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BBC Gardening Message Board - Access to a range of bulletin boards, covering house plants, garden design, pests and diseases, allotment tales.

Kitchen Garden Forum - Run by Kitchen Garden - monthly magazine devoted to vegetables, fruit and herbs.

Organic Garden - The email list for the Organic UK web site - discussing organic gardening. For beginners and 'old hands', aimed mainly at organic gardeners in the UK.

The Organic-L list - For organic gardeners

Real Gardeners - Bulletin board from Real Gardeners - mainly UK membership, but some further afield.

uk.rec.gardening Home Page - Guide to numerous resources gathered by the indefatigable URGlers.

Yahoo! Groups - Kitchengardens - For allotment and vegetable gardeners in the UK. Discussion has a distinct bias towards conditions, varieties and pests/diseases appropriate to the UK.

Real Gardeners UK - Gardening community with discussion forums, diary, seed exchange, live chat room, and photograph albums.

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