Several new information resources have been added. Links to school gardening ideas, kids and community gardens, and a fun page for kids are featured in kinderGARDEN.

Lavender bluebonnets???? Yes, lavender. Read about the new lavender bluebonnets released in honor of former First Lady Barbara Bush.

TEAM TOMATOsm is a scripted slide set produced by Bill Adams, horticulturist, Harris County Extension Office. The program gives pointers about how to grow an excellent tomato garden from seed starting to finish.

MAJOR effort is underway to deliver horticultural publications in the Adobe Acrobat format. Major additions are in the Crop Production and Gardening section (in the new sections on commercial nursery/floral production and commercial vegetable production, home gardening), and in the EarthKind Environmental Landscape section. These files are recognized by the distinctive logo.

The tomato disorders module of the Texas Master Gardener Online Disorder Identification Guide is ready for testing. Please send in your comments and suggestions regarding the usefulness of this new gardening tool.

If you are a new user of the World-Wide Web, you will want to read Entering the World-Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace,an excellent primer on Internet and the Web.