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Raised Bed Gardening

UNH Cooperative Extension
Intensive Vegetable Gardening - http://extension.unh.edu/resources/files/Resource000612_Rep634.pdf

Square Foot Gardening website - Mel Bartholomew - http://www.squarefootgardening.com/whatissfg

Raised Bed How-Tos - http://www.wikihow.com/Construct-a-Raised-Planting-Bed

Container and Raised Beds from Purdue University - http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/ho-200.pdf

Advantages of Raised Beds - http://www.raised-garden-beds.com/Advantages-2.htm

Raised Bed Gardening - http://www.planetnatural.com/site/raised-bed-gardening.html

Container Gardening Information

UNH http://extension.unh.edu/resources/representation/Resource000610_Rep632.pdf

Arizona http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/vegetable/container.html

Clemson http://www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/plants/vegetables/gardening/hgic1251.html

Iowa http://www.extension.iastate.edu/publications/pm870b.pdf

Maryland http://www.hgic.umd.edu/_media/documents/HG600Containerveggardening.pdf

North Carolina http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8105.html

Ohio http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1647.html

Sunset http://www.sunset.com/garden/fruits-veggies/how-to-grow-veggies-in-pots-00400000012149/

Texas A&M http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/publications/guides/e-545_vegetable_gardening_containers.pdf

Virginia http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/426/426-336/426-336.html

Growing Potatoes in a Bag

http://www.veggiegardener.com/plant-potatoes-grow-bag/

http://www.gardeners.com/Potato-Grow-Bag-Instructions/7099,default,pg.html

Books:

Cubed Foot Gardening by Christopher O. Bird. The Lyons Press, 2001.

Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew. Cool Springs Publishing, 2006.

The NH Gardener's Companion by Henry Homeyer. Morris Book Publishing, 2007.

One Magic Square by Lolo Houbein. The Experiment LLC, 2010.

Raised Bed Gardening Made Simple by Raymond Nones. Countryman Press, 2010.

Carrots Love Tomatoes by Louise Riotte. Storey Publishing, LLC, 1998.

Fresh Food From Small Spaces by R. J. Ruppenthal. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008.

Books Gardening Books for Kids Corn Basket of veggies Radishes

Ages 1-3:

Quiet in the Garden	Aliki	Greenwillow	2009
The Tiny Seed	Carle, Eric	Little, Simon	1998
Jack's Garden	Cole, Henry	Demco Media	1997
Eating the Alphabet	Ehlert, Lois	HMH Books	2006
Growing Vegetable Soup	Ehlert, Lois	Voyager	1990
Spring Is Here, Corduroy	Freeman, Don	Grossett & Dunlap	2007
The Surprise Garden	Hall, Zoe	Blue Sky	1998
And the Good Brown Earth	Henderson, Kathy	Candlewick	2003
The Carrot Seed	Krauss, Ruth	Harper Collins	1945
The Tale of Peter Rabbit	Potter, Beatrix	Penguin	2002

Ages 4-8:

Corn Is Maize

Aliki

Collins

1986

A Gardener's Alphabet

Azarian, Mary

Houghton Mifflin

2000

The Summer My Father Was Ten

Brisson, Pat

Boyds Mills

1999

The Curious Garden

Brown, Peter

Little Brown

2009

The Gardening Book

Bull, Jane

DK Children

2003

Sunflower House

Bunting, Eve

Harcourt Brace

1996

How Groundhog's Garden Grew

Cherry, Lynn

Blue Sky

2003

Miss Rumphius

Cooney, Barbara

Viking

1982

Strega Nona's Harvest

dePaola, Tomie

Putnam

2009

City Green

DiSalvo-Ryan,DyAnne

Harper Collins

1994

Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!

Fleming, Candace

Simon & Schuster

2002

Sunflower

Ford, Meila

Greenwillow

1995

Yucky Worms

French, Vivian

Candlewick

2010

From Seed to Plant

Gibbons, Gail

Holiday House

1991

A Packet of Seeds

Hopkinson, Deborah

Greenwillow

2004

The Biggest Pumpkin Ever

Kroll, Steven

Cartwheel Books

2007

Roots, Shoots, Buckets, and Boots

Lovejoy, Sharon

Workman

1999

Inch By Inch: The Garden Song

Mallett, David

Harper Collins

1997

Mother Earth and Her Children

Olfers, Sibylle

Breckling Press

2007

Mrs. Spitzer's Garden

Pattou, Edith

Harcourt

2001

This Year's Garden

Rylant, Cynthia

Oxford University

1973

Tops and Bottoms

Stevens, Janet

Harcourt Brace

1995

Too Many Pumpkins

White, Linda

Holiday House

1996

June 29, 1999

Wiesner, David

Sandpiper

1995

Ages 9-12:

A Handful of Dirt

Bial, Raymond

Walker Books

2000

The Secret Garden

Burnett, Frances Hodgdon

Candlewick

2008

Native American Gardening

Caduto, M. and Bruchac, J.

Fulcrum

1996

Seed Folks

Fleischman, Paul

Harper Trophy

2004

The Vegetables We Eat

Gibbons, Gail

Holiday House

2008

Gardening With Children

Hanneman, Monika

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

2007

Grow Your Own Pizza!

Hardesty, Constance

Fulcrum Publishing

2000

Gardening Wizardry for Kids

Kite, L. Patricia

Barron's

1995

Kids' Container Gardening

Krezel, Cindy

Ball Publishing

2005

My Backyard Garden

Lerner, Carol

Morrow

1998

Trowel and Error

Lovejoy, Sharon

Workman

2002

New Junior Garden Book

Rushing, Felder

B H & G

1999

The Gardener

Stewart, Sarah

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

1997