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Gourmet garden 08/18/05
Gourmet salad greens don't have to cost a fortune. You can easily grow your own. Most salad greens are cool-weather crops. Depending on where you garden in Georgia, you can start sowing salad green seeds in August and continue every week through late October.
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Fall gardening 08/18/05
Gardening through the fall and winter has some big advantages in Georgia. The weather will be much cooler. Insects aren't as bad, either. And some vegetables taste better when you grow them in the cool of the year.
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Get to work 08/18/05
Cool fall days are still a few weeks away, but there's much to do in the garden to get ready for the change of seasons.
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UGA in Griffin 08/18/05
Today, 15 University of Georgia students made history. They were the first undergraduate students to attend classes toward a UGA degree in Griffin, Ga.
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Ancient satellite 08/18/05
While global positioning satellite systems are a relatively new technology, humans have been using information for years from one ancient satellite: the moon.
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Add color 08/18/05
When Jim Midcap moved to Georgia 18 years ago, he decided to go native -- in his yard, anyway. Now, every fall, he's reaping the benefit in gold, orange, red and yellow.
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Peanuts a plenty 08/12/05
U.S. citizens this year will eat more peanuts than last year. But they won't come close to consuming the massive amount farmers will produce this year.
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Flood risk high 08/11/05
The very wet summer of 2005 has caused the risk of flooding to be usually high across Georgia. Soil moisture and stream flows are already very high for the middle of August. Most reservoirs and ponds are at or near the summer full pool.
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Cheap, cheap 08/11/05
Daniel Fletcher is a scholar of all things cluckish. The University of Georgia poultry and food scientist and a recent inductee as a fellow of the Poultry Science Association, recites the history of poultry production like some scholars spew Shakespearean prose.
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Fewer graduates 08/11/05
Ten points. That's how much Georgia's dropout rate increased from 1992 to 2002, according to the Southern Regional Education Board. And it's not just a Southern or a high school problem.