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Home vegetable garden

Food Gardening

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Cornell Resources

Cornell's home gardening website has links to excellent resources, including Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners, Vegetable MD Online, Vegetable Disease Factsheets, and how to growing guides for more than 50 different vegetables. http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/homegardening/index.html

Seed Saving

This Cornell University Library Guide on "Seed Saving" compiled by NAME includes links to relevant Cornell University initiatives, Conservation & Biodiversity Groups, Grower Resources/Directories/Support, Industry/Trade Groups & Resources, Seed Libraries, Seed Sovereignty, Other Seed Saving Organizations/Networks/Events, and General Learning Materials on saving seeds.

Vegetable and Herb Gardening in Containers 

Container gardens are suitable for many lifestyles. Novice and advanced gardeners will enjoy the convenience of growing plants in places that might be thought of as impossible or unthinkable. Additionally, container gardens are an opportunity for creative expression in small spaces.

For the full resource and container size, visit this website. 

Last updated April 28, 2020

Food Gardening

Seed Viability Information

image of fact sheet from Virginia Cooperative Extension on "Seed Viability" (230px wide) for use as sidebar image link in fact sheet.

This handout from Virginia Cooperative Extension covers how to save and start seeds, and includes a list of how long you can expect various types of vegetable seeds to remain viable.

Find Your Zone!

2012 USDA Hardiness Zone Map

The 2012 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map helps gardeners and growers determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location. For the first time, the map is available as an interactive GIS-based map, for which a broadband Internet connection is recommended. Users may also simply type in a ZIP Code and find the hardiness zone for that area.

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Home Gardening Resources

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the “JUST PLANT IT, NY!” campaign is making free and available to the public resources from the CCE Master Gardener Volunteer program and Cornell Garden-Based Learning program for new vegetable gardeners, with time and access to seeds, soil and a few low-budget tools!

Do you have a college student home from school that needs something to do, or a school aged child going stir crazy? Put their energy and yours into starting a garden for physical, mental and environmental health with the following resources, and know we are growing through this together!

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