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Gardening Fact Sheets

Native Plants for Gardening and Landscaping
  • Guide for Native Planting from NYS DEC
Indoor Pests
  • Bed Bugs
  • Beetles Infesting Flour and Grain
  • Boxelder Bug
  • Carpenter Ants
  • Cockroaches
  • Indian Meal Moth
  • Tick Control in NYS

Flower Gardens
  • Bulbs of Summer & Overwintering

House Plants
  • Houseplant Foliage Yellowing
  • House Plants Growing Requirements

Lawn
  • Lawn Care Basics
  • Lawn Fertilizer
  • Lawn Renovation (Home)
  • Controlling Grubs
  • Dollar Spot of Turfgrass
  • Slime Molds
  • Snow Molds of Turfgrass

Trees
  • Bagworms
  • Best Way to Plant Trees
  • Care of Live Christmas Trees
  • Emerald Ash Borer
  • Fertilizing Trees & Shrubs
  • Finding an Arborist
  • Gypsy Moth Information
  • Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
  • How to Correctly Prune a Tree
  • Pruning Ornamental Shrubs & Vines
  • Shrubs for Difficult Sites

Vegetables
  • Soil Preparation & Fertilization for Home Flower & Vegetable Gardens
  • Fertilizing Established Vegetable Gardens
  • Late Blight of Tomato
  • Starting Vegetables From Seed

Weeds
  • Giant Hogweed
  • Poison Ivy
  • Pale Swallowwort

Wildlife
  • 2019 Bee Swarm Collectors
  • Asian Worms
  • Reducing Deer Damage

Contact

Elizabeth Berkeley
Lab Diagnostician
eab11@cornell.edu
585-753-2553

Last updated August 14, 2020

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  • Diagnostic Lab
  • Gathering of Gardeners 2020
  • Home Site Assessment
  • Speakers Bureau
  • 2020 30-Hour Pesticide Cert. Course
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  • Compost Resources
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  • Gardening Factsheets
  • Master Gardeners

Additional Resources

New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NY DEC)

Conservationist Magazine (from DEC)

Green Living (from DEC)

New York Forest Owners Association

Monroe County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD)

Monroe County Parks Department

Cornell AgriTech

New York State Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Urban Horticulture Institute

Soil Health from US Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)

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Monroe County

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Rochester, NY 14617
TEL: 585-753-2550
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