little Green People Show – Hosted by two of Chicago’s most respected environmental voices–Laurene von Klan and Jill Riddell of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum–each episode answers listener questions, offers expert advice, and delivers commentary on all the opportunities and challenges faced by the average urban dweller trying to go green.

My Zero Waste – A family of four in the UK challenging themselves to create Zero Waste.

American Braintrust – Network for American thoughts.

Mr. Rosie’s Homework Help - This page provides useful internet resources which relate to the units of work being studied in class.

Slightly Creaky – Providing information, links,  helpful suggestions, articles,  & community message boards to make life just a bit easier.

EcoIQ Urban Greening – EcoIQ provides urban greening related media products and services, including video stock footage, a speakers bureau, books and documentary videos, online publications, a sustainability portal, and much more.

Brummet’s Conscious Discussions - Inspiring hope in individuals, helping them realize the value of their efforts and encouraging them to become more positive, proactive in life.

Pet Portraits by Betty – Pet portrait paintings of pets and equine done from photos. Pencil and Charcoal sketches. Plaques, brushes, signs, and memorial stones with your pet’s or equine’s own portrait painted on it.

Vegetable Gardening Made Easier – Learn how to start and sustain a vegetable garden in your back yard.

Vegetable Gardening Guide – Gardening is a great way to get exercise and it also provides satisfaction when you see the vegetables produced in your garden. The guide provides information to assist in creating your vegetable garden.

Green Dragon Bonsai – Mail order suppliers of Bonsai trees, bonsai pots, bonsai tools, and loads more Bonsai goodies. Free advice and articles for all levels. Green Dragon Bonsai are based in Prestatyn, North Wales.

The Gardener’s Escape – View our picture gallery and read our travel reviews of different botanical gardens around the world. We also have free garden design plans and a free newsletter.

Atomic Grow – Putting Mother Nature in Charge

Chris’ Topiary Nursery – Specializing in quality handcrafted topiary frames, frames stuffed w/ moss, and Shrub-filled topiary.

Lawn Mowers

Gardennauta

Stephanie McKay

Idealist Cafe

Frugal Country Mom

Public Library of Westland

Conrad Anker

Garden Stone Supply – Whether it’s to honor a loved one or to create a more dynamic landscape, Garden Stone Supply carries a wide variety of fake rocks and boulders to enhance any yard or garden.

Sun Dial Supply – We carry an extensive selection of sundials and sundial pedestals to add that missing touch to any garden.

Growing Beans – This site offers a large collection of information on all you need to know about growing beans.

Standard Trees – Suppliers of Mature Pine Conifers and container grown Broadleaves.  Instant Trees for Garden, Landscape and Screening.

The Mulch – We bring experts and everyday gardeners together in a new unbiased way. Be sure to take advantage of our new customized plant care sharing reminders!

Growing and Using herbs – Use our Herb directory to find information on growing and using herbs.

Garden Girl – A unique and contemporary garden based company mixing striking planters, troughs, vintage garden tools together with plants, creative ideas and a well established garden care business based in Maybole, Ayrshire.

Art 2 Notice – Art, Modern to Traditional acrylic painting and custom Fine Art by Barbarajean.

Specialist Growers of Agapanthus

Plants – Jackson’s Nurseries Online Garden Centre offers a huge range of plants and gardening items online at very competitive prices for delivery to anywhere in the UK.

Lewis Bamboo – Bamboo Nursery specializing in cold hardy bamboo to add tropical beauty to your landscape, provide privacy screens and put ornamental plants in your gardens.

Making Bio Diesel – Making biodiesel books specializes in hard to find information relating to biofuels and emerging technologies.

VermiSell Country Store -On line country store selling plants, composters, wellies, worms, bird food and much more.