COOPERATIVE EXTENSION INFORMATION

[John]

In order to assist our valued customers who have specific garden questions related to their local weather and environmental conditions and the best varieties of vegetables and fruits to grow in a specific climate, we at EarthBox recommend contacting a Cooperative Extension Agency in your state. A Master Gardener can recommend the best varieties of fruits and vegetables for your area and season along with a wealth of horticulural information.
  LINKS TO EXTENSION OFFICES IN EVERY STATE:
  http://stevens.wsu.edu/Agriculture/coopext_sites.htm

  LINKS TO COUNTY EXTENSION OFFICES IN FLORIDA:
  http://solutionsforyourlife.ufl.edu/map/index.html

  LINKS TO COUNTY EXTENSION OFFICES IN GEORGIA
  http://www.caes.uga.edu/extension

[Miss August]

This site has a list of links to a comprehensive online vegetable planting guide for states in the US, Virgin Islands, Australia, Alberta Canada, and United Kingdom.  There's also a link to the Mother Earth News comprehensive vegetable planting chart.

http://vegetablegardens.suite101.com/blog.cfm/free_vegetable_planting_guide

[alicemagooey]

hmmm..,my state is not listed..
in the suite 101 article .. also ,from the last post, i
also could not click on the Mother Earth News Article.. said 404 file not found.

Per Johns original Post, yes, my state extension information is listed there.
Thank you John..

perhaps the second addition to the information ( second post) should be checked , modified,and reposted
by the poster ?

alice

 
alice

[John]

Hello Alice,

I'm glad you found the information for your Cooperative Extension.  I posted all the links I could locate because many of our customers cannot find the phone numbers or links.  In our office I created a list of numbers for the Extension in every county, in every state, throughout the U.S.  I have been a Master Gardener for almost 4 years and really enjoy learning while helping people. When I cannot identify a disease or insect in my garden, I take a sample to their office; they have the tools to do it.  Proper identification is the key to treatment!

[cstogner]

I did not see South Carolina listed either, so below is a link to the Clemson University Extension for Vegetable Gardening, where you may find what you are looking for:
http://www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/plants/vegetables/gardening/ 

[MarysGarden]

7/3/09 Tomato blight spreading early in NY state

Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen Northeast states as a destructive plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the United States.

Late blight -- the same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s -- occurs sporadically in the Northeast, but this year's outbreak is more severe because infected plants have been widely distributed by big-box retail stores and rainy weather has hastened the spores' airborne spread.

Plants have been removed from stores throughout New England and New York. Late blight also has been identified in all other East Coast states except Georgia, as well as Alabama, West Virginia and Ohio.

A spokesperson for the New York State Agriculture and Markets Department told CBS 6 the department received its first report of tomato blight about a week ago -- much earlier than usual for the state to be seeing such cases.

The state is prepared to take regulatory action as soon as it gets a verifiable date, said Jessica Chittenden. In the meantime, the Cornell Cooperative Extension is taking reports of blight from farmers, consumers and retailers.

There is no public health risk, Chittenden emphasized. Tomato blight kills plants before they can bear fruit.

Symptoms include large olive-green or brown spots on the tops of leaves and white fungus underneath. Experts say home gardeners should destroy infected plants to prevent spores from spreading to commercial farms.

If you'd like to report tomato blight, contact your local Cornell University Cooperative Extension contact below:

Clinton/Essex counties: Anita Deming, 518-962-4810
Franklin/St. Lawrence counties: Stephen Canner, 315-379-9192

Jefferson County: Mike Hunter, 315-788-8450

Lewis County: Joe Lawrence, 315-376-5270

[CeaseFire]

Late blight also has been identified in all other East Coast states except Georgia, as well as Alabama,

In Mississippi, our plants are produced by Bonnie Plants in Alabama.

[mjb8743]

Late blight also has been identified in all other East Coast states except Georgia, as well as Alabama,

In Mississippi, our plants are produced by Bonnie Plants in Alabama.

And Bonnie Plants is the distributor to all the big box stores here in NJ...

[joy112854]

Now ya'll have me scared.  I bought about 6 bonnie bell watermelon plants from Kmart and Lowes, need I be worried?  I have about 20 tomato plants producing really well.  Have not had any BER at all on any of them thus far.  My cukes have become bug food pretty much by now and are producing these yellow cukes now and they are bitter and might just oust the cuke plants.  I used a lot of different gardening methods this time, being the beginner, I have made some mistakes, learned a lot and come to lots of conclusions.  I definately like gardening in the Fall/Winter and Spring, no bugs to deal with and nice weather, summer is awful - too hot, too many bugs.  Of course, I missed the horned catepillar this year!!!!  I have decided that the EB is the best over everything else I've used.  I had mine up on a huge yard sale table and picnic bench, liked it as it kept them at waist level for tending and no bugs.  Just got some red mulch covers from the EB people, are they good for everything or just maters? 
joy

[Perky]

This is for all the Virginia-based EB'ers who use Virginia Tech's Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE):

I have just learned that the VCE is being restructured from 102 local county offices to 22 regional offices.  Each county will have the option to partially or completely fund a local county office; however, having a county office is NOT a given.  Evidently the budget for the extension program has shrunk from $65 million to $55 milion over the past 3 years.

For more information click here:  http://www.ext.vt.edu/restructuring/index.html

As one who applied to the VCE's Master Gardener program,  which was canceled due to lack of potential participants, and as one who lives in a rural county, I find the restructuring a tad un-nerving.

Anyway, I just that ya'll ought to know.
Perky

[writeone]

following the link above didn't get me to the needed guide -- here it is
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/vh021

[kathy]

Many of these links are no longer valid:  for a search for any or all of the extension offices, use this link: http://www.extension.org/search

[gardendoc]

I'm kind of partial to Mississippi Extension Service http://msucares.com/

[movrshakr]

I'm kind of partial to Mississippi Extension Service http://msucares.com/

Wonder why?