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Annual flowers can be planted in soil bags for easy installation. CAES News
Soil bag flower beds
Growing annual flowers in native soils can be a challenge in Georgia. Clay soils, though fertile, are often poorly drained, leading to root diseases. Sandy soils are generally less fertile and drain too quickly, making it hard to keep flowers watered and fed. Planting directly into a good bag of potting soil could be a better option.
Fire ants scurry along a piece of wood CAES News
Fire ant control works best now
It’s that time of year again. School is back in session, football is around the corner, fall harvesting will begin, and it’s time to fight fire ants.
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Plant tall fescue in the fall
Tall fescue is a popular cool-season grass species known to have a bunching growth habit.
Pears hang from a tree in a middle Georgia home landscape. CAES News
Home orchard
Plucking fresh fruit from your own orchard can be a delicious way to add beauty and taste to your home landscape. The best time to plant fruit trees in Georgia is in the fall, according to a University of Georgia expert.
Collard greens grow in a garden in Butts Co., Ga. CAES News
Cool-season crop time
As summer vegetables like corn and beans stop bearing, now is the time for home gardeners to start preparing fall gardens of cool-season vegetables.
Yellow leaves on a tree in the fall of the year CAES News
Leaves = mulch
If you don’t like raking, bagging and dragging leaves to the curb, recycle your leaves into mulch. Leaves are nature’s way of creating a natural blanket for protecting tree and plant roots from extreme cold temperatures.
Jenny Hardgrave of Simply Flowers Inc. plans her pansy bed at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Ga. CAES News
Pro planting
With their colorful faces and cold-weather tolerance, pansies are an easy landscape edition – unless they are installed incorrectly.
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Landscape classes
Landscape professionals can learn better design techniques using graphics and sustainability practices at upcoming workshops on the University of Georgia campus in Griffin, Ga., Nov. 11-12.
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Sweet Potato Puff
An edible class project earned six University of Georgia students national recognition and a little dough.
UGA food scientist Jennifer Cannon conducts research at the Center for Food Safety in Griffin, Ga. CAES News
Hand sanitizer
A hand sanitizer created by University of Georgia scientists could soon help vacationers on cruise ships spend more time having fun on the lido deck and less time leaning over the side suffering from nasty stomach bugs.