• Backyard Fruits
  Backyard Fruits gives the basics of growing fruit in the home garden.
• Hort Corner
  An extensive website about plants, home gardening, insects, trees and shrubs.
• Garden Calendar
  A helpful monthly guide to know what to do in your garden.
• Gardening with Perennials
  Gardening with Perennials will tell you how to plant and care for a garden that will bloom year after year.
• Gardening with Annuals
  Find out how annual flowers can brighten your garden.
• Lawn Challenge
  Test your lawn care knowledge in this interactive eight lesson self-study course.
• Illinois Forestry
  A wonderful library of links to forestry information and management references for citizens, students, teachers, landowners, environmental groups, natural resource managers, foresters, and loggers.
• Beyond Impatiens and Petunias
  Find out about plants that offer color and interest to some of the most extreme gardening situations.
• Container Gardening
  Learn the basics of creating a great looking container garden.

Master Gardeners
The Master Gardener program trains adult volunteers who provide horticulture information to home gardeners.

• Composting for the Homeowner
  This site gives an excellent indepth discussion of the science of composting, why it is important to compost, how to build a compost pile, and materials needed for composting.
  
  
• Composting in the Home Garden
  Turn your yard waste into compost.