Sharing of the Green
Here for your reference are my list of garden-related links with an emphasis, of course, on my Northern CA climate:
You Grow Girl – nifty tips and journals from female gardeners
Container Vegetable Gardening – from Clemson Univ Extension, useful tips on selecting containers, soils, and varieties for vegetables grown in pots.
Trees of Antiquity – Heirloom Fruit Trees for your home; apple varieties you’ve never heard of, plus fruit like quince, plumcots, pawpaws.
Four Winds Growers – if you want dwarf citrus, start here.
SFGate.com’s Green Gardener column archives
Nichols Garden Nursery – herbs and rare seeds
Master Gardeners of California
Great Plant Picks – “a plant awards program designed to help the home gardener identify unbeatable plants for their Pacific Northwest garden.”
California Rare Fruit Growers – “the largest amateur fruit-growing organization in the world.”
Baldo Villegas’ Bugs and Roses page – the many photos of common rose ailments have been very helpful to my novice rose tending.
Plus: a list of garden weblogs from Cold Climate Gardening.