2013 VVT | Citizen Science – Vegetable Variety for Gardeners

One of the things we are doing this season to promote our resources and collaborate statewide is a vegetable variety and ecological gardening demo, encouraging others to rate varieties and use the website at http://vegvariety.cce.cornell.edu.

What this essentially entails is planting vegetable varieties in a 15′x 15′ public place along with demonstration of features of an ecological garden (cover crops, companion planting, mulching, attracting beneficials, etc).

The project will begin in mid-March, when staff will work on setting up beds planting some seeds (peas) outdoors and inside.  We plan to continue this effort in future years, using the same space and changing the varieties up.

List of 2012 demonstration sites:

The following counties are participating the the demo trial. Check back for a map and descriptions soon! Contact an office to learn more or find out how to visit.

Schuyler
Chautauqua
Saratoga
Schenectady
Franklin
Oneida
Orange
Seneca
Cayuga
Wayne
Orleans
Oswego
Chenango
Broome
Cortland
Westchester
Putman
Nassau
Suffolk
Dutchess
Herkimer

Video of installation of the campus garden:

Articles:

The Seneca County Master Gardeners were recently featured in the Finger Lakes Times in an article about their garden.

4/27/12 article about the gardens in the Cornell Daily Sun

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Info for Participants: CLICK HERE