Washington  - Summertime is for gardening. And the BBC's gardening site (http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/) can help you cultivate your green thumb. There, you'll find tips for creating a beautiful garden in just about any type of environment. Tips and articles are arranged into categories that include "design," "plants," "basics," and "gardening on the move." There's a plant finder database as well as a nifty virtual gardening feature that lets you create your gardening concepts virtually before digging in the dirt.

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Washington (dpa) - If you want to get the best looking photos from your digital camera and printer, pay attention to the paper that you use. Find good photo paper, and stick with it. It's generally wise to buy paper from the maker of your printer, since the printer manufacturers calibrate the colour profiles that their models use according to the papers they sell. If you use other papers, it will be wise to look into buying your own calibration equipment to match what you see on the monitor with what you get on paper.

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Washington (dpa) - Tired of traditional doctors? Those practicing alternative medicines - anything from Shiatsu to Zen - are harder to come by - but often just as coveted. Luckily, the Internet's Dr Weil, a specialist in alternative medicines of all types, is now available to answer questions from visitors to his site from around the world. Every day, a new question involving alternative medicine is answered, and visitors can submit their own at DrWeil.com (http://www.drweil.com).

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Washington (dpa) - Psychologists around the world are noticing an increase in reported cases of depression. Thankfully, depression is better understood today than ever before. The Web's Mental Help Net, at http://mentalhelp.net, is arguably the largest resource on the Internet that deals exclusively with causes, symptoms, and treatments of depression. The site offers news, articles, and a virtual community.

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Washington (dpa) - Connoisseurs of European history will be delighted at the primary texts on display at the University of Hanover's Internet Archive of Texts and Documents (http://history.hanover.edu/texts.html). There, you can read primary material that led to our understanding of the Italian Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Reformation, among other things. This archive of textual reference material, once gargantuan in scale, has been reduced to a few facets of European and Asian history, but expansions are planned. (dpa)