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Sweet Potatoes Sweet 01/06/97
A sweetpotato by any other name is still a sweet potato. "When I was growing up in Louisiana," Wayne McLaurin recalls, "if it hadn't been for sweet potatoes and peas, we'd have starved slap to death."
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Gifts for the Birds 01/06/97
Well, now that the bustle of the winter holidays is over, had you thought about gifts for your birds?
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Safe Christmas Keepsakes 12/23/96
Cleaning up after Christmas isn't just taking down the tree and hauling out the holly. Packing carefully this year can help preserve Christmas keepsakes for holiday seasons to come.
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Surprise Christmas Pet 12/23/96
What could be a better surprise than a cuddly puppy sporting a bright ribbon on Christmas morning? Certainly not the surprises that could follow, said Jim Strickland.
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Vidalias Start Strong 12/23/96
If winter's here, can spring be far behind? It certainly seems far to Vidalia onion growers, whose big-money crop has to survive a perilous winter to become the sweet onion the world has come to love.
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Great Georgia Grains 12/23/96
Mother Nature smiled on Georgia grain farmers this year. Not just by sending us favorable weather, but by making growing conditions unfavorable in the Midwest.
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Nature as a Classroom 12/23/96
Why sit in a classroom and write poems about flowers, when you could be out among the flowers when you write? There you could smell them, feel them, examine them in more detail.
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Small Fruit Discoveries 12/23/96
Small fruits (berries and grapes) are great for home gardens. We're lucky in Georgia to have a rich history of small fruit breeding.
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Exotic Christmas Gifts 12/16/96
If you're shopping for a holiday gift plant, you're bound to see some odd, exotic plants among your garden center offerings.
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Farm Safety for the Holidays 12/16/96
The calendar is giving us a break this year. Since Christmas falls on a Wednesday, many school kids will have two full weeks of holiday vacation.