Home and Garden

The Malheur County Extension Office offers assistance and information to help you manage your home and garden more efficiently and economically.

Our agents can assist you with questions regarding garden plants, fruit and ornamental trees, lawn and landscaping, weeds, insects, spiders and rodents.

Last year a tomato variety trial was conducted to find the tomato varieties that preformed the best in Malheur County.  The information collected can help you determine what variety will suit your needs the best and also what is best for your garden.  See the links below for the data sheets.

Garden Information

• Common Tomato Varieties for Malheur County
• Cherry/Grape Tomato Varieties for Malheur County
• OSU Master Gardener On-Line
• Training & Pruning Your Home Orchard, PNW 400
• Growing Plants in Containers
• Garden News
• OSU Gardening Publications
• Compost
• PNW Handbook - Insects, Weeds, Plant Disease
• Conserving Water in the Garden:
• Growing a Vegetable Garden, EM8375
• Designing and Installing a New Landscape, EC1530
• Landscape and Lawn Care, EC1531

Home

• Mold
• Conserving Water in the Home:
  In the Kitchen, EM 8356
  Washing Clothes, EM8358
  Managing During Critical Shortages, EC8388-E

Food Safety and Preservation Information

The Extension Office has a variety of publications to help you with food safety and preservation.  In addition, the following links will take you to Oregon State University web sites where you can search for items of interest.  Please call the office at 541-881-1417 if we can help you locate something in particular.

• Healthy Recipes
• Food Safety
• Food Preservation

Pressure canner guage testing:
Kinney Bros & Keele Hardware Co. 889-7629
460 SW 4th Ave
Ontario, OR 97914