Clemson Information Center Clemson Extension Service is providing thousands of consumers more information than ever before on home. Yard and garden topics through its new Home and Garden Information Center. You can access is via a toll-free phone call using a computerized interactive voice response system. There are about 600 recorded messages on topics including landscaping, gardening, plant health, food safety and preservation and houseplant pests. The information will soon be available on the web at hgic.clemson.edu.
Callers enter four-digit codes to retrieve the message they wish to hear.
The codes have been published in a user's guide which is available from your Sumter County Extension office. Just stop by the office and request one or more. Callers who do not have the guide can access some of the messages through a recorded menu system. During that same time period, an information assistant takes requests for fact sheets which will be sent out by surface mail. The center also maintains a computer web site that will contain all of the fact sheets and the user's guide.