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Academic Search Premier
This is a great database to use when just starting research. It contains resources on many subject areas and disciplines. Some full text articles are included. Access provided by Badgerlink.
Agricola
Citations for journal articles, theses, technical reports, and more relating to all aspects of agriculture are included in Agricola. Publications from 1970 to the present.

Library books on gardening

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. -- Thomas Jefferson

Vegetable Garden Problem Solver by Fern Marshall Bradley
Call Number: 635 M35r
Chapters on composting, crop rotation, cover crops, pests, and diseases.
All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space! by Mel Bartholomew
Call Number: 635 B283a
Start a Community Food Garden by LaManda Joy
Call Number: 635 J84s
Publication Date: 2014-12-30
The Wisconsin Garden Guide by Jerry A. Minnich
Call Number: 635 M666w
The New Organic Grower by Eliot Coleman
Call Number: 635 C67n
Sections on green manure (cover crops) and crop rotation.
How to Grow More Vegetables, Eighth Edition by John Jeavons
Call Number: 635 J34h
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping by Seth Kroeck; Jocelyn Langer
Call Number: 631.45 K91c
ISBN: 1603583459
Publication Date: 2011-04-15
Straw Bale Garden Complete: breakthrough vegetable gardening method by Joel Karsten
Call Number: 635 K14s
Publication Date: 2015-02-15
Let It Rot! The Gardener's Guide to Composting by Stu Campbell
Call Number: 631.8 C15l
Publication Date: 1998-01-03
Four-Season Harvest: organic vegetables from your home garden all year around by Eliot Coleman
Call Number: 635 C67f
Publication Date: 1999-10-01
Year-round vegetable production by Eliot Coleman
Call Number: DVD 635 YEA
See also the book Winter Harvest Handbook, 635 C67w
The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries by Michael Phillips
Call Number: 634 P54h

Calendar and planting times

Planting Guide for Wisconsin Vegetables
Planting times, indoors and outdoors, for Madison, Wisconsin. From The Wisconsin Garden Guide by Jerry Minnich.

Fearless food gardening in Chicagoland : a month-by-month growing guide for beginners
Call number 635 G13f
The Garden Planting Calendar
Type in a select zipcode or city to access a chart of when and how to plant vegetables.

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