Recommended research: books, articles, websites
Websites and articles
Sustainable Growing
Why you should try no-till gardening: cultivating your microbiome
Using brix scores to mitigate insect pressure. Additional Brix information from Organic Canada
Why you should plant buckwheat!!!!
Using Urine as a fertilizer and another article
When to start spring cleaning: pollinator focus. Second article
Permaculture and no-till: Living Soil and Regenerative Grower’s Guide
Soil sampling guide
Powdery Mildew and Blight
Disease resistant plants if you are battling powdery mildew or blight
Powdery mildew information and treatment: Simplify Gardening; University of Minnesota Extension
Borers and other pests
Borer information from University of Iowa Extension
Using brix scores to mitigate insect pressure. Additional Brix information from Organic Canada
Dahlia stuff
Growing dahlias in hot weather
Dahlia form descriptions and examples from the American Dahlia Society
Dahlia varieties recommended for seed production
Resources from the American Dahlia Association
Excellent dahlia resources from the flowering farmhouse on all things dahlia
Excellent information about tuber viability from summerdreamsfarms.com
Other goodness
Getting happy in the dirt: antidepressants in your soil
Why you should set up a mosquito bucket
Books
All things dahia: growing, cutting, etc.
Excellent source for what to harvest for cut flowers, all year long: Floret Year in Flowers
Permaculture and no-till: Living Soil and Regenerative Grower’s Guide