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Published on 06/04/21 UGA Extension recommends water-wise irrigation methods for the home landscape By Martin Wunderly for CAES News If you have been working in your home landscape recently, you might be wondering, “Are we in a drought?” It certainly seems like we could be, especially after the temperatures climbed and precipitation dwindled over the course of May.…
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Published on 05/27/21 Tick-borne bobcat fever poses serious threat to domestic cats By Denise M Hatcher for CAES News Experts at the University of Georgia are urging cat owners across the state to proactively protect their pets as cases of cytauxzoonosis, or bobcat fever, an often fatal tick-borne disease, are spiking in middle Georgia. Five counties in particular…
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Published on 05/28/21 Unusually cool spring temperatures may impede Georgia vegetable gardens By Bob Westerfield for CAES News To call this past spring in Georgia normal would be a mischaracterization. Typical springs in Georgia seem to last about three days — and then we hit the hot weather. This spring, the cooler temperatures were most pleasant and hung…
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Published on 06/03/21 Public help needed to control invasive tegu lizards in southeast Georgia By Courtney Cameron, Rick Lavender for CAES News University of Georgia Cooperative Extension is assisting the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GDNR) in the effort to find and remove tegus from the wild in southeast Georgia, and the public’s help remains critical to keeping…
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Article by: Jessica Warren, ANR Agent, Camden County Basic Tree Health and Management Most of us have and enjoy trees in our landscapes, but often little thought is given to those trees until something is terribly wrong. Usually by the time a homeowner calls me about a tree, it is already dead or dying and…
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Slime Molds, Bark Lice, and Other Landscape Oddities Each year I receive a number of questions about odd or “alien” things in the landscape. Most of these organisms are harmless, and all of them are fascinating. Below I’ll highlight just a few of these oddities. Slime molds are amazing organisms that belong to a ‘primitive’…
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Build Your Own Rain Barrel Workshop May 12th, 2021 You are invited to join the Georgia Coastal Management Program in partnership with Coke Florida for an upcoming Build Your Own Rain Barrel Workshop. Did you know: A rain barrel can save most homeowners 2,000 gallons of water each year which can be used for watering…
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Lichens and What They Mean for Your Trees(Article written by Jessica Warren, ANR Agent, Camden County) Every year around March I begin getting calls about a “fungus that’s killing my trees.” Often this is followed by tales of scrubbing the perceived offenders off of the trees with bleach. First let me say that bleach is…
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GrassMasters Spotlight Series: Forage Quality and Management in Equine Diets Tuesday March 30, 2021 6:30 – 7:30pm Online via Zoom To register, click this link: https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b76NDN95VYFNkTs?fbclid=IwAR3zVz3yryYrVvDwn6bNBc0l6i-LayLpdU86GWy8YYQZyj-RdL4_8Z4zTJI Forage Quality and Management in Equine Diets Program Flyer
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I cover a lot of topic areas in my role as the Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension Agent for Camden County, but one of my favorite topics will always be wildlife – especially misunderstood wildlife which, quite honestly, is most of it. As such, my topic today is bats. Bats play a vital role in…