Get gardening tips for March in the Digging In newsletter. It’s published by Master Gardeners of Cornell Cooperative Extension in Orleans County, Survey your yard and garden Check your houseplants Your houseplants will begin perking up as we have longer daylight. They will need a little more water, and it’s a good time to start fertilizing them again. This is also a good time to consider pruning your houseplants and repotting any that have outgrown their containers. Get ready to…...
Rain barrel, composter sale by Erie & Niagara counties
The 2026 Erie/Niagara County Rain Barrel and Composter Sale is now underway. You don’t have to live in those counties; anyone may buy the items. You can order now. Orders must be picked up between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday, June 6 at ECC North, Parking Lot #5 If you don’t pick up your items, they will be donated for educational purposes. See how to load your car here. Backyard composting is an excellent way to reduce trash going to landfills…...
‘Spring forward’ on Sunday
by Connie Oswald Stofko On March 8, you can go outside after dinner and see your garden in the daylight! But you will have lost an hour of sleep the night before. Daylight Saving Time is this Sunday, March 8. Remember to “spring forward” & move your clocks forward an hour. The idea of Daylight Saving Time is to allow people to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer. That makes sense, I guess. In the summer,…...
Get the word out about–ugh!–lesser celandine
by Connie Oswald Stofko If your neighbors have lesser celandine, you will soon have this horrible, but cute, plant all over your gardens and lawn. What can you do? Talk to your neighbors–in a nice way. That’s what Devon Southall of Tonawanda did. Southall had some lesser celandine in her backyard, so she asked her neighbor if she could check along their shared fence. Yikes! Along the fence, Southall found a carpet of lesser celandine about 75 feet long. That…...