Links from The Garden Gate
      Newsletter Links

Links from the US Forrest Service about trees and tree culture.
      USFS Tree Links

Links to public gardens in the Southwest.

NEW MEXICO
    Rio Grande Botanic Garden   A conservatory with year-round blooms, desert species, and aromatic Mediterranian plants; walled gardens with herbs and roses.
ARIZONA
    The Arboretum at Flagstaff:   Displaying plants native to the high desert of the Colorado Plateau (7,150 feet.)   [Plant links page - link on the database page, plant database (temp. inoperative but link to "plant links" OK).]
COLORADO
    Denver Botanic Garden:   A Japanese garden, a plains garden, a shade garden, a cottage garden, and a rock garden.
    Hudson Gardens:   Rose gardens, prairie grass and wildflower meadow, perennial gardens, conifer groves, and a water garden.
    Western Colorado Botanic Garden:   Native plant garden, rose garden and a dahlia garden.   [Plant links page - link on navagation bar at top of home page.]

Links from the Water Conservation Garden brochure

NMSU Xeriscape links

NMSU's Ag center in Farmington

Xeriscape Council of New Mexico

www.xeriscapenm.com   www.xeriscapenm.com/xeriscaping_links (includes links to more plant databases.)

New Mexico State Engineer Office

www.seo.state.nm.us

City of Albuquerque Xeriscape

www.cabq.gov/waterconservation/xeric.html

High Country Xeriscape Council of Arizona

www.xeriscapeaz.org

Xeriscape Colorado, Inc.

xeriscape.org
Remember - It is illegal, in Colorado, to divert water for personal use, it is punishable by law (i.e. roof run off or ground water surface flow). It belongs to the state. Therefore the extra water they get as rain doesn't always get used as effectively as it can be here in New Mexico.

Colorado Springs Utilities Xeriscape Demonstration Garden

www.csu.org/environment/conservation/xeriscape

H₂Ouse.com

California Water use program. (Regional databases with pictures!)

Weed ID Database

NMSU's weed identification database, a searchable database.

USDA PLANT DATABASE AND INFO

Link to federal invasive weed list, not many of these are in New Mexico, mostly they are from moist environments.

USDA database of 7000 plants

On the USDA alternative agriculture links page. I find this one easier to use than the one directly above.

variouis plant databases

A list of links to various plant databases

Poisonous plant database

A poisonous plant database on the ArborDay website.

Another poisonous plant database

Poisonous plant database from Cornell University

A flowering plant database

Courtesy of Ballfloraplants and McLain Greenhouses
To find some information about culturing flowering plants: click on 'plant search' under 'plant information', then click on 'type of plant' under 'plant search', then 'select from the droplist below a product by class' (a sublist may be presented, choose one of these too), Then at the bottom of the new page which outlilnes the plant attributes, click on "Ball FloraPlant culture guide" under 'series culture'. It is sketchy but gives some information that may be useful to you for some of the plants you might have growing in your garden.

New Mexico Weather

New Mexico Weather data, present and historic.
There are links to both extension plant sciences and to plant clinics.

Western Region weather (NOAA)

Western Region map link for various locations including Albuquerque, NM.

NOAA

National Weather Service web site.

Planting Zone Map

USDA planting zone map with lists of plants which will grow there. The site starts out with a US map and when your state is clicked it takes you to a regional map.... Here's another one. The usual national USDA planting zones map.

Heat accumulation data.

American Horticulteral Society heat zone map.

CoCoRaHS Weather Links

Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow Network weather links.

Label and MSDS info.

Label information and Materiels Safety and Data Sheet information (more information about pesticides than you ever wanted to know).

EPA

Environmental Protection Agency.

N Mex product registration

New Mexico registration information for pesticides.

lists of pests

She said this was a 'back door' to the website that most people pay for. You will come up with a list of pests (alphabetical) use the search for on this page function of the browser to find the pest you are looking for.
I am having trouble using this site, if anyone figures out a good way to look things up on this one, drop me an .e-mail and I will publish your method of getting to the data.

www.batcon.org

Small Economy Bat House Plans.

Scott�s Bat House Page

More Small Economy Bat House Plans.

horsefacts.org

Interesting tidbits about horses.

The Rio Grande Community Farm

I put this in because I saw a piece on chanel 7 about the Rio Grande Community Farm and thought it was a good idea and so you can check it out if you like.

The American Horticultural Society

 

GMO  Information

I have recently become concerned about the prevalance of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) being planted by our agribusiness companies.    To inform the public I have put a whole page of links about the subject which will be accessed by clicking the above link.  

Steve Solomon's _Gardening without irrigation: or not much anyway_.

How to garden without any irrigation if you use the correct varieties of vegetables, enough room between individual plants, and if you eliminate _all_ competition in the extended planting area.

Agriculture books library.

More Ag., and other, books, full text, online, including some more of Steve Solomoman's books.

CoCoRaHS Weather Links

Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow Network weather links.

National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service. Bunches of good info.! Full text, online agricultural publications.

Four Sister's Planting in the South West. This link takes you to a page with a lot of information about companion planting. If you scroll down one page there is a table of contents which lists the topics, included is (the last link) the appendix: Ancient Companions. This section, as far as I am concerned is the most important for those of us in the dry South West. It explains three versions of the very old concept of the Three Sister's planting of Corn, Beans, and Squash. Two of these regularly included sunflowers on the North side, and one stated explicitly that they mixed and matched all the various cucurbits in the "squash" part of their plantings (summer and winter squash, cucumbers, and mellons). ATTRA stands for Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas - NCAT = National Center for Appropriate Technology.

Invaders

Non-native organisms invading various localities on planet earth. (Delete one term at a time at the end of the address on your computer screen [between the slashes]in the address box at the top) and discover more!

Seeds

Follow the links to find a program titled "The Seedy Side of Plants". A fantastic essay on different types of seeds with wildly differeing properties.

Seed Savers Exchange

An organization consisting of about 1000 active listed growers who grow heirloom (non hybrid) seed which has been grown by one family or by one community for decades, or sometimes for centuries.         Read a short description.

United Nations

Index of United Nations Site. Look under A for Agricultural information - and P for Plant information plus much, much more.

Crop Research

Index to Economic and Social Development plant resources of the UN. This site contains a number of links which are of relevance to gardeners interested in plant resources. (Click on the first link 'ICRISTAT' > cool stuff   > crops gallery and recipes. All neat stuff.)

Rural Advancement Foundation International

"Dedicated to the conservation and sustainable improvement of agricultural biodiversity."

South West Yard and Garden

South West Gardens.

Sustainable Horticulture

University of California, Davis.

Sustainable Horticulture

University of New Hampshire.

New Crop Resource

Purdue University, sustainable horticulture.

Weed ID Database

NMSU's weed identification database, a searchable database.

New Mexico Weather

New Mexico Weather data, present and historic.
There are links to both extension plant sciences and to plant clinics.

University of Arizona's Master Gardener Manual.

Information on environmentally responsible gardening and landscaping for the high desert.

Global Stewardship Initiative.

Organic Seed sources and more, including one from a center which sells seeds of varieties grown by Thomas Jefferson himself.

New Mexico State University cooperative extension serivce.

Our Cooperative Extension Service offers resources in gardening, family development, agricultural production, and more.

list of alternative crops and enterprises for small farms (USDA)

From the National Agricultural Library's Alternative Farming Systems Information Center. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page beyond "The List" and there are 65 links for Extension services, land grant universities and "Other resources for agrcultural alternatives".

alternative crops and plants (USDA)

This page contains links for other websites from around the country for alternative uses of usual crops, alternative crops, both plant and animal including nutritional, medicinal, and etc., some are from old ethnobiology resources. From the National Agricultural Library's Alternative Farming Systems Information Center. There is a wide variety of information available. One site has lists of publications for sale AND available online. Missouri Alternatives Center (second link in this list) has a newsletter one can subscribe to with ideas galore coming to you twice a month. (I have a subscription to this newsletter. Some of the information is useful only if you live in Missouri (local workshops, etc.) And, some is useful anywhere since it talks about different ways of farming: different crops, or operations.) If you subscribe, you get to a page with more resources of interest; I have not figured out how to get there any other way yet. If you do, let me know - LPE.

National Wildlife Service.

Bird houses - specific and generic.

NOAA

National Weather Service web site.

Western Region weather (NOAA)

Western Region map link for various locations including Albuquerque, NM.

Planting Zone Map

USDA planting zone map with lists of plants which will grow there. The site starts out with a US map and when your state is clicked it takes you to a regional map.... Here's another one.

USDA National Agricultural Library Publications - FULLTEXT - ONLINE

If you go to any particular publication and look at the discription, at the end of the discription is a link to purchase the publication, but many, if not most, also have a link to view them fultext online in either HTML or PDF. When you get to a particular page, if there is a list of publications - along the left side of the page (and sometimes on the right too) is a list of other topics. There is often a link right in with the discripton of the pub. on the page listing a lot of pubs., and also, if you click on the title of the pub. you will get a more detailed discription and there is a link on this page too. I find that the HTML link is easier to navigate and browse than the PDF, unless you particularly like the PDF format. Read some ag. books for free. Since they are published by the US Government, there is no copyright. They are public domain and can be freely copied by you or anyone. Have fun with this.

USDA PLANT DATABASE AND INFO

Link to federal invasive weed list, not many of these are in New Mexico, mostly they are from moist environments.

Small Farm Resources

National Resources Conservation Services | Rural Information Center | New Mexico Rural Development

Organic Agriculture Links (USDA)

Organic (Alternative) Agriculture links (a bunch) provided on the United States Department of Agriculture site. There are many and varied links, check them out. An astounding array of information. I haven't had time to look at all of these links, but I intend to - maybe for my vacation?!? For instance, click the link to the Holistic Agriculture Library - full text of heirloom farming / gardening books. Other sites are linked also, with other full text documents available on line. There are some very interesting links under the 'Plant' heading including a database of 7000 plants searchable on their site.

NM Department of fish and game

NM Department of fish and game.

http://www.backyardchickens.com/

All things chicken. Because some of us do have chickens, and they come with such good fertilizer. Much online information, an active forum covering all topics chicken, links, plans, etc., etc....

http://davesgarden.com/

All things gardening. Suggested by Nancy Erickson. Thanks Nancy.

gardenweb.com

This is a new link, check it out. There are many links on the home page to other links, there is also a plant database, try it for yourself and see.

GreenPrints

"'The Weeder's Digest' - shares the human side: the joy, the humor, the frustrations, and the heart in fine prose and fine art." They offer a, "special bonus! FREE when you subscribe."

The Farmer's Almanac
http://www.farmersalmanac.com/gardening/gardening.html

Because, "after all, nearly everybody is a farmer at heart."
Weather, gardening, and general information. They will not allow us to link to their site. I am including it so you can copy and paste the URL to the locaton field at the top of your screen. There is a lot of interesting content non-the-less.

Tuscon Organic Gardeners Assn.

Organic Seed sources and more, including one from a center which sells seeds of varieties grown by Thomas Jefferson himself.

Rochester Gardening

Gardening information from the Rochester New York Gardening Club. Three index pages with brief descriptions of linked categories containing 2000 links on 35 pages. Of interest to all.

New Mexico Apples info.

Rebecca's Garden.

This is a fun website. I can't seem to find the same thing twice. If you see something you like, jot it down or print it out.