Gardening Resources
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Interior plants are an ideal way to create attractive and restful settings while enhancing our sense of well being. In addition, houseplants can be a satisfying hobby and can help purify the air in our homes. To be a successful indoor gardener, you need to understand how the interior environment affects plant growth and how cultivation differs from growing plants outdoors.
Bodie V. Pennisi
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C 1069
Home Garden Brussels Sprouts
Learn how to grow Brussels sprouts in your home garden. Brussels sprouts are a cool season vegetable that can be grown both in the fall and early spring. This resource covers soil preparation, planting, and maintenance, as well as controlling pest problems.
Bob Westerfield
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C 1035
Home Garden Watermelon
Learn all about growing watermelon in the home garden, including transplanting, starting seeds, soil preparation, culture and fertilization, harvesting, storage and use, and problems. It also includes a list of recommended varieties for Georgia.
Bob Westerfield and Malgorzata Florkowska
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C 1039
Home Garden Swiss Chard
Learn how to grow Swiss chard in the home garden, including soil preparation, planting, culture and fertilization, harvesting, storing, and using Swiss chard, plus problems you might encounter and a list of suggested varieties.
Bob Westerfield and Malgorzata Florkowska
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Cover crops can be an important component to any home garden. They are used for various reasons, including building the soil, controlling soil erosion, and limiting the initiation and spread of certain diseases and insects in the soil. This publication is designed for homeowner and Master Gardener audiences and discusses the benefits, selection, planting and use of cover crops in the home garden.
Bob Westerfield
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C 1018
Home Garden Lettuce
Use this resource to learn how to grow lettuce, a cool-season vegetable that can be planted in early fall or early spring in Georgia.
Bob Westerfield
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C 941
Home Garden Okra
Learn how to grow okra, a Southern staple in the home garden and at the dinner table that can be grown throughout the state of Georgia. This vegetable is both easy and fun to grow and can be used in many different culinary dishes and in dried flower arrangements.
Bob Westerfield
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The purpose of this publication is to introduce the problem of blossom-end rot and provide a guide to effectively diagnose and treat this problem.
Bob Westerfield, Joshua Mayfield, and W. Terry Kelley
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All vegetables, especially tomatoes, like an even supply of water throughout the growing season, and will often develop problems if their water supply fluctuates. If watering restrictions or bans are imposed, water conservation becomes a critical issue.
Bob Westerfield
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