Homepage → Regional U. S. Gardening Links and Information → Informational Resources for New York Gardeners

Informational Resources for New York Gardeners

Planted January 1, 2000
Last tended to on October 19, 2024
Reading time: 3 minutes

New York Frost Dates (Please Check Back)

Cornell Cooperative Extension

• Local Extension Office Lookup
• Cornell Garden-Based Learning
• Extension Master Gardener Program

Recommended Books:

• “The New England Gardener’s Year: A Month-by-Month Guide for Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Upstate New York,” by Reeser Manley. Gardeners will find advice and photos for adapting to any microclimate or situation including shade; wet soil; coastal landscapes; container, raised-bed, and extended-season gardening; and much more. Its photo-essay tours of outstanding owner-maintained gardens throughout New England, its focus on organic methods and native plants, and its guidance on integrating gardens of every variety into their surrounding landscapes.

• “Mid-Atlantic Gardener’s Handbook: Your Complete Guide: Select, Plan, Plant, Maintain, Problem-Solve - Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington D.C.,” by Katie Elzer-Peters. The book includes plant selection – ornamental landscape and edible plants – and “when-to” gardening maintenance information. Planting and growing information for edibles is also included, along with plant selections for the most common plant categories.

• “Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, 2nd Edition,” by Eliot Coleman. If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat.

• “Fresh from the Garden: An Organic Guide to Growing Vegetables, Berries, and Herbs in Cold Climates,” by John Whitman. Fresh is simply best. To get the tastiest, most nutritious produce, you have to grow your own, and in a cold climate this presents unique challenges. Fresh from the Garden will help you extend the growing season to produce the best vegetables, berries, and herbs, right in your own backyard. The guide includes more than 150 edible plants and helps you decide which varieties to choose; where and how to plant, tend, and harvest them; and what to do with your bounty. Fresh from the Garden is a clear, concise (yet comprehensive) guide, with nutrition information tables and hundreds of helpful color photographs. A gardening text book!

Organizations:

• Federated Garden Clubs of New York State, Inc.
• The New York Flora Association
• Finger Lakes Native Plant Society
• Long Island Botanical Society
• Torrey Botanical Society

Places to Visit:

• Adirondack History Center – Church Street, Elizabethtown, NY 12932
• Alice T. Miner Colonial Museum – 9618 State Route 9, Chazy, NY 12921
• America’s First Shaker Settlement – Albany-Shaker Road, Albany, NY 12211
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden – 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225
• Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Garden Society – 2655 S. Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14218
• Buffalo Olmsted Park Conservancy – Elmwood Avenue and Amherst, Mailing - 2318 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214
• Cornell Botanic Gardens – Lewis Headquarters Building, One Plantations Road, Ithaca, NY 14850
• Fenimore Farm & Country Village – 5775 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, NY 13326
• Fort Klock Historic Restoration – Route 5, St. Johnsville, New York 13452
• George Eastman House and Gardens – 900 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14607
• Highland Park Conservancy – 180 Reservoir Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620
• Locust Grove, Samuel F. B. Morse Historic Site – 2683 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
• Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden – 421 E. 61st Street, New York, NY 10021
• New York Botanical Garden – 200 Street & Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458
• Queens Botanical Garden – 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY 11355
• Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden – 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301

Copyright © 1998 - 2024 - All rights reserved
WebGrower.com℠ is a service mark of Victory Horticultural Group, LLC.
• Privacy Statement •

This site participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.