Garden: Quick Tips for a Healthy & More Ecological Garden: Includes garden information basics, covering topics from site selection to soil to varieties. Click on the links to be brought to pages with more details. You’ll find an extensive amount of gardening information by exploring Cornell’s garden webpages! Cornell University, 2011
Growing Your Own: Good introduction to gardening in Oregon. Includes basics about setting up a garden, choosing varieties and planting times, soil building, and pest management. Oregon State University Extension, 2011
Intensive Gardening Techniques:Good introduction to beginning intensive gardening–a type of gardening that focuses on high production from a small space. This guide also provides a chart of intensive plant spacings, useful for gardeners just introduced to this concept who may not be able to visualize what these close spacings should look like. Alex Niemiera, Virginia Cooperative Extension
10 Minute University-The Fun of Know, Sow, Grow: This webpage has links to many short tutorials about various aspects of growing vegetables in the Pacific Northwest. Oregon Master Gardener Association and Oregon State University Extension, 2012
Raised Bed Gardening by D. Hatch:Very basic introduction to building raised beds for home gardeners. Oregon State University Extension, 2002
Short Season Vegetable Gardening: Brief guide for Maritime Northwest gardeners who experience shortened growing seasons due to early and late season rains. This guide provides tips to make the most of a short summer, extending the season with plant covers, short season cultivars, and garden site selection. Jo Ann Robbins and Wm. Michael Colt, Pacific Northwest Extension, 2000
Sunset Climate Zones: Western Oregon: Climate zones are more specific than the general hardiness zones published by the USDA. Using this map to find your climate zone will help in selecting the best varieties for your garden. Sunset, 2012
USDA Hardiness Zone Finder: This search allows you to find the hardiness zone for your garden, which will help when choosing varieties to grow. For a more detailed description of your garden climate, we recommend also determining your garden’s climate zone. National Gardening Association, 2012
Vegetable Gardening in Oregon: Great overview of soil warming techniques, suggested planting times and cultivars for various regions in Oregon, and suggested planting amounts for a family of four. J.R. Bagget, Deborah Kean, Dan Sullivan, Alex Stone, and Jim Myers, Oregon State University Extension, 2005
How to Build a Low Cost Hoop House: Step-by-step plans for a sturdy hoophouse structure. Though the size and strength of this structure make it ideal for market growers, even home gardeners will be able to take away some useful design tips from these plans. Wylie Harris, Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, 2009
How to Build Your Own Raised-Bed Cloche: Great guide for home gardeners looking to begin venturing into extended season gardening. Includes instructions and photographs to build a small hoop structure over raised beds. S. Angima and B. Biernacki, Oregon State University Extension, 2008
Portable Field Hoophouse: Good guide for building a basic, unheated hoophouse. Useful for small market growers and home gardens serious about extending the growing season. Carol Miles and Pat Labine, Washington State University Extension, 2009
A Small Backyard Greenhouse for the Home Gardener: Another guide to building a small hoophouse, appropriate for home gardeners and market growers. M.D. Boyette and T.E. Bilderback, North Carolina State University Extension, 1996
Use Low Tunnels to Grow Veggies in Winter: Quick Hoops: Elliot Coleman designed his low tunnels for growing in the Northeast, but this is a technique that is also very applicable for winter growing in the Pacific Northwest. Elliot Coleman, Mother Earth News, 2009
Winter Vegetable Gardening: Another grower’s experience with winter gardening techniques and varieties, based in Sumner, Washington. Travis Saling, The Westside Gardener, 2011
Tools
Clean, Sharp Tools Work Better: Good introduction to tool care, including removing rust, sharpening, and oiling. Ken Textor Fine Gardening
Garden Tool Articles: Several articles describing different types of tools and which varieties work best in different situations. Garden Tool Co., 2012
Tools and Equipment: Good introduction to different types of tools, their uses, and basic tool care. Organic Gardening, 2011
