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Community Gardens 05/08/08
Whether their motivation is feeding their families or beefing up their wallets, more than ever Atlantans are coming together to plant community gardens, says a University of Georgia garden expert.
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Compost to conserve 05/01/08
Composting not only saves water in landscapes and gardens, it creates plant food from trash, says a University of Georgia expert.
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Composting class 05/01/08
As part of National Composting Week, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension agents and Athens Clarke-County Recycling will teach citizens about composting at the State Botanical Garden on May 6 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
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Veggie pests 05/01/08
Warm weather is a welcome sight for gardeners. But the problems it brings with insects and disease are not. Fortunately, there are several things we can do to help prevent and control them.
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Termite control 05/01/08
You can try and control the insects inside and around your house yourself. But leave the termites to the professionals, says a University of Georgia expert.
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Peach field day 04/30/08
Peaches come in many varieties. Anyone who wants to see the latest and best to grow in the Southeast should go to the Florida-Georgia Twilight Peach Field Day May 22 at 5 p.m.at the University of Georgia Research and Education Center in Attapulgus, Ga.
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Agrosecurity 04/29/08 Stephanie Schupska
Dead pigeons don’t usually attract much attention. But a few hundred of them infected with avian influenza and mysteriously found in several U.S. cities would cause, at the least, a media storm.
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Georgia co-ops 04/28/08
Jerry Adams knows growing chestnuts has its ups and downs. Pilar Quintero says owning and managing a horse farm is no easy venture alone. That’s why they turned to the University of Georgia to help them form cooperatives with others in their respective industries.
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Down to the genes 04/28/08
University of Georgia researchers are not looking to pull sweet fruit from the papaya tree branches. They’re peering deeper to study its genes and see how they compare to other plants.
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Enough winter rain? 04/24/08
If Georgia has normal weather this summer, we can expect the soils to continue to dry out and groundwater levels, stream flows and reservoir levels to drop across the entire state.