Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
A soil pH test is a great first step to successful gardening.
What's eating your plants? We can help you find out, and suggest ways to control it!
Learn skills and share what you know, as a volunteer in the CCE Master Gardener program.
Gardening
CCEDC works to address the needs of the gardening community through education, classes, demonstration landscapes which focus on water conservation, best management practices and edible landscaping to supplement food expenses. The diagnostic lab offers integrated pest management options and solutions to commercial and consumer questions pertaining to agriculture and horticulture. Many wonderful, trained volunteers help to carry out our programs.
Food Gardening
There are few things better than a bright red tomato or a cool green cucumber fresh from vine! Learn here about growing your own food in your garden at home!
Making Compost!
Find resources here on how to start and maintain a home compost bin! Learn how to turn food and yard waste into "black gold" for your garden!
Invasive Plants
From garlic mustard to multiflora rose and everything in between, learn here about invasive plants in our area.
Lawns & Ornamentals
Come spring and summer, our extension educators are busy helping residents get the most out of their lawns and gardens. Click here for more information on maintaining yours!
Contact
Joyce Tomaselli
Community Horticulture Resource Educator
jdt225@cornell.edu
(845) 677-8223 x134
Last updated March 30, 2018
2018 Advisory Committee
Daniel Briggs; Board Representative
Sarah Lyons Chase; Vice Chair
Mike Fargione; Board Representative
Jean O'Riordan
Dr. Mark Condon
Cathy Lane; Chair
Find Your Zone!
The 2012 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map helps gardeners and growers determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location. For the first time, the map is available as an interactive GIS-based map, for which a broadband Internet connection is recommended. Users may also simply type in a ZIP Code and find the hardiness zone for that area.
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September 2018 Board Meeting
Monday, September 17
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM -
November 2018 Board Meeting
Monday, November 19
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM -
December 2018 Board Meeting
Monday, December 17
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Insect Diagnostic Lab
For
more information about an insect, or how to deal with an insect problem
in or around your home or garden, contact the Insect Diagnostic Lab, a
program of Cornell Cooperative Extension in the Department of
Entomology. For a $25 fee, an insect or related arthropod can be shipped
to the lab, or a detailed photo can be emailed, for expert
identification. Diagnostician Jason Dombroskie, Ph.D. has many years
ofexperience identifying insects and other arthropods. More information
about this service, including fact sheets on common outdoor and indoor
insects, can be found at http://entomology.cornell.edu/IDL
Vegetable Gardening A-Z
