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Master Gardeners Will Be On Hand at Cold Spring Farmers Market
Putnam gardening guide available for purchase
If you're coming to the Cold Spring Farmers Market, you'll find the Master Gardener volunteers of Cornell Cooperative Extension ready to answer your gardening questions. Get advice on low-impact lawn care; eco-friendly pest control; biodiversity; composting; growing vegetables, annuals, perennials and trees; and much more.
You can bring a soil sample and have its pH and texture analyzed while you get advice about planting tomatoes, keeping deer away from your rhododendrons and pruning your hydrangeas.
Also available at the market will be "Planting Putnam: A Guide to Gardening" by the Master Gardener Volunteers. Whether you're starting a new garden, planting trees, working on your lawn or struggling with deer, you're bound to have questions. How can you take advantage of the rocks on your property? When should you fertilize? How can you grow herbs for those exciting new recipes? Some
answers can be found in standard gardening books, and there are great quantities of information about gardening online. But what's good information - and what is just hearsay? And what works here in Putnam County?
Now - in one volume - is the help you need. Written and researched by the Master Gardener volunteers of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Putnam County, this little book shows you how to make an alpine garden out of your rock pile. Gives you growing instructions for a culinary herb garden. Lays out a fertilizing schedule that will produce a healthy lawn and keep excess nutrients and pesticides out of our lakes. Best of all, you know you can trust the information to be reliable, because it's based on Cornell University research as well as Master Gardener experience.
This book will be available Saturday July 1 - 8:30 to 1 pm, at the Cold Spring Farmers Market. Copies are also
for sale at Cornell Cooperative Extension, 1 Geneva Road, Terravest Corporate Park, Brewster. Or call 845-2786738.
Whether you're interested in the guide or in speaking one-one-one with an expert, Master Gardener volunteers will be on duty at the market on the first Saturday of the month July 1, August 5, September 2 and October 7, from 8:30 am to 1 pm. The Cold Spring Farmers Market is on Route 9D, at "The Nest" parking lot, just south of Route 301.
Master Gardener volunteers and the professional horticulture staff of Cornell Cooperative Extension are also available every weekday from 9 am to noon by calling 845278-6738. The Horticulture Hotline will answer your questions and provide timely, university tested research about starting seeds, taking care of perennials, garden design, lawn care, pest control and more.
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