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News from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

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Efficient Use.
The survival of many Georgia farmers depends greatly on one question: How efficiently can they use water and keep their yields and profits where they need them?
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01 Best 2002 veggies

Six new vegetable garden cultivars have been awarded All America Selections for 2002. Based on their performance in test gardens all over the country, these new plants have been judged as superior in their class.

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02 Important resistance

There was a time a gardener could simply plant the same tomato or squash variety year after year with no problem. It usually tasted great, was easy to grow or was an heirloom variety handed down over the generations. Those days are increasingly gone.

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03 Organic secrets

If you prefer to use few or no pesticides in your garden, you can still grow bountiful crops. The secret to organic gardening is to follow good gardening practices as closely as possible.

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04 Vegetable lessons

One of the greatest restaurants I've ever eaten in is now gone.

What made it great? You went in, sat down and ate what Mary had prepared that day. What the boat brought in, she fixed. And if the catch was poor, she would close up with a note on the door.

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06 Frying tomatoes

A little roadside restaurant over in south Alabama would cause me to plant more tomatoes, especially for my wife. Why? Because they make a sandwich that's out of this world. It's a "Southern BLT." It's not just a BLT. It's a BLT made with fried green tomatoes.

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05 Garden with a theme

Consider building your next garden around what you eat. Kitchen gardens are an old idea that deserve a second look. They enable you to enjoy meals with a gourmet taste at homegrown prices.

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07 Sneaky vegetables

Will the children eat vegetables if we make them into desserts? Probably so. Just don't tell them they're vegetables.

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08 Easy chives

Chives grow wild in Italy and Greece and probably came with the explorers to the New World.

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09 Transplant Success

Transplants can make your garden more successful. And they've been around for a long time, although they haven't always been available in nice, easy-to-handle six-packs.