Horticulture

Horticulture

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.

Anton Zwengauer, Garten vor Kirche

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
• Urban 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