Horticulture and Natural Resources

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County

Horticulture

Horticulture and Natural Resources
Focus Areas: Consumer Horticulture Commercial Hortculture Forestry/Natural Resources Agroforestry	Services: Soil Analysis Insect and Disease Diagnosis Plant Identification Site Visits
Master Gardeners	Publications: GreenPiece: Landscaping Advice Column Knapweed and Bedstraw Management Project Results
Guide to Locally Grown Products NYS 4-H Forestry Information	Related Issues: Environmental Issues Honey Bees Wildlife Poisonous Plants Growing Organically Weeds USDA Hardiness Zone Map
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Services:

Soil Analysis
If you have soil that needs a pH analysis you can bring it in or mail it to the office and we will conduct a pH test free of charge.

If you have soil that you would like to have tested for nutrient composition call or stop in at the county office and we will suplly a soil test bag, which is then mailed to cornell for complete analysis. The bags come with directions on how to take the soil samples. There is a charge for this service. Cornell Nutrient Analysis Labratories http://cnal.cals.cornell.edu/.

Insect and Disease Diagnosis
If you have a sick plant and need to know what the cause is or the identitiy of an insect or fungus, submit a sample to us and we will tell you what it is and how to control it. We only conduct visual analyses, we do not culture samples. If you have a sample that requires culturing or that we cannot identify it can be sent to COrnell for anaylsis, there is a minimum of $25 charge for this service. Cornell's Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic http://PlantClinic.cornell.edu/Default.htm or Cornell's Insect Diagnosis Lab http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/Extension/DiagnosticLab/DiagnosticLab.php.

Plant Identification
Whether it's forplant control, propagation or just becasue you're curious- we wilil try to identify everything that is brought in, garden plants, weeds, trees, seeds, fruit, etc. If you would like to mail in a sample please include as much of the part to beidentified as possible and a description of where you found the plant (growing conditions).

Site Visits
If you require on-the-ground technical assistance please contact Rebecca Hargrave at 607-334-5841 x 16 or jrh45@cornell.edu. We are more than willing to come out and help you in whatever way we can.

This page was last updated on Thursday, March 27, 2008

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