Well, you might ask your neighbor for advice or the weekend assistant at the garden center might have a clue. But if you want accurate information from someone with more knowledge and more experience, call a Cooperative Extension Agent. It's their job to answer all your horticultural and agricultural questions. Their office is a gold mine of useful, easy to understand information on most every subject involving the plant kingdom.
Some agents even make house calls.
CES is an information network linking the U.S. Department of Agriculture , land-grant universities, county governments, and individual extension agents. In 1914, the Smith-Lever Act founded the CES and its principal mission was to sustain and expand U.S. agriculture. As our country has become more urban, CES began reaching out to town and city dwellers. Today's extension agents help anyone who has questions on a wide range of subjects, including consumer affairs, community development, food and water quality, home and family, and, of course, growing plants. CES is funded by taxes federal, state, and local.