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Holiday planting 11/16/06
The winter holidays are perfect for eating turkey, watching football and planting shrubs in your landscape. If you don't ordinarily associate planting shrubs with the holidays, it's not because the two don't go together.
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Lowfat holiday 11/09/06
Holiday dinner is the one time you’re allowed to eat entire platefuls of home-cooked delicacies without an ounce of guilt. But that’s usually not the case, and that serving of remorse typically follows your second slice of pecan pie.
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Local Christmas trees 11/09/06
University of Georgia horticulturist Mark Czarnota won’t be buying his Christmas tree from a box store. He’s focusing on Georgia-grown in his house and encouraging others to do the same.
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Covered-dish holidays 11/09/06
Covered-dish meals offer the best of the fall and winter holidays for many communities, large groups and families. But for safety's sake, you need to do more than just "cover" your dishes.
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Giving time 11/09/06
With the holidays approaching, Sharon Gibson, a University of Georgia Cooperative Extension multicultural specialist, offers ideas to help make the holidays a season of giving.
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Holiday favorites 11/09/06
Poinsettias, Christmas cactuses and African violets are the most common plants given over the holiday season. A University of Georgia expert offers tips for caring for these seasonal favorites.
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It's gift time 11/09/06
“We need to be ensuring a season of giving instead of getting,” said Gibson, a multicultural specialist with the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences. “What we want to instill in our children is that service and giving of oneself should be a part of daily life.”
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Tips for 'brown thumbs' 11/09/06
Giving a plant to someone without a green thumb can be like giving a pet to someone who isn't an animal lover.
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Fanning lecture 11/02/06
Carole Brookins will present the 2006 J.W. Fanning Lecture on “Major Forces and Factors Shaping Global Markets and Their Structure” Nov. 27 in Athens, Ga. The annual lecture will be at 10:30 a.m. in rooms K/L of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
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Mulch volcano 10/31/06
In many manicured landscapes, plants often seem to grow out of little mulch volcanoes. But piling mulch 1 to 3 feet deep around trees is way too much of a good thing, experts say.