There’s been an explosion in gardening websites over the last few years and a wealth of information is available. But if you can’t find the answer to your question, or you just want to connect with other gardeners all over the world, then you should check out some of the great gardening forums available. There’s a gardening forum to suit every gardener, no matter their skill level or areas of interest.
- GardenWeb advertises itself as the largest community of gardeners on the Internet. The forum covers nearly all aspects of gardening, with sections for rose growers, kitchen gardeners, wildflowers and native plants and propagation techniques. There’s also sections for gardeners in countries outside the USA.
- Dave’s Garden website contains a mountain of information for gardeners all over the world, as well as a comprehensive forum. This is the place to hang out if you want to chat about particular families of plants, specific gardening techniques, outdoor living and homesteading. There’s even separate sections for the different US regions.
- YouGrowGirl is a gardening website for real people – people who don’t have unlimited space, live in urban areas or just don’t have much time to garden. The forums offer practical advice to like-minded gardeners on subjects such as container gardening, native plants, indoor gardening, cacti and craft projects.
- The Grapevine Forum is based on the website of UK gardening magazine Grow Your Own. It’s a busy place and home to a community of keen vegetable and fruit growers who will happily respond to your queries and chat about what’s growing in their gardens. Each month the magazine prints a round-up of posts on a particular topic.
- The Kitchen Garden forum is another site hosted by a UK gardening magazine. Experienced kitchen gardeners hang out here, and it’s a great place to check out technical details and gardening best practice.
- The forum at SelfSufficientish is a friendly place inhabited by people who are trying to reduce their impact on the environment by becoming as self sufficient as possible (most people can’t move to the country and start a homestead). The gardening sections cover everything from finding an allotment (community garden), growing vegetables and herbs, keeping livestock and foraging for wild food.
- Allotments4All is a lively forum for kitchen gardeners, based in the UK but open to members from all over the world. The focus here is on growing edible plants, but there’s also sections for ornamental plants, livestock, wildlife, ponds and recipes for making the best use of your harvest.
- Vegetable Gardens is a new website, aiming to help gardeners grow tasty vegetables and fruit. The forum has all the sections you’d expect – seasonal vegetables, herbs, fruit, container gardening – as well as information on growing plants polytunnels and greenhouses and a place to brag about your gardening blog.
- The forums at Moosey’s Country Garden are a great place to chat about gardening in general, what’s growing in your garden, organic gardening and how to have a garden that’s good for you and your pets. You can even gets your plants identified, if you find something growing that you don’t recognize.
- The American gardening magazine Organic Gardening has a forum that’s a natural home for all organic gardeners. Subjects covered here include advice for new gardeners, recipes and craft ideas, herb gardening, and organic gardening issues.
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:06 am
Always happy to find out about good gardening sites.
November 8th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Thank you, Emma. This is a great gardening resource — especially for a novice gardener like myself.
Cheers,
Linda