The University of Georgia’s Cooperative Extension Service is the best source of information for the Georgia gardener. To download various publications, go to:
http://www.caes.uga.edu/publications/
Need to Identify a Bug? Here Are Several Excellent Websites:
http://vegipm.tamu.edu/imageindex.html
MSU Cares offers a fantastic article called “Insect Pests of the Home Vegetable Garden” See:
http://msucares.com/pubs/publications/p2347.pdf
also see University of Kentucky’s “Entomology Fact Sheets”
http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/dept/entfacts2.asp#veg
Washington State University Info. on Integrated Pest Management
Alternative Soil Amendments That Are Not Traditional Fertilizers:
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/altsoilamend.html#plant
For information on Organic Gardening, go here:
http://www.caes.uga.edu/applications/publications/files/pdf/B%201011_4.PDF
The “Georgia Gardener” - Walter Reeves - Website:
http://www.walterreeves.com/food-gardening/uga-vegetable-gardening-publications/
An easy to read Planting Calendar:
http://www.caes.uga.edu/topics/sustainag/documents/GOplantingcalendar.pdf
Know which varieties of Vegetables Are Resistant to Different Diseases by looking here:
http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/Tables/TableList.htm
Soil Testing: http:aesl.ces.uga.edu/soiltest123/georgia.htm
Download and Print these pdf’s:
3-Bin System Composting 3 Bin System Composting.pdf
Seed Starting Chart seed starting chart.pdf
Gardening Calendar Gardening Calendar .pdf
Recommended books for Vegetable Gardening:
Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Book by Walter Reeves and Felder Rushing
Organic Gardening for Dummies by Ann Whitman
What’s Wrong With My Plant? by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth
The Truth About Organic Gardening: Benefits, Drawbacks and The Bottom Line, by Jeff Gillman
A link to the Horticulture Program at Gwinnett Technical College in Lawrenceville, Georgia:
http://www.gwinnetttech.edu/horticulture/
Helpful Websites:
http://www.conservegeorgia.org
Do you dream of becoming a traditional farmer, a permaculture farmer, an organic farmer or any kind of farmer? Georgia’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) makes and guarantees loans to eligible social disadvantaged applicants to buy and operate family-size farms and ranches. For more information, contact your local FSA office. The Georgia State FSA Office is at 355 E. Hancock Ave., Stop 100, Athens, GA 30601 or call (706) 546-2266.
Georgia’s Urban Deer Plan:
Deer are beautiful creatures, however, when deer populations reach and surpass ecological carrying capacity, they negatively affect plants and wildlife. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources estimates that deer damage to landscaping costs Georgians $26,000,000 annually. Furthermore, according to the IIHS, there are approximately 1.5 million deer-vehicle collisions annually in the United States. Hunting is the best method of control but can be problematic within the urban and suburban corridor. What can you do? To start, homeowners should not purposely feed deer. Read more at the Georgia Department of Natural Resources,Wildlife Resources Division “Urban Deer Plan” at this link:
http://georgiaurbandeerplan.com/
also see “Using Milorganite (R) to Temporarily Repel White-Tailed Deer from Food Plots” at http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/pubcd/C889-2/C889-2.htm
