Horticulture

Horticulture

Anton Zwengauer, Garten vor Kirche

Horticulture is an effort to create a coherent and wide-ranging guide to the practice of gardening. The text is intended for use by horticulture students, horticultural workers, and home gardeners.

The project scope aims at temperate-region gardens, spanning the USDA Hardiness Zones 4-8.

Chapters

Garden Basics

Types of Gardens

• Container Gardening
• Rock Gardens
• Water Gardens
• Herb Gardens
• Flower Gardens
• Color Gardens
• Community Gardens

Outdoor Gardening

• Elements of a Garden Location
• First Steps in Planning a Garden
• Laying Out a Garden Bed
• Putting a Garden Plan into Action
• Permaculture
• Raised Beds

Soils, composting and mulches

• Soils and Composts
• Soil Improvement

Propagation methods, seeds and sowing

• Irrigation
• Leaf Cuttings
• Planting Techniques
• Sowing

Plants

Outdoor Plants

• Foliage
• Flowers
• Foods
• Grasses
• Trees
• Shrubs
• Fungi and Lichen
• Mosses and Bryophites

House plants

• House Plants

Container Plants

• Flowers
• Foods
• Terrariums

Tools

• Lawn Mowers
• Protective Clothing

Materials

• Herbicides

Schedule of activities

• Spring Cleanup
• Fall Cleanup

Problems

Weeds

• Weed Profiles
• Weeding Tools

Pests and diseases

• Pest Control Methods
• Pest Profiles
• Pesticides
• Plant Pests and Diseases

Resources

• All pages of Horticulture
• Index
• Requests

Contributing

• An invitation to contribute
  • List of contributors
• Discuss the project
• Manual of style
• Using the page templates to begin a new page
• Modifying Wikipedia articles for use here