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Harvesting
for the hungry
Tucked
away in the middle of downtown Fayetteville is a special garden that
reaches across the county.
Get
more space with Space Station
As fans of the popular
TLC show “Makeover Story” know, every now and then we could
all use some help when it comes to fixing ourselves up.
Cabinets
for the Clevelands: Remaking their 1970s kitchen
Peachtree City
is not an old colonial town. Many of the homes are new and beautiful,
but some subdivisions have been around for 30-40 years.
Plant
now for colorful spring blooms
Tracie Andrescik
plants up to 200 bulbs every fall.
Growing
seeds
Nature grows things
from seed all the time, but some gardeners are a little more hesitant.
Fall
is best time to plan next spring's landscape project
Fall is the
smartest time to plan next year’s landscaping project because you
can save time, money and headaches.
Fall
prep work makes for a green spring
Although it's
tough to admit, summer is drawing to a close and backyard activities
will soon be slowing down; but that doesn't mean you shouldn't take
care of your lawn just as you would if spring were right around the
corner. As a matter of fact, there are several things you can do now
to get your lawn ready for winter and, ultimately, the following spring.
Thinning
benefits forest stands
Thinning is
a forest management practice that is generally performed at some point(s)
in time during the course of the growth and development of natural and
planted pine stands and can be defined as the calculated removal of
certain trees from an existing stand that is usually conducted with
a specific objective in mind.
Wood
- our renewable resource
The Georgia
Forestry Commission asks that you take a moment, and look about your
surroundings. What things can you identify that come from trees? What
things do you use each day come from wood?
Color
your summer vegetables green
For most of
us, summer brings many wonderful thoughts, and flavors, to mind.
Construction
damages trees
With the construction
of homes increasing in the area, the Georgia Forestry Commission urges
homeowners and builders to take necessary precautions to protect trees
during the building process.
Georgia's
ever-changing forests
The perfect
forest, in most people's minds, is open woodlands with towering trees
hundreds of years old. These are the forests we want to save when we
think of forest conservation. Beginning with a few plants, forests go
through a process of "succession" ideally arriving in a climax
or old growth condition. Disturbances such as fires, tornadoes or diseases
interrupt succession and creating totally different situations from
the "perfect" forest. In reality, all forests are in a constant
state of continual disturbance. Succession may progress toward the climax
forest, but true climax is seldom, if ever reached. The forests the
first settlers saw were probably more disturbed than stable. The same
natural disturbances are present today; some are obvious, while others
are less apparent.
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