Horticulture Resources
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RevisedThis publication provides current guidance for insect, disease, and weed control in commercial pecan orchards.
Lenny Wells, Apurba Barman, Timothy Lane Grey, Clemen Oliveira, Wayne Mitchem, and Andrew Sawyer
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This resource provides information on the best vegetables to grow in Georgia gardens as well as planting dates and estimated time to harvest.
Bob Westerfield and David L. Linvill
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Community gardening involves cultivating people and relationships, as well as the soil. This resource provides guidance and suggestions that will help you create a successful community garden.
Ellen M. Bauske and Bob Westerfield
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While most of us are familiar with common poisonous plants that cause skin irritations, such as poison ivy or poison oak, we often don’t recognize common ornamental plants in the landscape that may cause internal poisoning when ingested. Although most adults would not intentionally eat the leaves or fruit of such plants, young children or pets sometimes do. This resource provides readers with information on some of the common landscape plants known to have poisonous properties when ingested. You may be surprised to learn just how many of our common plants, such as azaleas, hydrangeas, boxwood, and English ivy, are known to have poisonous properties.
Bob Westerfield
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Your guide to home gardening in Georgia! Our climate allows us to grow something almost year-round, and these monthly checklists will help you keep your garden working well. Planting recommendations are based on long-term average last and first frost dates for Middle Georgia; adjust accordingly for South or North Georgia.
Bob Westerfield
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This resource will help you choose small trees and shrubs that can provide privacy from your neighbors, separation from a road with heavy traffic or a screen to hide unattractive areas.
Bob Westerfield and Malgorzata Florkowska
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Home Garden Pears
Find out how to grow pears at home. They are adapted to nearly all of Georgia, and it’s not uncommon to find trees as much as 50 years old that are still producing fruit.
Bob Westerfield
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Deciduous fruit plants common to Georgia must be propagated asexually because they do not come true to seed. This makes it necessary to reproduce the desired fruit plants by methods such as cuttings, runners, layering, budding or grafting. This publication discusses the common techniques used to asexually propagate fruit plants adapted to Georgia.
Bob Westerfield
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Many types of fruits and nuts can be grown in Georgia due to our mild climate. This publication provides an outline of the culture and management of the exotic and uncommon fruits and nuts that can be grown in Georgia.
Bob Westerfield
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