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Here is the 30th annual spring Garden Packet from the University
of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Written by 11 CAES faculty and staff members, these 20 features
are provided to help you give your readers the timely, valuable
gardening information they want. Your county agent (look in your
phone book under “county government”) can help you localize
these features.
The 2005 Garden Packet stories are:
1 Broccoli,
cauliflower do well in Georgia (Terry Kelley)
2 Gourds
add variety, fun to spring garden (George Boyhan)
3 The
early gardener gets the asparagus (Kelley)
4 Protect
veggies from diseases, reap reward (Brad
Haire)
5 Don’t
get ahead of yourself: soil test first (Sydne
Moody)
6 Praying
for prey: mantids ‘tigers’ in gardens (Nancy Hinkle)
7 New
fruit trees great for home orchards (Gerard Krewer)
8 Dinner
on ground? Don’t invite mole crickets (Dan Rahn)
9 Protect
landscape trees from power mower blight (Rahn)
10 Two-lined
spittlebugs growing turf pests (Will Hudson)
11 Dogwoods
Georgia’s aristocrats of spring (Jim Midcap)
12 Select
hydrangeas for flowers all summer long (Midcap)
13 Georgia
Gold Medal give deserving plants a leg up (Rahn)
14 Dragon
Wing like a begonia on steroids (Gary
Wade)
15 Georgia
Blue veronica a true-blue winner (Wade)
16 Creeping
raspberry covers tough landscape sites (Wade)
17 Rose
Creek, Canyon Creek abelias hot shrubs (Wade)
18 Glowing
Embers not just another Japanese maple (Wade)
19 Landscape
flash, fizzle? Stretch spring color show (Rahn)
20 Spring
signals time for trees to crank up (Elinor Ruark)
Here are all of the annual UGA garden packet articles for the
past four years:
- 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.)
