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Container garden including several different plants CAES News
Hot weather stress 07/10/12 Judy Ashley
When the temperatures reach triple digits, we hear plenty on the news about how to take care of our pets and ourselves, but not much about our plants. Recent record temperatures can obliterate our lawns and ornamentals in just a few hours if these plants are already under stress for other reasons.
Plants love the summer sun, but June's triple-digit days had plants, and their caretakers, wilting across the state. CAES News
Too hot for plants 07/05/12 Merritt Melancon
When temperatures start heading into 3-digit territory, even the most sun-loving plants can start suffering from the effects of Georgia’s mid-summer sauna.
Suspected 2,4-D herbicide damage on tomato. CAES News
Tomatoes susceptible to herbicides for turf and pastures 06/21/12 Donn H Cooper
Home gardeners often inadvertently and unknowingly damage their vegetables with herbicides.
Slime molds, like this dog vomit mold, pop up in Georgia every time it rains. This mold sprang up next to a corn plant in a Georgia garden this srping. It's not harmful but seems to gross out unsuspecting gardeners. CAES News
Attack of the slime molds 06/07/12 Michael J. Wheeler
Most of the time when people call their University of Georgia Extension office, they are typically fairly calm, but when they call to report a science-fiction-type growth has taken up residence in their yard, their nerves are usually on edge.
Garden soil CAES News
Dirty work pays off 03/27/12 Merritt Melancon
Good compost takes time, patience and alternating layers of decomposing yard and kitchen wastes. Those are the basics, but Athens-Clarke County Extension Agent Amanda Tedrow was finding that most people needed more information in order to make the compost equation come out right.
Freshly ground woodchips CAES News
Successful landscaping 06/01/11 Paul Pugliese
Think like a plant. Would you like your feet strapped to a cage, your arms amputated, be buried alive in compost, smothered in mulch or drowned? To avoid some tree, shrub, flower and lawn problems, remember this Top 10 list:
Yellow leaves on a tree in the fall of the year CAES News
Leaves = mulch 08/19/10 Paul Pugliese
If you don’t like raking, bagging and dragging leaves to the curb, recycle your leaves into mulch. Leaves are nature’s way of creating a natural blanket for protecting tree and plant roots from extreme cold temperatures.
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Expert advice free on the web 08/19/10 Amanda Swennes
As you plant fall vegetables, bring plants inside on cold nights and dream of what your landscape will look like next spring, take a moment to check out some of these free resources written by University of Georgia Cooperative Extension experts.
"Your Southern Garden" host Walter Reeves. CAES News
Properly propagate 04/23/10
Gardeners can learn to reproduce prized plants through propagation, identify irises and master mulch on “Your Southern Garden with Walter Reeves” May 1 at 12:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Georgia Public Broadcasting.