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Collard greens grow in a garden in Butts Co., Ga. CAES News
Fall is cool-season crop time 08/19/10 Paul Pugliese
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: Nature's homemade mulch 08/19/10 Paul Pugliese
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
Plant pansies like the pros 08/19/10 Stephanie Schupska
With their colorful faces and cold-weather tolerance, pansies are an easy landscape edition – unless they are installed incorrectly.
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Landscape workshops focus on graphics, sustainability 08/12/10
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.
Gwen Roland admires an angel trumpet plant growing in a greenhouse at the University of Georgia Research and Education Garden in Griffin, Ga. CAES News
Don't eat a plant unless you can identify it 07/29/10
During summer, children are outside more, and the vibrant colors and smells of blooming flowers might lead them to take a little taste of a plant. This can be dangerous.
South Georgia students and teachers learn about invasive species, like this climbing fern, at a recent course in Tifton. CAES News
High school students, teachers get schooled on invasive species 07/23/10 Erin Griffin
High School students and teachers from all over south Georgia gathered in Tifton earlier this month to learn more about invasive species and what to do if they see them.