‘Weeding Wednesdays’ in Minns Garden
Minns gardeners Addy Smith-Reiman and Pat MacRae invite you to join them every Wednesday in July and August from noon to 1 p.m. Spend your lunch hour checking out what’s in bloom while helping ...
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‘Weeding Wednesdays’ in Minns Garden
Late Blight – A serious disease killing tomatoes and potatoes this year
Update: 4/13/2010: See new post for 2010 season, Avoid the late blight blues. Update: 1/7/2010: Late Blight Q&A from the Northeast IPM Center. Update: 8/11/2009: New factsheet from NYSIPM program: Late Blight: A Serious ...
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Bumper berry crop
In an article in the Ithaca Journal, Cool weather provides large, juicy berries at u-pick farms, Department of Horticulture chair Marvin Pritts (right) explains why this year’s strawberry crop is so good: ‘It always ...
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Felder Rushing coming to Living Sculpture Conference
Update: 7/14/2009. From Marcia Eames-Sheavly: Join us at noon on Wednesday, July 22 on the patio adjacent to Kennedy Hall where Felder will give an impromptu presentation from his truck. This presentation is free ...
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Too much fertilizer has consequences
Laurie Drinkwater is one of a group of 17 authors of Nutrient Imbalances in Agricultural Development in the current issue of Science (324:5934). According to a Cornell Chronicle article, Midwest farmers overfertilized their corn ...
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Buy produce from Dilmun Hill
Updated 9/22/2009: Look for the stand outside Mann Library every Tuesday from 3 to 6 p.m. through the growing season. (Rain location: Mann Library Lobby.) This week’s harvest includes: Salad Mix Kale Swiss Chard ...
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High tunnels extend harvests
Lengthening the growing season in the June 19 Ithaca Journal extols the virtues of high tunnels. These unheated, metal-framed, plastic-covered structures allow growers in cool climates like New York to extend their harvest season ...
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Future wine industry leaders profiled
In Next Generation of Vintners Ready to Pick, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle profiles Viticulture and Enology junior Ben Stamp and two CALS alumni as future leaders of the Finger Lakes wine industry. The ...
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Garden-based learning in Belize featured in Ezra magazine
Horticulture students head to Belize to show how gardens enrich schools (page down to second story) was one of the stories profiling projects demonstrating Cornell’s global impact in the Summer 2009 issue of Ezra, ...
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Public horticulture career video features Michael Dosmann (PhD ’07)
Michael Dosmann (PhD ’07), now curator of living collections at Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum, is one of the professionals featured in a series of videos by the Center for Public Horticulture. I wear 365 ...
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