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2026 Watermelon Spray Guide From Dr. Bhabesh Dutta – UGA Extension Vegetable Pathologist. This condensed spray guide picks up at “Fruit Set” (spray 5) – or the post chlorothalonil sprays. if you want sprays 1 – 5, I will send to you or you can refer to a PREVIOUS BLOG POST from 4/1/26. Call with…
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Soil Temps Questions lately about soil temps and planting. Here’s latest soil temps at the UGA Weather Station in Sparks. Avg soil temp (5/1 – 5/4) at 4″ is 73 degrees F. Here are Bob Kemerait’s (UGA Extension Plant Pathologist) comments about planting peanuts now: “As peanut planting will now begin in earnest, cooler, wetter…
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Drought/Dryland Peanut Herbicides – Prostko 1) Residual herbicides must have moisture to be “activated”. Activation simply means the movement of the herbicide into the upper 1″-2″ of soil. This is the depth where most annual weeds emerge from. Moisture is also needed to keep the herbicide in the soil solution so that it can be…
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Tuesday, April 21 at 12 Noon. Lenox Pecan Orchard (see directions). Directions: Meeting location is in pecan orchard .65 miles East of the traffic light in Lenox on South side of Judge Lott Rd. Shade Tree Meeting – This will be an informal and interactive pecan production update as we get into spraying trees. UGA…
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2026 Watermelon Spray Guide This is a GENERALIZED SEQUENCE OF A FUNGICIDE SPRAYS for watermelon. Things change during growing season so don’t get locked into spraying exactly according to this guide. Rain Data This shows how dry its been. According to our weather station in Cook County (Georgia Automated Weather Network) located in Sparks, we…
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Below is info from Dr. Lenny Wells, UGA Pecan Specialist related to efficiently managing pecan fertilizers while considering fertilizer price fluctuations. This is a snippet from a more lengthy and detailed blog post (2/24/26) by Dr. Wells that you can find by clicking on the link – Managing The Increase in Pecan Fertilizer Costs. “In…
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RSVP at 896-2281 by today. Freeze/Frost Injury on Corn Majority of corn in our area did not see any major damage from recent cold temperatures. In general, if your corn was less than 1′ tall, injury – other than some leaf burning – will only be minimal and mostly cosmetic. Here are comments from Dr.…
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Cook Chamber Ag Appreciation Dinner RSVP by Friday March 20th to 896-2281. Soils Temperatures and Planting Again Soil temps at 3:10 PM – Tuesday afternoon 3/17/26 at Sparks location: Below are desired soil temps needed for corn, peanuts, cotton and soybean. These temperatures need to be an average among several days without threat of colder…
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Peanut Variety Info Below are slides from Dr. Scott Monfort – UGA Peanut Specialist presentation during county peanut production meetings. Cook County Peanut Variety Trial Data – Local Trial Data Professional Turfgrass Maintenance & Management Training Come learn about maintenance and weed control management in turf grass. We will be hosting a Landscape Professional Training at…
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Georgia State Specific Dicamba Training
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