April 30, 2024
Gardening tips available on Extension Hotline

We appear ahead to walk-in readers, cell phone calls, e-mails, Facebook messages, postcards, telegrams, provider pigeon messages, cuneiform tablets and other techniques that Etowah County residents get to out to us with concerns on Extension subjects here at the Extension Business.  

Our calls are inclined to change by subject, and of training course by seasonably related topics. This time of 12 months, the vast the greater part of our phone calls have a tendency to be about gardens and vegetation. Irrespective of whether landscaping or vegetable backyard garden, we know we’ll be fielding calls about how to consider care of ailing azaleas or temperamental tomatoes. 

We have a single much more way to get solutions to all those thoughts that you might not know about. We have a Hotline that can take calls from people, working day in and working day out, staffed by Learn Gardeners throughout the state. It is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday via Friday at 1-877-ALA-Grow (1-877-252-4769). 

Vegetable gardeners can call the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service's Hotline, staffed by Master Gardeners, with questions about their gardens and plants.

When you contact the Hotline, you are not going to get solutions from just any one, you are going to be speaking with volunteer Learn Gardeners who have graduated from a rigorous instructional system. The Grasp Gardeners function with Extension agents and experts to be certain that their responses are substantial high-quality, investigate backed info.