Fact Sheets

Capital District Community Gardens offers gardening fact sheets, free for the taking, at our office or for you to print from our web site! We have approximately 40 fact sheets on topics from asparagus to growing your own seedlings. We will be adding them all to our web site soon!

The online fact sheets are in Adobe's pdf format. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print the fact sheets if your browser doesn't already support pdf files.

Much thanks to our staff and volunteers for writing these fact sheets! If you are interested in volunteering to write a fact sheet or two, or if you have a topic that you would like read about, please let us know.

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• Alliums: Allium is the hardy genus of herbs and vegetables that gives us the onion, garlic, chive, leek and shallot.
• Asparagus: Asparagus is a perennial vegetable that thrives almost anywhere in the U.S. including our northeast climate.
• Growing Late Season Crops: While you're enjoying your tomatoes, peppers, and other fruits of your spring-planted crops, don't forget to sow seeds for a great fall crop.
• Growing Your Own Seedlings: Read about two great reasons to grow your own seedlings.
• Gardening for Your Health: Learn to easily improve your diet, feel better, lower your blood pressure, and more!
• Raising a New Crop of Gardeners: Gain more reasons to spend time in your garden by helping the children in your life learn about gardening.
• Maximizing Your Garden Space: Secrets of Intensive Gardening revealed.
• Growing and Caring for Peas: and then eating them!
• Planning Your Vegetable Garden:True or False -- It's a good idea to situate your garden near overhanging tree branches. Read this fact sheet to find out!
• Growing Strawberries: You probably already know that fresh strawberries taste the best. Find out how to grow your own delicious strawberries.
• The Tomato: You can grow tomatoes in a large space or in a limited space ... read this fact sheet to find out what kind of plants to grow.
• Growing Cover Crops 101: Why grow something you're not going to eat? See how doing this can help your edible crops!
• Crowd Control: Are your cucumbers bullying your tomatoes? Do your squashes squash everything else? Here's a few helpful ideas.
• Rhubarb: Here's an easy-to-grow plant that can cause you to bake some incredible desserts.
• Feed Your Soil: If you want a high-yield, pest-free garden, learn how to build healthy soil.
• How to Control Weeds: Prevention and dealing with existing offenders!
• Beneficial Insects: Beckon certain insects to your garden today.
• Making the Most of Compost: Learn more about the heart and soul of organic gardening.
• Growing Amaryllis: Brighten those bleak winter days.
• Hardy Houseplants: Even if you don't have a green thumb, here's some houseplant ideas for you.
• Mulch: Eighteen kinds of mulch -- there's got to be one for you!
• ABC's of Garden Bugs: From Aphids to Slugs these are the bugs you should get to know.  
• Freeze Your Vegetable Harvest: Extend the benefits of your summer garden.  Freezing is an economic and simple to continue enjoying the fruits of your labor all winter long.