Long Islanders are fortunate to have a relatively mild climate that affords many options in planning a home garden. We are very proud of our green lawns, perennial gardens, ornamental trees, pond and container gardens, not to mention our vegetable gardens.

Cornell Cooperative Extension offers research-based support to gardeners with online horticulture leaflets, gardening schools and master gardener classes. Homeowners can bring soil and plant samples to our diagnostic labs for help determining treatment or amendments. And our youngest residents can learn to plant their own gardens at the Children’s Garden at the Suffolk County Farm in Yaphank.

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Late Blight Found on Tomato and Potato in a Garden in Setauket
24/06/2010
The disease that destroyed many tomato and potato plants last year has been found again on LI!
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Cornell and Suffolk County Launch New Lawn Care Website
19/08/2010
The purpose of the website is to educate Suffolk County residents (including lawn and landscape professionals) about the importance of groundwater protection.
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