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06/06 - 05: Riverside Farmers Market
06/06 - 05: Riverside Farmers Market
06/06 - 05: Riverside Farmers Market
06/08 - 15: New Cherokee County Master Gardener Training Class
06/20 - 28: Norcross Charity Garden
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Q&A of the week 
| Cat grass - Hairballs |
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What can you tell me about cat grass? It is supposed to help cats with bringing up hair balls. I bought a small kit and the grass grew but my cat ate the grass and pulled up the roots. |
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Cat grass can be either wheat, oat or rye. The seeds are available online at www.coperseeds.com. Fil Click for more... |
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| Shrub - Planting Properly |
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A few months ago I had a professional installer plant a large number of bushes around my house. He used a method that violates my own knowledge of planting. I was told his method was advocated by a UGA professor who had done a great deal of research supporting the technique. In planting azaleas, for example, he would merely dig a hole of sufficient width to accommodate the root ball, then insert the plant into the hole without doing a thing to the tightly packed roots. He'd stomp the dirt down around the root ball and that was it. After about five months of very little growth, I examined the plantings. I found pockets of air around and under some of those I looked at - plus mold, insects and slugs. I pulled several out of the ground and replanted them in a hole three times the size of the root ball. In the two months since I replanted, the azaleas are virtually exploding with new growth. |
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I can't imagine whose installation research the installer is talking about. University of Georgia ho Click for more... |
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Fertilize houseplants. They are getting much more light now and can use the food to grow bigger.
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