Lawn and Garden
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This resource explains how flooding and stormwater pollution affect waterways and how vegetation along the water reduces the negative impacts while improving aesthetics and water quality for fish habitats, recreational boating, appealing views, and property value. It provides guidance on planning, implementation and maintenance of riparian buffer vegetation, and a list of recommended plants.
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Sweet tea olives are woody, evergreen broadleaf shrubs or small trees that are widely produced in nurseries and used in landscapes because of their fragrant flowers and lower incidence of pests. This resource helps producers understand different propagation methods and how each works for sweet tea olives.
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Bees are among the most populous, diverse, and effective pollinators. Approximately 70% of bee species nest in the ground, spending their larval and pupal stages underground. This resource helps residents understand how to help these bees as continued urbanization threatens natural spaces and land degradation, pollution, and habitat destruction present serious challenges to sustaining bee populations.
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This publication contains comprehensive, in-depth information about heating, cooling and ventilating greenhouses.
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While there are literally hundreds of issues that can occur in the home garden, this resource focuses on the most common ones. When troubleshooting issues in the garden, this provides a good starting point and will help gardeners diagnose their issues and strategize solutions.
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False oleander scale, which appears as white spots on leaves, is an invasive pest on ornamental plants. It is prevalent in Georgia and poses a significant threat to the aesthetic value of ornamental plants in the nursery and landscape.
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In North America, six species of tent caterpillars are found. The forest and Eastern tent caterpillars occur in Georgia, and can damage the aesthetic value of landscapes. There are several management strategies that work against tent caterpillars and this resource will help you identify and control them.
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A pollinator-friendly and ecologically sustainable garden is both beautiful and able to attract and sustain beneficial insects, reducing the need for pesticides. This publication is based on new research in habitat management for purposes of planting insect-attracting plant species in order to intentionally draw insects to garden areas and urban landscapes. This is done by providing a refuge for the insects during winter and nectar and pollen resources. Plant selection directly affects beneficial insect populations, those insects that can provide ecological benefits such as biodiversity and natural pest control. This concept of “habitat management” can lead to potential increases in pollinating and other beneficial insect populations. An increase in these populations in landscapes will contribute to improved pollination of plants and biological pest control and reduce the need for pesticides.
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This publication describes forest farming (also known as forest gardening), which can be defined as cultivation of plants under a forest canopy. It includes suggestions for appropriate plants for cultivation in the Southeast.
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