Welcome to my beginner gardening website - where I do my best to provide gardening information that helps rather than confuses. My objective here is to take the mystery out of gardening and to help you realize that gardening isn't rocket science and should be fun, not a hassle.
I'm Doug Green, a 30-year nursery veteran, award-winning book author, and organic gardener. In fact, I ran my nursery for many years only using organic techniques and I do my best to help you do the same in your garden.
Understand that all 6000 pages on my sites are based on organic and environmentally sound ways of gardening and having fun doing it.
Please note the search box at the bottom of the page and the "More Content" button at the top. These two resources will help you find darn near anything you need in the way of gardening information.
Finally, you're going to find Q&A forms as well as reader-submissions forms scattered throughout the site where you can either ask questions, upload pictures or help other gardeners.
You can sign up for updates to all the major content areas, sign up for the gardening newsletter, watch gardening videos or browse and find the things that interest you.
Thanks for visiting and sharing your time with me - I hope I can help you be a better gardener and have more fun doing it.
Doug
Eating What You Grow
Everything you'd ever need to know about vegetable gardening in practical terms
So Clean You Roll on It
Organic lawn care explained and how to do it easily - it isn't rocket science but it is effective.
Growing Up
Some of your vertical plant options and how to grow them to best advantage
The backbone garden plants
These are the backbone plants for your everblooming garden and how to grow them
A free monthly gardening newsletter with questions and answers, articles and links backed up by over 30 years of professional gardening experience
Doug's beginner gardening blog where he share his pictures, ideas and articles - you can get it via email or through a rss reader.
The #1 Flower
How to successfully organically grow this most popular flowering plant
How to Control with Organics
Sometimes, just sometimes you have to fight back and control garden pests - here's how
Backbone Woody Plants
These are the year round points of interest in your garden
Plants going to pot
There are only a few things you really need to know to grow great containers
Garden courses and seminars (free) taught by Doug with the courses decided on by mass voting of subscribers.
Doug writes ebooks on practical how-to subjects to save you time and effort and teach you exactly what you need to know
Instant Summer Long Color
Annual plants - how to start, buy or grow
Gorgeous Beauty
There's a bulb in bloom in every season in my garden - you can do it as well
Simple When You Understand
This isn't rocket science and when you understand the basics, it's all easy from there.
Sweets from the Garden
There are few things nicer than juicy fruit, freshly picked right from your own garden
General Info
General information on a wide range of flower gardening techniques
Bringing Outdoors Inside
Practical hints and tips for indoor gardening with a few favorite plants
Premium full courses and information on a wide variety of subjects with guaranteed answers from Doug. Advanced gardening newsletters and other topics.
A variety of picture contests and garden videos produced by Doug
All of Doug's garden video to show you things, entertain you and teach you the basics of great gardening. All done by Doug in his usual style of making the complicated very easy to understand.
This is Doug's main blog where he shares a wide variety of gardening information and thoughts. His sense of humor is unleashed against the walls of staid old gardening.