Fact Sheets

ANIMALS

• Dealing with Deer
• Woodchucks CCE (2019)
  
• Woodpecker and Sapsucker Damage (CCE 2023)

BEGINNER GARDENING

• Bee Friendly Backyard
• Hydroponics at Home
• Mulches
• Rose Care

FINDING HELP

• Arborist and Tree Services How to Select (2023)
  
• Choosing a Pest Management Service (CCE 2023)
• Online Information Literacy (CCE 2023)
• Selecting a Lawn Care Service (CCE 2023)

GARDEN INSECTS

• Aphids
• Beneficial Garden Predators (CCE 2023)
• Black Vine Weevil (CCE 2023)
• Black-legged Tick (CCE 2023)
• Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (CCE 2011)
• Chinch Bugs (CCE 2023)
• Cicadas and Cicada Killers (2023)
• Colorado Potato Beetle
• Mosquito Management (CCE 2020)
• Spider Mites (CCE 2023)
• Viburnum Leaf Beetle
• Wasps, Yellow Jackets, and Hornets (CCE 2023)

GARDENING

• Bee Friendly Backyard
  
• Beginning a Vegetable Garden
• Compost Questions Answered (CCE 2024)
• Debunking Garden Myths (CCE 2023)
• Gardening for Pets (CCE 2023)
• Growing Vegetables in a Container
• Home Composting (CCE 2024)
• Houseplant Troubles (CCE 2003)
• Hydroponics at Home
• Mulches
• Rain Barrels Saving Water with Every Rainfall (CCE 2018)
• Rose Care
• Start Seed Indoors (CCE 2023)
• Suggested Vegetable Varieties for Westchester County
• Vegetable Planting Guide with Temperatures
• Water Wise Gardening (2022)

INSECTS

• Aphids
• Chinch Bugs
• Colorado Potato Beetle
• Viburnum Leaf Beetle

INVASIVE SPECIES

• Asian Long-horned Beetle (NYSDEC 2018)
  
• Firewood Don’t Move (NYSDEC)
• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (NYSDEC 2018)
• Hydrilla Least Wanted (NYSDEC 2018)
• Invasive Plant Disposal (NYSDEC 2019)
• Jumping Worms Homeowners Guide (NYISRI 2021)
• New York State Regulated and Prohibited Plant List 2014
• PRISM Factsheet (NYSDEC 2018)
• Oak Wilt (NYSDEC 2019)
• Poison Ivy (CCE 2022)
• Spotted Lanternfly (APHIS Pest Alert 2019)

LAWN CARE

• Bee Lawn
Benefits of Lawns
• Converting Your Lawn to Meadow
• Establishing a Lawn from Seed (2021)
• Lawn care calendar
• Lawn fertilization
• Lawncare without pesticides
• No Mow May (the truth about)
• Selecting a Lawn Care Service
• Watering Home Lawns in Westchester County (CCE 2018)

PLANT PESTS AND DISEASES

• Aphids
• Aster Yellows (CCE 2023)
• Black Knot Fungus (CU PDDC 2018)
• Beech Leaf Disease
• Black legged Tick
• Black Root Rot
• Boxwood Common Diseases
• Chinch Bugs
• Colorado Potato Beetle
• Late Blight
• Managing Vegetable Diseases
• Mosquitos
• Overview of Plant Diseases
• Sooty Mold (CU PDDC 2015)
• Tomato Viruses
• Viburnum Leaf Beetle
• Wasps, Yellow Jackets, and Hornets

PLANT SELECTION

• Native Plant List from the NYSDEC
• Native Plants for Westchester County
• Plants for a Shady Area
  
• Plants for Hillside Erosion Control
• Plants that Tolerate Salt
• Small Trees Big Impact

SOIL

• Correcting Soil pH
• Plant pH Preference Chart
• Soil Basics (CCE 2023)
• Using Cover Crops to Maintain Soil Structure

STRUCTURAL PESTS

• Bed Bugs Cornell
• Bed Bugs Tips for Travelers
• Carpenter Ants
• Carpet Beetles
• Cockroaches
• Nuisance Flies in the Home
• Silverfish and Firebrat
• Termites

TREE CARE

• Barksplitting on Trees Various (CALS 2018)
• Cankers on Trees (2020)
• Pruning Trees and Shrubs
• Common Arborvitae Problems (2023)
• Death of a Newly Planted Tree
• Fertilizing Trees and Shrubs
• Normal Needle Shedding on Evergreens (CCE Suffolk 2012)
• Transplanting Trees and Shrubs
• Volcano Mulching
• Winter Protection of Trees and Shrubs (CCE)

UNDERSTANDING PESTICIDES

• Hazard vs. Risk
• How to Select a Pesticide
• Personal Pest Control: What Works and What Doesn't, Summer
• Pest Home Remedies
• What is a Pesticide

VEGETABLE GARDENING

• Beginning a Vegetable Garden
• Growing Vegetables in a Container
• Suggested Vegetable Varieties for Westchester County
• Vegetable Planting Guide with Temperatures

Last updated April 23, 2025