Gardening Resources

Find out more about useful strategies and practices that will help make your garden more sustainable for a changing climate. 

• Climate stability.  Work with nature to combat floods, droughts and weather extremes

• Ecological Gardening.  Turn any landscape into islands of habitat.

• Protecting Pollinators.  Biodiversity is in our hands.

• Invasives.  Control the spread of invasive insects, plants and pathogens

• UMass Extension Factsheets - Landscape, Nursery and Urban Forestry

• UMass Extension Factsheets - Home Lawn and Garden

• Penn State Extension

• Clemson University Home & Garden Information Center Factsheets (South Carolina)

• Disinfecting Garden Tools (University of Florida Extension)

• USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

• Level III and IV Ecoregions of the Continental United States

• US Drought Monitor

• US EPA Air Quality and Wildfires

Get digital versions of handouts offered at out Ask-A-Master-Gardener Booths here.

• Grow Native Massachusetts

• Grow Native! (Missouri)

• National Wildlife Federation: Native Plant Finder

• Native Plant Trust Go Botany (plant identification)

• Native Plant Trust Garden Plant Finder (New England)

• Massachusetts Invasive Species Information (Introduced Pests Outreach Project)

• Soil pH Testing at your event

• University of Massachusetts Extension Service Soil Testing

• University of Connecticut Soil Testing

• The University of Maine Soil Testing

• University of New Hampshire Soil Testing

• University of Vermont Soil Testing

• Soil Basics (Soil Science Society of America)