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![]() ![]() Growing a great garden involves juggling the needs of dozens of different plants. ![]() Garden Planner - Design Your Best Garden Ever With so much information at your fingertips, you have a good excuse to stay inside on the hottest of our Dog Days – yet still be legitimately working on your garden.Return to the homepage. ![]() We are continuing to build on it, adding new information weekly. This is a comprehensive website on sustainable living with information on composting, organic gardening and food preservation And last but not least, our recently re-designed website. It provides links to state-sponsored programs for creating “backyard habitats.” For all things organic, check out Mother Earth News. It has information on our native plants – and the native environment. The Department of Natural Resources’ webpage is a great Maryland resource. The Maryland Plant Society’s web page is chock full of resources, including calendar of events, field trips and a news feed. It identifies the different regions throughout the state and lists categories of plants found in those regions. Maryland Native Plants is a good place to start. There are several terrific sites to help identify native plants. The challenge is sifting through them to find dependable and accurate information, specific to our region. If not, there are thousands of websites for gardening, landscaping and horticulture. The app is free at Apple’s App Store and Google Play.Īpps are a great tool…IF you have a smart phone. There are a few videos with planting instructions. A checklist tells you what actions to take throughout the year. Just pick a vegetable, herb or flower to add to your garden and the app tells you if you should start growing your seed indoors or directly in the garden. If you’re schedule oriented, you’ll like Garden Time Planner. Because the app tags your location, the expert will tell you additional details based on where you live. Take a picture of the item you need help with, email it to the Garden Compass team and an expert will answer your question. The coolest part of the app has a plant or pest identifier. Garden Compass is good for finding essential data, like what season a plant blooms and how much light it needs. In addition to the plant description, users receive updates of when to plant or transplant young growth to larger containers or the ground. The free app contains a great database of a wide range of plants that can be grown from seed. Users can also access the Gardening news feed.įor those who garden from seed, check out Burpee’s Garden Planner. The app allows the user to create their own flashcards and glossary, send quizzes to friends and post scores for a global ranking. It teaches more than 675 gardening and horticulture terms by quiz, dictionary, & flashcards. The Master Gardener Pocket Guide is a classroom for your phone. There’s a separate section on pests with about 20 common garden threats, such as aphids, and advice on how to deal with them. There are about 750 plant species in the app’s database, listed by both common and botanical names, with description, care information and what kind of soil, climate, planting and bloom time. Garden Lite is a free app that’s great for quick reference. Or click through a list of characteristics (leaf shape, flower color, plant’s height) to make the flower or plant identification. Snap a plant’s photo with Google Goggles or take a picture of a tree’s leaf against a white background and submit it instantly for analysis. Leafsnap, NatureGate and iPflanzen are all electronic field guides. Most are available for both IOS and Android. Here is a just a sampling of what’s out there. Many useful guides to the world around you, but our favorites are garden-centric: Apps that identify the big tree on the corner or the flower in your neighbor’s garden, how to grow that big tree and what plant pairs nicely with your neighbor’s blooms. Another locates the nearest coffee house. Another shops for the best price on brand name toilet paper. There is one that identifies constellations. They say there’s app for anything, and I tend to believe it. ![]()
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