Look out for late blight
This week, late blight was confirmed in gardens in New York’s Chenango and Livingston Counties. If you’d like to stay up to date on where late blight has been detected, check out the new ...
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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Weed competition ‘Like CSI – only with weeds’
FREEVILLE, N.Y. – The staff members at Cornell University’s Thompson Vegetable Research Farm usually spend their summer killing weeds. But in one field this season, they planted them. That’s because the facility was the ...
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Continuing ed course teaches viticulture and enology
From a July 23 Ithaca Journal story about the Cornell University Viticulture and Enology Experience offered as part of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions: The 13 participants in the Cornell University ...
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Container design competition results
The seventh annual Kathy Pufahl Memorial Container Design Competition was held July 20, 2010 at Cornell’s Bluegrass Lane Horticultural Research Facility, Ithaca, NY. Kathy (right), who founded Beds and Borders, Inc., Laurel, N.Y., was ...
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Flower Open House this weekend
From Melissa Kitchen: Looking for something fun to do this weekend? Come to the Flower Open House at Bluegrass Lane, Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.! We have 1000+ annuals and ...
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Basil downy mildew is back
More basil downy mildew images. Basil downy mildew – a new fungal disease that plagued commercial and home-garden crops in 2008 and 2009 – is again sending unlucky basil plants to an early grave ...
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Hamilton, Mt. Pleasant instructors in Cornell prisoner education program
Post-doc research associate Cyd Hamilton and faculty member Jane Mt. Pleasant are instructors in the Cornell Prison Education Program and featured on the cover of this week’s Ithaca Times. Pick up a copy or ...
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Cornell hosts world series of weeds July 27
July 12 Cornell Chronicle article: Done in by dandelions, foiled by milfoil, run over by clover? It’s time for the world series of weeds. Cornell will host the 2010 Northeastern Collegiate Weed Science Contest ...
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Kevin Maloney talks fruit breeding in Staff Notes video
An interview with Kevin Maloney, a Geneva-based research assistant in the Department of Horticulture, where cutting-edge research on apples is making the news. New episodes of Staff Notes premiere on Thursdays . Also in ...
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Agroforestry Tour July 20
Do you want to learn how to use your forest for more than just firewood and timber? If so, join Professor Ken Mudge (right) at the MacDaniels Nut Grove, located in the Cornell Plantations ...
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