Seed Starting Discussions
Ask questions and share your knowledge about how to start seeds

Seed Exchange - Share & Trade Seeds
Share and Trade Seeds with other gardeners.

Raised Bed Gardening
Learn how to build a raised bed garden and grow vegetables. Literally everything you need to know is right here.

Pepper Forum
A community to help you grow peppers! Information on Hot & Sweet peppers, soil preparation, starting peppers, identifying cultivation problems and great tips for a successful pepper harvest! Yum!

Onion Gardening Forum
A forum for learning how to grow onions. Get friendly answers to your questions.

Leafy Greens
A leafy vegetable gardening forum for discussing how to grow spinach, kale, Swiss chard, arugula, romaine lettuce, bok choy, microgreens, collard greens, cabbage, watercress, beet greens, turnip greens, endive

TOMATO FORUM
A FRIENDLY Tomato Forum since 2003 - A discussion board about growing tomatoes, diagnose tomato problems and learning about different varieties of tomatoes.

Heirloom Tomatoes Forum
Heirloom Tomato Forum

Tomato Garden Progress + Photos & Videos
Share how your tomatoes are growing... with photos and videos! This is the tomato forum for sharing details about how your tomatoes are doing.

Vegetable Gardening Forum
Discuss the care and propagation of a vegetable garden. A vegetable gardening forum for asking vegetable garden questions.

Vegetable Garden Progress + Photos & Videos
A forum to discuss the progress of your garden... with photos and videos!

Organic Gardening Forum
Quite likely the friendliest Organic Gardening Forum on the web. Promoting sustainable gardening since 2003. Join the conversation!

Composting Forum
Compost is the key for a healthy thriving garden. We cover the how, what, where, and why of composting. Read our discussions in the composting forums.

Organic Insect and Plant Disease Control
How to control insects and plant diseases the natural way.

Permaculture Forum
A forum about Permaculture

Chickens/Ducks, Goats, and other Livestock
A forum for the discussion of the care and maintenance topics related to raising chickens, ducks, goats and other animals.

Canning - Preserving - Recipes
A forum about what to do with the food after it is harvested. Now that you have pulled it out of the ground, are you going to cook it, can it, preserve it? Tell us how you play with your food!

Beekeeping
How to care for bees. A forum for discussing all aspects of beekeeping, and not just honeybees, all kinds of bees!

Herb Gardening Forum
Herbs! Convenient for growing in containers and even in the smallest of gardens, even on a patio.

Mushroom Forum
Learn how to grow mushrooms! A friendly community for talking about growing mushrooms. Click here to visit the forum.

Apple Topics
A forum specifically about growing apple trees and how to care for them.

Grapes - How to Grow Grapes
Learn how to prune, train and grow grapes. A chat forum about the cultivation of Grapes.

Orange Tree Growing Topics
A forum for discussing how to grow and care for oranges.

Lemon Growing Discussions
An online community for discussing how to grow lemon trees

All Other Fruit
A forum for asking questions and sharing answers about growing different kinds of fruit

BONSAI FORUM
Bonsai Forums for discussing care, pruning, identification, watering of bonsai.

Indoor Bonsai Forum
Discuss bonsai tree issues unique to growing bonsai indoors. The friendly bonsai forum!

Bonsai Identification
Do you have a bonsai but don't know what kind of tree it is, much less how to care for it? Then please take a look at this library of tree indentifications and see if you can find the tree that looks like yours. Once you have identified it and the care instructions, if you have more questions then feel free to ask them in the regular bonsai forum.

Bonsai Learning Forum & Library
Helpful bonsai discussions from the past that will help answer common bonsai questions as well as increase your knowledge of caring for bonsai. Moderators will also post about articles and other finds on the Internet.

Bonsai Photo Gallery
Looking for pictures of bonsai? If you have a photo you'd like to share, we'd like to see it!

We encourage you to publish pics to those that you have actually taken yourself.

Japanese Garden Forum
A friendly place to discuss Japanese gardening techniques.

Cactus Forum - Cacti Including all Succulent Plants
Have a question or discussion about cactus/cacti? This is the forum to do it in. By popular demand.

Container Gardening Forum
A forum for discussion of growing plants in containers, whether indoors or outdoors.

Container gardening is similar to regular gardening (ie. use good soils and so on....place shade plants in shaded areas, place sun plants in sunny areas etc.). But, watering and other considerations are so much different with container plants.

HYDROPONICS FORUM
Discuss issues specific to hydroponic gardening, including grow lights, techniques, supplies, and nutrients.

Greenhouse Forum
A forum to discuss all aspects of cultivating plants in a greenhouse.

Rose Forum
Rose Gardening Forum for discussions about the care of roses, including pruning, weather protection, watering, fertilizing and also organic roses, planting instructions, disease prevention, etc. Join and share!

Gardening with Native Plant Species
How to garden with native plants. While what's native differs depending on where you're living, the principle remains the same.

Gardening with native plant species feeds the insects that feed the birds that help the plants propogate, affecting all points of the animal and plant life cycle.

Wildlife - Gardening with Local Critters in Mind
For discussion of getting along with wildlife species that are native to your garden, including beneficial birds, insects and other animals that will help in creating a garden that is harmonious with your environment. Discussions about co-existing with deer, rabbits, and rodents are also welcome!

Trees, Shrubs, and Hedges
A friendly forum to explore the unique qualities and problems that come with trees, shrubs and hedges. Share your questions and tips about trees, shrubs and hedges right here!

Hydrangea Forum
The renewal of interest in the Hydrangea has led to many gardeners wondering what to do with them. Drop in for a friendly discussion or questions related to the care and propagation of hydrangeas.

Perennials
Visit the Perennials Forum! Perennials are ever-reliable plants that require minimal maintenance and provide dependable beauty year after year in our gardens. Come here to discuss the care, selection, planning and propagation of your perennials.

Hosta
A forum community to discuss the care and cultivation of Hosta.

Lilacs Forum
A forum for discussions about the Lilac. Share your Lilac care experiences and tips, or ask your Lilac questions here. Don't be shy!

Flower Gardening & Garden Design
The joys of gardening range from planning all winter to the end product in the fall. Your garden may cover many acres, or it may be no larger than a small room, this is the flower gardening forum to discuss it in.

Lawn Care
A friendly place to discuss lawns and grass issues, including choosing the best variety for your area and keeping it healthy.

Landscaping
Landscape Design and Landscaping Maintenance. This forum is a friendly place to discuss garden design issues. Ask questions about how to design a garden, find ideas and tips! Looking to hire a landscape architect or garden designer? Get your facts right here.

Water Gardening
For discussion of water based garden features, including ponds, waterfalls, landscaping with water, and the plants that live in the water.

Plant Identification
Have a plant/tree/bush but don't know what it is? Ask here in the Plant Identification Forum.

What Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
Anything GARDENING RELATED that doesn't fit into the other categories please feel free to post in this forum.

Gardening Blogs
Noting the best of gardening blogs on the web. Highlighting blogs that we feel contain high quality information that is useful to home gardeners.

One Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka
The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. Join us in discussing this well regarded book. It's not a book review, it's a book club.

Teaming with Microbes Revised Edition - Jeff Lowenfels - Wayne Lewis
Discussion of the revised edition of Teaming with Microbes. A chapter by chapter discussion of the book as well as discussions about topics raised by each chapter. Pick up a copy of the book and read along!

Gardening Books - General Discussions
Read a good gardening book? Discuss your favorite gardening books here. This is the forum for discussing different gardening books, to recommend favorite books and to discuss various books.

Non-Gardening Related Hoo-ha and Foo
This is a Members Only Forum about anything you want to discuss, as long as it's NOT gardening related. You can even create polls. Let down your hair and leave the gardening gloves behind.