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REsources
Garden Maintenance Tips
Deadheading – A Quick Guide
Fall Lawn Maintenance
Prepare Your Garden For Winter
Take Care of Your Evergreens
Spring Clean Up Tips
Ideas
Get your Garden Ready to Party
Creating Beautiful Containers
Composting (Coming Soon)
Vegetable gardening
The Bountiful Container, by McGee & Stuckey
Organic Kitchen Gardening, by Barbara Segall
Organic Gardening Magazine
Sustainable
RAIN BARRELS
Install a Rain Barrel
RAISED BEDS
Scenery Solutions
www.scenery-solutions.com
Gardener’s Supply Company
www.gardeners.com;
(Search “grow bed”)
Naturalyards Raised Garden Bed
www.naturalyards.com
Durable Plastic Design
www.orcaboard.com
Earth Box
www.earthbox.com
RAIN GARDENS (coming soon)
HARVESTING WATER (coming soon)
Additional Information
MODE
Watering Instructions
The
Morton Arboretum – Horticultural Care
Chicago
Botanic Garden – Monthly Garden Checklists
Gardens to Visit
The High Line – New York City
Websites
Chicago Botanic Garden
The
Morton Arboretum
Garfield
Park Conservatory
Chicago
Wilderness
Environment
Illinois
The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Books
Last Child in the Woods, by
Richard Louv
Animal,
Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver
Bringing Nature Home – How Native Plants
Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens, by Douglas
W. Tallamy
Organic Manifesto – How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World and Keep Us Safe by Maria Rodale
Asphalt to Ecosystems – Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation by Sharon Gamson Danks
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