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Informational Resources for Mississippi Gardeners

Planted January 1, 2000
Last tended to on October 19, 2024
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• Mississippi Frost Dates (Please Check Back)
• Mississippi State University Extension Service Home Gardening Page
  • Mississippi Vegetable Garden Planting Chart (PDF) - Has both spring and fall planting date information.
  • Grow Your Own Vegetables (PDF)
• Publications Archive

Fall / Winter Gardening in Mississippi:

• Fall Vegetable Gardening

Recommended Books:

• “Deep South Month-by-Month Gardening: What to Do Each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden All Year - Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi,” by Nellie Neal. Includes all the specifics on growing annual and perennial flowers, bulbs, grasses (both lawn and ornamental), edibles, roses, groundcovers, shrubs, trees, and vines throughout the year – including a section on water gardens. From planting, watering, and fertilizing to routine maintenance and problem-solving, it educates gardeners of all skill levels on the best practices for satisfying, rewarding results, and best of all, you’ll be reaping the benefits all year round.

• “Southern Fruit & Vegetable Gardening: Plant, Grow, and Harvest the Best Edibles - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Tennessee,” by Katie Elzer-Peters. This book is written exclusively for gardeners who want to grow food in the deep South. The author equips you with all the information you need to design your edible garden, tend the soil, maintain your plants throughout their life cycles, and—most importantly—harvest the delicious foods they produce. So whether you live in the Ozarks, in the Delta, on the Cumberland Plateau, or anywhere else in the Southern United States, you’ll discover the best fruit and vegetable plants for your garden in this beautiful step-by-step how-to guide … and they’ll be on your table before you know it.

• “Tough Plants for Southern Gardens,” by Felder Rushing. Written for novice and accomplished gardener alike, and for all gardeners who value their leisure time. They also value the appearance of their home and appreciate the benefits of well-placed landscaping; however, they do not want to devote too much time to keeping it beautiful.

• “Southern Gardener’s Handbook: Your Complete Guide: Select, Plan, Plant, Maintain, Problem-Solve - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee,” by Troy Marden. Every season in the South presents a gardening opportunity. Take advantage of all of them by choosing the perfect plants! Using the right plants makes gardening not only easier, but more fun, and helps you grow the best-looking and healthiest garden possible. The Southern Gardener’s Handbook helps experienced and expert-level gardeners pick the ideal plants to get the most pleasure from their gardens. Detailed plant profiles help you get the best bang for your buck (and work) in the garden. Helpful advice about caring for the unique needs of southern gardens, along with complete information about USDA Hardiness zones make this a resource you will not want to go without. Annuals, biennials, perennials, tropicals, bulbs, ornamental grasses, trees, shrubs, ground covers, vines, lawns and vegetables are all covered in depth. Nearly 300 at-a-glance full-color photos and plant profiles allow you to plan, create and enjoy the very best results from your garden.

• “Alabama & Mississippi Gardener’s Guide,” by Felder Rushing and Jennifer Greer. This book contains easy-to-use advice on the top landscape plant choices. It also recommends specific varieties, and provides advice on how to plant, how to grow and how to care for the best plants.

• “Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times,” by Steve Solomon (founder of the Territorial Seed Company and self-sufficiency advocate, he is currently homesteading in Tasmania). This is a more advanced book for those who are serious about raising food. In this volume, Steve explains why intensive gardening methods are not natural and therefore require great amounts of energy and effort to maintain. A lot of information regarding soil health and cover cropping is included.

• “Best of the Best from Mississippi Cookbook: Selected Recipes from Mississippi’s Favorite Cookbooks,” by Gwen McKee and Barbara Moseley. Come home to Mississippi, where hospitality and Southern cooking are a way of life. From Easy Chicken and Dumplings to the famous Mary Mahoney’s Bread Pudding, this brand-new edition features more than 400 of the most sought-after recipes from 90 of the state’s leading cookbooks. In addition to favorite recipes, the book includes contributing cookbooks listed with ordering information, as well as photographs, illustrations, and interesting facts about the state.

Organizations:

• Mississippi Master Gardeners
• The Garden Clubs of Mississippi, Inc.
• Mississippi Native Plant Society

Places to Visit:

• The Crosby Arboretum at Mississippi State University is dedicated to educating the public about their environment.
• Mississippi Ag and Forestry Museum - The museum tells the story of the state’s and region’s two most important industries. This story is centered around people—farmers, loggers, sawmill workers, agricultural aviators. The Museum was designed to preserve artifacts of the agricultural and forestry industries and to chronicle the achievements as well as the disappointments of our people as it presents a cultural and economic rather that political view of history.

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