Community Horticulture

Gardening Education

• Spring Classes at the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden
  Choose one topic:
  • Topic 1 Organic Gardening and Weeds: How to get Rid of Them
  • Topic 2 Making a Twig Arbor
  Where: Demonstration Garden at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, corner Westinghouse Road and Gardner Road, Horseheads, NY
  When: May 6, 10 AM to 12 PM, rain or shine
  Cost: $5 per person
  Registration: required; call the Master Gardener help line at 734 4453
   
  
• Big Flats Community Center Gardening Education with Cornell Extension Master Gardeners
  Sessions are on Thursdays and begin at 6:30 PM
  
  • May 11
    Container gardening continues its popularity. The design of a planter or window box is a marriage of similar plants into a cohesive arrangement. Join Master Gardener Eileen Patocka for tips for fertilizing and keeping the plants looking good throughout the season.
  • June 8
    Many of us have physical challenges that impede our gardening activity. You may know of someone with a greater disability than your own. Techniques for adapting tools for those with disabilities will be demonstrated. Gardening styles that are friendlier will be shared.
     
    
• Gardening through the seasons: spring | summer | fall | winter
   
  
• Community Gardens
   
  
• Master Gardener - ask a question!
   
  
• Horticulture Web Resources
   
  
• Citizen Pruner program