Just like taking your pets to the vet, you can take your garden to the doctor.  The best part is you don't have to set the in the waiting room, Cornell Cooperative Extension Oneida County's Vegetable MD is all online.

The site offers insights and tips from the beginning to the end of the gardening season. How to choose the correct seeds to start your garden, managing pests and diseases through growth and how to finish the harvest.  Tips that pertain to the current season:

  • Trellis vining vegetable cucumber and squash plants.
  • Stake indeterminate tomato pants.
  • Remove suckers, (the new growth), at the base of the tomato plant to help produce larger fruits.
  • Watch for tomato fungal problems such as early and late blight and Septoria leaf spot.
You'll find the Vegetable MD online at Cornell's website.  And the Master Gardeners at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oneida County answer your flower and garden questions on the Horticulture Hot Line, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to noon at (315) 736-3394.

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