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Master Gardener Plant sale at the Lilac Festival

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Horticulture

Cornell Cooperative Extension is your local connection to the research, information and expertise of your land-grant university. The Horticulture Program provides research-based ornamental horticulture information for home gardeners and commercial horticulture businesses.

Home Garden:                                                  Commercial Horticulture:

  • Home landscape lawns                           * Lawn care landscape
  • Flower and vegetable gardens                * Sports turf
  • Trees & shrubs                                      * Garden retail
  • Plant diseases                                       * Ornamental Horticulture Greenhouses
  • Insect pests in and outside the home      * School and municipal ornamental horticulture
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Synthetic Sports Surface Field Day

Location: East Irondequoit High School, 2350 E. Ridge Road, 14622 * Scheduled Topic: It’s All About Safety, Equipment Essentials, Practitioner’s Experiences

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Master Gardener Garage and Plant Sale

Garden Treasures - Gently Used and Plants. Saturday, June 9th, 9 AM - 1 PM.Come check out our sale on June 9th from 9 AM until 1 PM!

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2019 Spring BN Book Fair

Book-fair at Pittsford Barnes & Noble

Featuring our Master Gardeners! Be sure to join us!

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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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Gardens in the Face of a Changing Climate

This detailed guide will teach you how to have a "climate-friendly" garden. It provides ways to reduce chemical inputs, improve compost, and how to use cover crops to increase soil health.

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Diagnostic Lab

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County provides a range of diagnostic services to identify plant diseases/insects, weeds, other insects and soil pH.

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Last updated September 26, 2019

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