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Informational Resources for Pennsylvania Gardeners
Planted January 1, 2000
Last tended to on October 19, 2024
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- Penn State Master Gardener Program
- Home & Garden Resources
- “Vegetable Gardening: Recommendations for Home Gardeners in Pennsylvania” (PDF)
- “Vegetable Planting and Transplanting Guide” (PDF)
“Planning a Vegetable Garden” (PDF)
Recommended Books:
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“Mid-Atlantic Fruit & Vegetable Gardening: Plant, Grow, and Harvest the Best Edibles - Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington D.C.,” by Katie Elzer-Peters. This book 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 Delaware Valley, in the Beltway, or anywhere else in the Mid-Atlantic 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.
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“Mid-Atlantic Gardener’s Handbook: Your Complete Guide: Select, Plan, Plant, Maintain, Problem-Solve - Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington D.C.,” by Katie Elzer-Peters. The book includes plant selection – ornamental landscape and edible plants – and “when-to” gardening maintenance information. Planting and growing information for edibles is also included, along with plant selections for the most common plant categories.
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“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.
Organizations:
- Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Native Plant Society
- Pennsylvania Gourd Society
- The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Places to Visit:
- Awbury Arboretum Garden – The Francis Cope House, 1 Awbury Road, Philadelphia, PA 19138-1505
- Brandywine Conservancy Wildflower and Native Plant Gardens – U.S. Route 1, Chadds Ford, PA 19317
- Hershey Gardens – 170 Hotel Road, Hershey, PA 17033
- Historic Bartram’s Garden – 54th St. and Lindbergh Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19143
- Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens – One Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
- Scott Arboretum Garden – Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swathmore, PA 19081-8025
- Shofu-So Japanese Garden – Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, PA
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