Growing Vegetables
Home Vegetable Gardening in Washington, #EM057E
Growing Your Own—EXCELLENT resource from OSU {EM9027}
Organic Gardening – Fact sheets to help plan and care for your garden organically. Include information about beneficial insects, biochar, cover crops, organic soil amendments, pollination, and raised beds.
A Visual Guide: Tomato Foliage, Stem & Root Problems
Vegetable-specific Fact Sheets:
• Home Vegetable Gardening in Washington, #EM057E
• Vegetable-specific Fact Sheets (14): Beans (Dry) #FS135E, Beans (Green) #FS088E, Carrots #FS118E, Corn #FS104E, Cucumbers #FS096E, Eggplant #FS149E, Garlic #FS162E, Onions #FS097E, Peas #FS116E, Peppers #FS220E, Potatoes #FS165E, Radishes #FS127E, Squash #FS087E, Tomatoes #FS145E Sweet Potatoes
• Pest Control in Home Vegetable Gardens, #EM009E
• How to Install a Floating Row Cover, #FS089E
• Growing Food on Parking Strips & in Front Yard Gardens, #FS115E
• Propagating Plants from Seed, #PNW0170
• Raised Beds, Deciding If They Benefit Your Vegetable Garden, #FS075E
Growing Your Own Tomatoes and Tomatillos OSU [EC1333]
Growing Tomatoes in Home Gardens [FS145E] and Cheat Sheet for Growing Tomatoes [OSU 10 Minute University]
Problems
Pest Control in Home Vegetable Gardens, #EM009E
Straw Bale Gardening Resources
Books:
Growing Vegetables in Straw Bales, Easy planting, less weeding, early harvests by Craig Le Houllier
Straw Bale Gardens Complete by Joel Karsten
Online:
Straw Bale Gardening (WSU https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/2071/2013/12/Straw-Bale-Gardening.pdf)
Straw Bale Gardening (Clemson Cooperative Extension https://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/straw-bale-gardening/)
Master Gardeners Straw Bale Gardening video (University of Minnesota, Kandiyohi County Master Gardeners--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed0ds9rvOMg)
Container Gardening
Great resources—everything you need!
Growing Food on Parking Strips & in Front Yard Gardens, #FS115E
Raised Beds
Raised Beds, Deciding If They Benefit Your Vegetable Garden, #FS075E
Raised Bed Gardening [OSU 10 Minute University]
Straw Bale Gardening Basics and Straw Bale Gardening WSU[FS109E]
Fertilizing
Calculating Fertilizer Applications
Seed Starting
Seed Starting—How to, step-by-step
Territorial Seeds Planting Chart
Territorial Seed Growing Guides
When to Plant Seeds in Washington WSU-Excerpt from EM057E
Propagating Plants from Seed, #PNW0170
Saving Seeds
Cheat sheet for saving many different seeds
Extending the growing season—Plant earlier, Harvest later!
How to Install a Floating Row Cover, #FS089E
Fall and winter gardens
Fall and Winter Vegetable Gardening in the PNW [PNW548]
Fall and Winter Vegetable Gardening for Western WA
Harvesting
Growing Herbs
Growing Herbs in Home Gardens This is a great website for growing herbs—from starting seeds and planting, to how to keep your herbs healthy and productive, and a good section on preserving herbs.
Growing Herbs Cheat Sheet OSU 10 Minute University
Nine best herbs for containers Swanson Nursery