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This afternoon I stopped in at a nursery to pick up some compost for a container gardening project we have with a new fifth grade garden club. As I was checking out I had one eye on the pugs that were eyeing my ankle and the other on this lady who came up on me…
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Last year around this time I was putting up Christmas decorations because my parents were coming to visit and spend the week of Thanksgiving with me and my sister. I had just purchased my first home a year prior and was so excited to show off my accomplishment. In the past years my parents have…
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If you get started now, you can enjoy the beauty of wildflowers in your landscape next spring and summer. Wildflowers provide a natural look to your landscape and are generally low maintenance. They can attract wildlife and birds to your landscape for your enjoyment. Some species make good cut or dried flowers. Many of the…
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Over the Labor Day weekend, I began the process of ridding my lawn of purple and yellow nutsedge as well as kyllinga. I was in the backyard hand-pulling the yellow nutsedge while carefully trying to avoid any missed dog bombs when I came across this beautiful spittle mass. If I had one, this would have…
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Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle, Labidomera clivicollis As an adult, Labidomera clivicollis is 12 to 13 mm in length. It has a black head and black pronotum. The elytra either have orange or yellow coloration, with dark blue to black splotches. With each side of the elytra exhibiting almost perfect symmetry. This species is oval and…
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Students and families are encouraged to participate in the second annual Great Georgia Pollinator Census, which will be held by UGA Extension August 21-22. About 4,500 participants documented more than 131,000 insect sightings as part of the inaugural census in 2019, and more than 100 events related to the project took place around the state.…
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I would say that I am constantly looking at my St. Augustine grass in my back yard for possible diseases, insect damage, thinning areas or weeds. At the moment I am hand pulling nutsedge, kyllinga, Bermuda grass and chamberbitter weed from small areas. However, last week something really caught my attention. As I was walking…
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A client called me to come look at a section of her St. Augustine lawn. Apparently, it was turning brown and spreading. Upon inspection I did notice some lesions I thought appeared to be gray leaf spot. After making several slides, I was unsuccessful in finding the disease under the microscope. The next morning, I…
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