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Garden Planning Guide

A full calendar of classes and plant sales in five counties! Check it out here.

Call your local Master Gardener Volunteer Helpline

Orange County — 18 Seward Ave., Middletown. Calls are answered "live" by master gardeners 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, April-October. All other times, leave a message at 343-0664 or e-mail mghelpline@cornell.edu.

Sullivan County — 69 Ferndale-Loomis Road, Liberty. Calls are answered 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, 292-6180.

Ulster County — 10 Westbrook Lane, Kingston. Calls are answered 9 a.m.-noon Monday, Wednesday and Friday, March-October; 9 a.m.-noon Fridays only, November-February. Otherwise, leave a message, 340-3478.

Dutchess County - Horticulture Hotline & Diagnostic Lab is open M-W-F from 9-noon, April through October. Call 677-5067.

Master gardeners are also available in the Cooperative Extension offices for soil testing and plant and insect identification. The cost is $5 for plant and insect identification and $3 for a soil pH test.

Discussion Forum

Tomato diseases 5 Replies

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General gardening questions 3 Replies

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Hudson Valley Seed Library

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Comment by greg draiss on April 11, 2010 at 8:36am: Lifelong gardener, garden buyer for Adams Fairacre Farms, localist

Comment by Anya Raskin on March 31, 2010 at 1:24pm: I really, strongly considered buying the heat mat and then didn't - I knew I'd regret it.

Comment by Adam Weiss on March 31, 2010 at 1:01pm: 10 days would be a point to reconsider. I am using the combo of the heat mat and the ultraviolet lights and have had very strong success. My cucumber seedlings germinated in 3 days

Comment by Anya Raskin on March 31, 2010 at 12:53pm: How long would you wait for tomatoes and peppers to germinate before giving up hope?

Comment by Adam Weiss on March 30, 2010 at 5:13pm: I look forward to being a new member of seedling group!
My wife and I own Pike Lane Bed and Breakfast in Woodstock, NY as well as Pike Lane gardens. I am a master gardener and will be teaching a workshop series on Creating your own organic vegetable garden at our Bed and Breakfast this spring.
I have 300 cells growing under uptraviolet lights as we speak. I am passionate about vegetables and look forward to asking questions and adding any additional incite.

regards,
adam weiss

Comment by Virginia Luppino on March 30, 2010 at 4:01pm: A great BioDynamic remedy for fungus and damping off of seedlings is to make a fermented Equisetum (Horsetail) tea. Here is a link to a recipe I posted last year on my Hudson Valley Garden Confidential. Equisetum should be coming up soon all around the valley.
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs028/1102604630099/archive/1102646133881.html

Comment by Schuller's Dairy Deliveries on March 30, 2010 at 3:46pm: Jay - Would love to know more about the Blue Mexican Corn. It sounds very interesting. How would I go about getting the seeds for that? We are located in Warwick.

Comment by Jay Levine on March 22, 2010 at 7:22pm: For anyone looking for seeds, I saved seeds from a number of my veggies from last year. I especially have a ton of Waltham Butternut squash but also Detroit dark red beet, Red Russian Kale, Hungarian Yellow Pepper (medium hot), Blue Mexican Corn (a sweet corn developed in upstate NY) and a few others. If you're interested let me know.

I also teaching an Organic Gardening class at Red Hook Continuing education starting April 6 and if there is enough interest. a continuing , hands on organic gardening class in my home garden. You can visit my website at www.hudsonvalleybackyardfarm.com for more details.

Comment by Anya Raskin on February 3, 2010 at 11:46am: Blog > http://www.stilllifewithwoodstove.blogspot.com/

I would love to be part of gardening parties - especially when i start killing my seedlings because I have bad temperature control in my home, and will want to trade my extra tomatoes for your extra peppers, or something of the sort.

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Comment by Meghan E. Murphy on February 3, 2010 at 10:50am: I just read this great blog on garden planning. Anyone interested in having a garden planning party?