Welcome! The Greenest Thumb is a website dedicated to aiding and inspiring the home gardener. Its pages are meant as a guide for beginning gardeners as well as a resource for the more advanced horticulturalist. 

Our content changes regularly to help you establish and maintain your landscape and vegetable garden throughout the year.  We hope that you will find information and resources to enhance your gardening experience! 

Coming soon will be new links for water gardening and tree selection!

 For new visitors to our site… Our home page features tips and to do items specific to the current month. For more detailed information and to view our featured plants and projects for the month, try clicking on the links to the right.

Thanks for visiting our site and happy gardening!

It's March 2008!

Here's our monthly to do list:

• Spring is right around the corner and this month we are focusing on planning for the up coming growing season.
•  Now is the time to start thinking about your vegetable garden, especially if you live in the southern part of the country. Check out our vegetable garden page for more information on starting a new garden and also a list of some of our favorite homegrown fare. 
• It is also time to start browsing those perennial and flower seed catalogs and placing orders for the spring. Our perennials page has lots of helpful information and our retailer’s guide can provide you with lots of places to order more information, plants, and other landscape materials.
• Now is also the time to apply your first fertilization of the year for flower beds and lawns. PIck up a good pre-emergent fertilizer at your local home store for your lawn and use compost in flower and vegetable beds. This early feeding is a really shot in the arm for your new spring growth. Check out our new perennials page for more information on developing a long lasting flower garden.