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Resourceful by Nature

Make your garden the best it

can be with information

from your local library!

Shortgrass Member Libraries Alcoma Community Library (Rainier) Located in the Alcoma School

Telephone: 403-362-3741

Bassano Memorial Library Telephone: 403-641-4065

Bow Island Municipal Library Telephone: 403-545-2828

Brooks Public Library Telephone: 403-362-2947

Duchess & District Public Library Telephone: 403-378-4369

Foremost Municipal Library Telephone: 403-867-3855

Graham Community Library (Ralston) Located in the Ralston Community Center

Telephone: 403-544-3670

Medicine Hat Public Library Telephone: 403-502-8525

Redcliff Public Library Telephone: 403-548-3335

Rolling Hills Public Library Located in Rolling Hills School

Telephone: 403-964-2186 (Library)

Rosemary Community Library Located in Rosemary School

Telephone: 403-378-4493

Tilley Public Library Located in Tilley School

Telephone: 403-377-2233

Revised: March 14, 2012 — AMC

Shortgrass Libraries purchase access to several online (electronic) services that offer gardening information. With a Shortgrass Library card and PIN, you may access this online information 24/7 from an Internet connection. Visit www.shortgrass.ca and select “Search Online Resources” to find these reference materials.

Environment Complete Along with content intended for an academic

audience, you’ll find articles from Mother Earth News in full text PDF format.

Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center Under the Home & Leisure category there is a link to articles about gardening. Watch a video tour at: http://bit.ly/gIMdr9

Home Improvement Reference Center Gardening information, including articles about Container Planting and Raised Gardens, is available under the Outdoor project list.

Recommended Websites

www.calhort.org The Calgary Horticultural Society website provides fact sheets and links to lists of plants considered harmful to the environment.

www.gardenforever.com A website that compiles gardening information for people of all ages and abilities.

Online Gardening Information

Shortgrass Libraries subscribe to more than 18 individual magazines about, or related to, gar-dening, and all of them are available for you to borrow. Here are just a few of the magazines that Shortgrass Libraries have in their collections.

Alberta Gardener This guide to gardening in Alberta is about the plants available here, plus how to grow and use them in your garden.

Canadian Gardening With information about vegetable, flower, and container gardening, this is a great read for Canadian gardeners.

Gardener for the Prairies Focused on prairies gardening, it features articles about fruits and vegetables, water gardening, trees and shrubs, and diseases.

Organic Gardening This magazine has been offering advice and in-formation about organic gardening for more than 67 years.

Taunton’s Fine Gardening This magazine is full of design ideas, helpful techniques and the know-how to get great results from your own garden. Each issue includes arti-cles on the basics of garden design, information on all types of plants, time saving tips, and tool reviews from editors and readers alike.

Magazines about Gardening 73 Skills to Create Your Dream Garden This DVD, hosted by Gord Nickel, contains 73 separate videos that let you zero in on the information you need and then get out and do it. Brooks Public Library DVD, 635.0971 SEV

A Comprehensive Guide to Going Green Included in this 2 DVD set are tips on natural lawn and garden care. Medicine Hat Public Library DVD, 333.72 COM

Canadian Gardener with David Tarrant Renowned gardener and horticulturalist David Tarrant inspires people of all ages and abilities to roll up their sleeves and cultivate their own love of gardening. Medicine Hat Public Library DVD, 635.0971 CAN

Landscaping This DVD takes you through the most popular and manageable projects you can undertake to improve the appearance of your yard and value of your home. Medicine Hat Public Library DVD, 635 LAN

Lawncare University: Sixteen Lessons for a Perfect Lawn by the Experts Provides training on topics such as spring cleanup, mowing, weed and pest control, fertilizing, and watering; this DVD will help you have a healthy and good looking lawn. Brooks Public Library DVD, 635.9647 LAW

DVDs about Gardening Burpee The Complete Flower Gardener This full-colour guide shows you how to plan, plant and maintain a beautiful flower garden. It offers guidance on creating borders and beds, combining flower colours and shapes, selecting gardening tools and much more. 635.9 CUT

Garden Bugs of Alberta Kenneth McNichol Fry helps you understand that many common bugs found in your garden are essential predators necessary to keep plant-attacking insects under control. 635.049712 FRY

Garden Wisdom & Know-How In this practical guide, loaded with photos, Judy Pray offers tips and techniques for planting and maintaining a garden. This includes designing by bloom season. 635 GAR

Grow Great Grub Urban gardening expert, Gayla Trail, provides this essential and encouraging guide for gardeners who want to grow their own food. 635.0484 TRA

New Annuals for Canada Rob Sproule, of Salisbury Greenhouses, offers easy to use ‘recipes’ for colour combinations suitable for beds, borders and containers in all locations. 635.9312 SPR

Small-Plot, High-Yield Gardening Sal Gilbertie has updated this classic guide to grow-ing bumper crops of vegetables in limited spaces for eco-conscious home gardeners. 635 GIL

A Few Books about Gardening

Remember! You can borrow books, magazines, DVDs, and

more from other Shortgrass Libraries. If it’s on the shelf at another member library, you

can have it in about a week!