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Careful Packing Keeps Christmas Keepsakes Safe
Cleaning up after Christmas isn't just taking down the tree and hauling out the holly. Packing carefully this year can help preserve Christmas keepsakes for holiday seasons to come.
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Surprise Christmas Pet? More Surprises May Come
What could be a better surprise than a cuddly puppy sporting a bright ribbon on Christmas morning? Certainly not the surprises that could follow, said Jim Strickland.
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Hopeful Growers' Vidalia Onions Off to Good Start
If winter's here, can spring be far behind? It certainly seems far to Vidalia onion growers, whose big-money crop has to survive a perilous winter to become the sweet onion the world has come to love.
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1996 Turned Out Great for Georgia Grain Growers
Mother Nature smiled on Georgia grain farmers this year. Not just by sending us favorable weather, but by making growing conditions unfavorable in the Midwest.
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Nature as a Classroom the New Trend at School
Why sit in a classroom and write poems about flowers, when you could be out among the flowers when you write? There you could smell them, feel them, examine them in more detail.
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New Small Fruit Cultivars and Discoveries
Small fruits (berries and grapes) are great for home gardens. We're lucky in Georgia to have a rich history of small fruit breeding.
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Bromeliads Can Be Exotic Christmas Gifts
If you're shopping for a holiday gift plant, you're bound to see some odd, exotic plants among your garden center offerings.
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Make the Farm a Safe Home for the Holidays
The calendar is giving us a break this year. Since Christmas falls on a Wednesday, many school kids will have two full weeks of holiday vacation.
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Mystery Bird Brings Mistletoe to Wild Garden
A UGA colleague stopped by my office to see if he could come out and gather some mistletoe.

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