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Let us help you get started with vegetable gardening!

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

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Our resources on lawns and ornamentals can help make your home gardens more beautiful.

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What's eating your plants? We can help you find out, and suggest ways to control it!

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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!

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2018 Vegetable Varieties

Check out this list from Cornell's Garden Based Learning Program to see what varieties they recommend as being well-suited to NY State gardens for 2018!

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

Pests & IPM

IPM is a system for managing pest problems using a range of safe, least-toxic methods. Find IPM resources here!

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Soils & Climate

Your garden soil and our local climate have a big impact on every aspect of growing plants. Find resources here on soil texture, organic matter, soil testing and more.

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Last updated March 3, 2020

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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/ 

Visit Cornell University's The Lost Ladybug Project online and learn how your photos can help scientists keep track of both new and native Ladybug species in your neighborhood.

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Gardening Videos


Cornell Cooperative Extension's garden experts will be offering tips every Friday on WETM 18 News at Noon.
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Cornell Cooperative Extension
Steuben County

20 East Morris Street
Bath, New York 14810
TEL: (607) 664-2300
FAX: (607) 776-9103
steuben@cornell.edu

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