Flowers in Minns Garden, Cornell Campus. Echinacea. Cornell University Photography.

Image by Lindsay France

Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)

Image by Schuyler County

Visit our Teaching Garden in Montour Falls!

Image by Sandy Repp

Let us help you get started with vegetable gardening!

Master Gardener volunteer conducts a pH soil test on a soil sample

Image by Sandy Repp

A soil pH test is a great first step to successful gardening.

Striped cucumber beetle Acalymma vittatum (Fabricius, 1775) from Bugwood.org

Image by David Cappaert, MSU, Bugwood.org

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

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schuyler County is your resource for information on soils, site improvement, plant selection, proper plant care, eco-friendly practices, integrated pest management, composting and so much more! We offer free or low-cost gardening classes and tours all year long, and opportunities to share your love of gardening as a volunteer! Call us or come by today!

***As you begin your garden clean-up this spring, please consider saving any dry, hollow stems such as angelica, sow thistle,, or Japanese knotweed. We need them in the Teaching Garden to replenish pollinator homes that were destroyed in the garden incident. You may drop them off at the garden (place them in the damaged Pollinator Hotel) or save them until our office is open again. Thank you!****

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!

Emerald Ash Borer

Learn how to identify the Emerald Ash Borer, monitor your Ash trees, detect and report possible EAB in your trees, and more, with resources we've compiled on this site.

Master Gardeners

Master Gardener volunteers share their knowledge and love of gardening with the community through a variety of outreach activities and events. Join us!

Community Gardens

The Cornell Cooperative Extension - Schuyler County has created many local public gardens for the community

Contact

Roger Ort
Local Foods and Agriculture Educator
rlo28@cornell.edu
607-535-7161

Last updated March 23, 2020

Gardening

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.

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://idl.entomology.cornell.edu/

Managing Bee Swarms

The New York swarm season is May and June then again in September. We’re sharing this massive directory of beekeepers who catch swarms and perform colony extractions across the state.

https://pollinator.cals.cornell.edu/r…/removing-your-swarms/ bee swarm