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Fresh figs
Georgians may have to wait a year to pick fresh Georgia strawberries and blueberries, but if figs suit your fancy, it's prime picking time.
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Peanut crop smaller
Due to severely dry, hot weather over most of the summer, the U.S. peanut crop will be smaller then expected. Crop loss is never good, but there is a silver lining to this one, says a University of Georgia economist.
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Grass-fed milk
When Sweet Grass Dairy in Thomasville, Ga., was considering adding milk to its successful goat and cow cheese business, they contacted the University of Georgia Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development.
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Garden design contest
If you enjoy designing gardens, would you like to see how you measure up against other Master Gardeners and gardening club members in Georgia? If you’re innovative, creative, inspired or just scrappy enough to dive into a contest, here’s your opportunity.
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Fight fire ants
Football games aren't the only struggles cranking up on grass battlefields now. University of Georgia experts say fall is an ideal time to fight fire ants, too.
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Cool weather flower
Among all the flowers in our southern gardens, one of the most popular, if not the most popular, is the pansy. Pansies have many applications in the landscape as drifts of single color or as massed planting of mixed colors.
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Free pine straw
Georgia pines have started raining pine straw early this year. And yes, somebody has to rake it all up. But pine straw can be more of a blessing than a chore.
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Winter nap
You've harvested the last of the summer veggies, and you're ready to hang up your hoe and spade until spring.
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Fall vegetables
The dog days of summer are beginning to give way to crisper fall air. But this doesn't mean the gardening season is over. It's still possible to grow crops well into the fall and even through the winter in much of Georgia.
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Move over, pansy
When it comes to picking fall flowers, University of Georgia horticulturist Paul Thomas walks right past the pansies and over to the packets of violas. The pansy’s distant, smaller cousin is what he relies on give his winter garden color.