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  • About
  • Events
  • Garden Directory
  • Partnerships
    • Garden to Food Pantry
    • Donors and Supporters
  • Resources
    • Gardening Resources
    • Community Garden Resources
    • Urban Agriculture Technical Assistance and Site Visits
    • Past HcGn Meetings
  • Contact

Garden Resources

COVID-19 Resource for Community Gardens

Garden Resources

Conservation Practices for the Garden

Cover Crops
  • Intro to Cover Crops for Urban Gardens (HCSWCD)
  • Cover Crops and Soil Health - MCSWCD Presentation Slides (2017-07-25 Version)
  • Marion County SWCD - Cover Crop Mixes and Rotations
  • Cover Crop Schedule for Indiana (HCSWCD)
  • Overseeding Oats and Crimson Clover as a Cover Crop in a Vegetable Garden (HCSWCD)
  • Overseeding Oats as a Cover Crop in a Vegetable Garden (HCSWCD)

Other
  • ​Basic No-Till Garden Recipe (NRCS, Sheila O'Reilly)
  • Best Practices for Health in the Garden (HCSWCD)
  • Composting Basics (Mother Hubbard's Cupboard)
  • Increasing Winter Soil Temperatures: How Gardeners Can Respond (HCSWCD)
  • NRCS Carbon Nitrogen
  • Organic Material that Can Be Used to Build a No-Till Garden (NRCS, Sheila O'Reilly)
  • Plant rotation in the Garden Based on Plant Families (PennState Extension) Building Soil Organic Matter (SOM)
  • Soil Health Resources​
  • Winter Preparation: Put your garden to bed! (HCSWCD)

​Updated: 7/27/2020

Material Resources: Top Soil and Compost Resources
  • Topsoil and Compost Sources and Costs within Hamilton County (HCSWCD)

Weed Management
  • Identifying Seedlings (so that you don't pull them!) (HCSWCD)
  • ​Introduction to Weed Management (HCSWCD)
  • Deepening Our Appreciation of Poison Ivy, Identifying, and Eliminating (HCSWCD)
  • Indicator Weeds and Weed Management (PowerPoint Presentation - HCSWCD - Updated 5/3/2017)
  • Likely Indicator Weeds for Gardens of Hamilton County, IN (PDF - HCSWCD - Edition 1, Updated 5/3/2017)

Fruit and Vegetable Growing
  • Beginners Guide to Growing Strawberries in Your Garden (HCSWCD)
  • Containing Mint (HCSWCD)
  • Cool Season Vegetables for Central Indiana (HCSWCD)
  • Grow Potatoes in a Bucket (The Great Grub Club)
  • Growing Indiana Vegetables in the Shade (HCSWCD)
  • Indiana: Vegetable Planting Calendar (Urban Farmer)
  • Rhubarb, Everything you ever wanted to know (Rhubarb-Central)
  • Vegetables for Alkaline Soils (HCSWCD)
  • Vegetable Garden Quality, Yield, and Savings comparisons​
  • Blackberry, Raspberry, Grape, and Blueberry Care Instructions (Arbor Day Foundation)

Fruit and Vegetable Care​
  • Peach Care (National Gardening Association)
  • Misshapen (Deformed) Cucumbers (HCSWCD)

Pest and Disease
  • ​About Insecticidal Soaps Link 1 and Link 2
  • Brown Rot (caused by Monilinia fructicola) on Stone Fruits (Purdue Extension)
  • Cytospora Canker of Stone Fruits - Care, planning, and removal (Penn State)
  • Cytospora Canker (Fort Collins Tree Care)
  • Identifying Caterpillars Eating Your Tomatoes
  • Integrated Management of Strawberry Diseases (The Ohio State University)
  • Managing Pests in Home Fruit Plantings (Purdue Extension, ID-146-W)
  • Managing Pests with Healthy Soil (SARE)
  • Organic Control of Tomato Hornworms
  • Purdue Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory
  • Rhubarb Diseases (Rhubarb-Central)
  • White Flies
  • Leaf Spot (Planet Natural Research Center)
  • Leaf Spot on Tomato (Univ. of Minnesota Extension)

Raised Beds
  • Hugelkultur, About
  • Raised Bed Ideas (Notey.com)
  • Raised Beds, Components of (HCSWCD)
  • Raised Beds, Introduction to (HCSWCD)
  • Raised Beds, Wall Assembly and Fasteners for (HCSWCD)
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Container Gardening
  • Container Garden Basics for Indoors and Outdoors (HCSWCD - Updated 5/3/2019)

Other
  • A Soil Healthy Lawn to Garden Method (HCSWCD) 
  • Certified Arborists
  • National Pesticide Information Center 

Updated: 03/25/2020

Other Links

  • Hamilton County Soil & Water Conservation District
  • American Community Gardening Association
  • USDA
  • Environmental Education in Tennessee
  • Vermont Community Garden Network
  • North American Association for Environmental Education
  • ​Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory

Contact

1717 Pleasant Street
Suite 100
Noblesville, IN 46060

ph: (317) 773-2181

www.HamiltonSWCD.org

email: soil.water@hamiltoncounty.in.gov

About

The mission of the HCGN is to sustain the vibrant urban and community agriculture movement in Hamilton County by supporting the health and inspiration of its leaders. We do this by creating a space to share local knowledge, encourage collaboration, and provide training, education, and equipping.

The Hamilton County Garden Network is an initiative of the Hamilton County Soil and Water Conservation District.
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