Herbicides
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Question: Is it safe to use hay and manure in my vegetable garden? NO! That’s the short answer I’ve finally settled on with all the calls and plant samples our office has had to troubleshoot from vegetable gardens in recent weeks. Please help tell your friends and neighbors they’re probably better off not using hay…
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Every year, local county Extension offices receive hundreds of phone calls from homeowners with questions about “when” to do this or that to their lawns. When do I fertilize? When do I plant grass seed? When do I core aerate? When do I apply pre-emergent herbicides? These are just a few examples of the many…
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This presentation is geared toward certified arborists, landscapers, master gardeners, and home gardeners that commonly use phenoxy herbicides for lawn weed control. This particular presentation focuses on the potential for phenoxy herbicides to affect non-target trees and woody ornamentals in landscape settings due to poor application choices by professionals. This is an issue that is…
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Many clients contact their local University of Georgia Cooperative Extension office frustrated with grasses taking over their flower beds or vegetable gardens. A common phone call might involve Bermuda grass taking over a bed of juniper ground cover or daylilies. And, if you’ve ever tried to pull Bermuda grass out by hand, you quickly learned…
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Many clients contact the Extension office frustrated with grasses taking over flower beds or vegetable gardens. A common phone call might involve Bermudagrass taking over a bed of juniper groundcovers or daylilies. If you’ve ever tried to pull Bermudagrass out by hand, you’ll quickly learn that it just grows right back from any root fragments…