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Ploys to keep koi safe from herons
Herons can gobble up fish from backyard ponds almost anywhere, any time.
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Free food safety advice offered in September
To help celebrate National Food Safety Education Month, the University of Georgia Extension Service and Publix supermarkets are teaming up on three Saturdays in September to help shoppers serve safer food.
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Morning glories creeping around popular herbicide
Morning glories are beloved mailbox flowers all over rural America. But to farmers, they're something else: a noxious weed that can lower yields and choke harvesters. For 30 years, the herbicide glyphosate has kept them out of farm fields, but something is changing.
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Peach-firming dip tested
University of Georgia researchers have developed a solution that could help prolong the shelf life of fresh peaches. The solution is similar to what is used for adding chlorine to swimming pools.
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New variety may open way to grow organic peanuts
A new line of peanut developed here could help Southeastern farmers break into the expanding organic food marketplace.
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Warm, wet Georgia summer helps crops, diseases
Georgia's usually wet, warm summers are good for row crops like peanuts, cotton, corn and soybeans. But they're also good for diseases that can attack plants below and above ground. And the recent surge of tropical weather can help the diseases.
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Plastic bags often come in handy for gardeners
Wayne McLaurin still prefers paper bags over plastic. But he keeps finding so many handy uses for plastic bags.
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Choose the right Vidalia onion to sow in garden
Even though Vidalia onions are still available in the stores, it's time to start thinking about planting them for next year.
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Business skills course for landscape pros Oct. 6-7
For anyone new to the landscape or lawn care business or thinking of starting such a business, the two-day Business Skills Workshop Oct. 6-7 in Griffin, Ga., can be a blessing.

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