Beginner Gardening

This beginner gardening website's objective is to give you the information you need to have a great garden.

I'm Doug Green and I've been in the nursery business for over 30 years now - growing everything I can lay my hands on and then writing about it. What you'll get on this website is my straightforward advice on how to have a great organic garden.

And oh yeah, I'm a somewhat lazy gardener so these techniques are environmentally sound and they're easy to do.

As a final note, if you check out the left hand navigation bar, you'll see a listing of topics on the top that are on this website and then a listing of topics that are covered in more in-depth writing on my other websites.

What's Here You Can Find Useful?

Free Gardening Newsletter

I answer gardening questions in my free gardening newsletter. You're invited to sign up (the link to unsubscribe is in every issue

Forums.

These forums are organized by region, and I'd invite you to join us to discuss gardening topics that make sense to you.

Free Gardening Seminars

I run free online garden seminars at one of my other sites. These are perfect for folks who want to learn something at their own pace and time. Check it out and join us - you've never seen anything like it on any other gardening site.

Garden Pictures and Video.

Garden pictures and video are posted here for all of us to share.

My video blog is here.

Perennials

Perennial flowers are the backbone of the flower garden. Here are some useful tips as well as plant suggestions.

Organic Lawn Care

Organic lawn care techniques are covered pretty thoroughly right here.

Want a vine?

Here are some vines you can use to hide a fence or cover an arbor very quickly.

Bulbs

Bulbs are season long bloomers in my garden. Here are a few tips and plants you might want to grow.

Water gardens

There is on reason why you can't have a water garden, no matter the size (or lack of size) of your garden area.

Roses

Roses are the Queen of garden flowers. Luckily it is a lot easier to grow than the books would have us believe. I've written two book about roses and I think they're easy to grow if you follow a few simple organic guidelines.

Compost

A good garden runs on compost or compost tea (if you can't make enough compost). Here are the tricks.

Herbs

Herbs are an important part of our gardens. For their utility as well as their beauty. Here's how to grow them.

Pest Control

Pest control creates more headaches for beginner gardeners than almost anything else. Here are the basics of easy (and organic) pest control techniques.

Container Gardening

Container gardening and the tricks of the trade to create marvellous baskets and pots are covered in this section

Ebooks

Ebooks are the simplest way to get clear information without a lot of padding to fill up a book. Here are the ones I've written.

Indoor Gardening

Houseplants and the basics of growing them are here. This is mostly about overwintering plants rather than the specifics of growing weird foliage plants.