Extension has hotline to help gardeners

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County’s Master Gardeners will help anxious gardeners prepare for the 2017 growing season through their Horticulture Hotline, which changes its hours to three days a week on March, 1.

Experts at the hotline, located at the CCEUC Education Center at Kingston Plaza, will be available to answer home horticulture questions Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to noon from now through October. The phone number is (845) 340-3478.

The Horticulture Hotline offers free researchbased information and advice to more than 1,000 home gardeners annually. The Master Gardener hotline provides the public with free gardening advice.

Also offered are pH soil testing for $3 and plant/ insect/disease identification for $5.

For more information, visit http://ulster.cce.cornell.edu/gardening.