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Here is the 31st annual spring Garden Packet from the University
of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Written by 16 CAES faculty members and graduate students, these
29 features are provided to help you give your readers the
timely, valuable gardening information they want. Your UGA
Cooperative Extension county agent (just call 1-800-ASK-UGA1) can
help you localize these features. The stories are available on
the Georgia FACES Web site at georgiafaces.com.
The 2006 Garden Packet stories are:
1 Add
magic of homegrown herbs to garden Bob Westerfield
2 Don’t
let bitter cucumbers ruin garden harvest
Westerfield
3 TSWV-resistant
plants may aid gardeners Terry Kelley
4 Transplants
give you early start in summer garden Kelley
5 Plant
a little garden variety for your salad Kelley
6 Pollination
critical in vegetable gardens George Boyhan
7 Fight
harvest-robbing diseases in garden Brad
Haire
8 How
to control garden bugs is up to you Alton
Sparks
9 Technique
makes peaches bigger, sweeter Kathy Taylor
10 Don’t
let fear cause ‘killer’ bee mistakes Keith
Delaplane
11 Enjoy
your food, give honeybees respect Amanda Ellis
12 Compost
pile can attract stable flies Nancy Hinkle
13 Golden
garden spiders trap insects Hinkle, Aubree Roche
14 Shovel-headed
garden worms harmless oddities Hinkle
15 Houseflies
present never-ending control challenge Hinkle
16 House
centipede are allies in home pest control Hinkle
17 Georgia
Gold Medals give quality plants leg up Dan Rahn
18 Cuphea
annual plants provide nonstop color Gary Wade
19 Georgia
Gold Medal winner offers warm ‘snowballs’ Wade
20 Wisteria?
A Gold Medal winner? Get serious Wade
21 Award-winning
groundcover offers true-blue flowers Wade
22 Overcup
oak a ‘bulletproof’ Gold Medal winner Wade
23 ‘Angel
trumpets’ signaling soaring popularity Paul Thomas
24 ‘Angel
trumpets’ easy to propagate Thomas
25 Control
weeds to protect beauty of irises Mark Czarnota
26 Go
creative with yard art, theme gardens Sharon
Omahen
27 Look
out for alien invaders in Georgia woodlands Wade
28 Keep
poison ivy out of landscape Czarnota, Tim Murphy
29 Spring
landscape chores, beautiful summer Westerfield
Here are all of the annual UGA garden packet articles for the
past five years:
- 2006 Garden Packet Articles
- 2005 Garden Packet Articles
- 2004 Garden Packet Articles
- 2003 Garden Packet Articles
- 2002 Garden Packet Articles
(Dan Rahn is the principal editor of the annual garden
packet and a news editor with the University of Georgia College
of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.)
