The Gardener's Guide to Finding Answers on the InternetThe Internet is great for surfing but when it comes to finding a specific piece of information, it's still hard paddling. Although we have Alta Vista, Yahoo, Lycos, and exicte! and all the numerous other catalogs and search engines, finding specific gardening information is still not an easy task. Here are some useful tools, some old (in Internet years) and some new, which will help you find answers to your questions quickly and efficiently.
Broad Topics The following collections are organized by topic:
Specific Questions
Plant Selection
Gardeners are never short of opinions, so if you're looking for picks and pans on catalogs, books, favorite varieties or for creative solutions to gardening problems, newsgroups and mailing lists are an excellent place to put your question. But if you are looking for a solid, authoritative answer, these forums are about as reliable a source of high-quality information as the average backyard full of gardening friends at a barbeque. You might get lucky and be offered advice by a bona fide expert, but then again you might end up with bad advice that will end up costing you time and money. As a general rule, the more specialized the forum, the better the chance that it will offer high-quality information.
Regional Information
There's always the trip to the library, but that's a radical concept in this hi-tech age...
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