Among the fastest growing segments of Georgia agriculture, landscaping and lawn care are important ways to add to and maintain a home's value. 海角官方首页 Extension provides advice about caring for and protecting lawns and landscapes from pests and disease, and helps both homeowners and lawncare professionals ensure that their grass is always greener.
Our Programs and Services
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Arborist Safety Training Trainings in safe climbing, tree removal, and groundwork operations.
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Georgia Certified Landscape Professional For managers and technicians in both the landscape installation and maintenance businesses.
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Georgia Green Landscape Steward Program A certification program for Georgia businesses and residences on implementing sustainable green practices in their landscape.
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Landscape Worker Safety Training A three-part online training covering general precautions, equipment safety and pesticide safety.
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On-Site and Telephone Consultation Available in many situations for home owners and consumers.
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Pesticide Safety Education Program Georgia's Pesticide Safety Education Program promotes the responsible and safe use of pesticides throughout Georgia. We accomplish this by providing the educational resources, training programs, and materials needed to help both private and commercial pesticide applicators achieve certification and subsequently to maintain the knowledge to safely and effectively make use of restricted-use and all other pesticides.
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Soil and Water Testing Services Increase your yield, test your water quality, and more.
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Sports Turfgrass Management Certificate Up-to-date turfgrass management practices for the sports field industry.
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SuperCrew Training Series Self-paced series on turfgrass installation, ornamentals planting and pruning, pesticide safety, and more.
Recent Publications
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Hydroponic Gardening for the Homeowner and Small Grower (C 1315) Important considerations for starting a small hydroponic operation at your home or an urban garden site.
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Georgia Pest Management Handbook — Commercial Edition (SB 28) The Georgia Pest Management Handbook gives current information on selection, application and safe use of pest control chemicals. The handbook has recommendations for pest control on farms, around home…
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2025 Georgia Ag Forecast Series: Green Industry 2025 (AP 130-3-12) 1. 2024 was a good year for many green industry firms, though Hurricane Helene mitigated these positives for many growers. 2. There are many unknowns going into 2025 that will impact green industry sa…
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Landscape Plants for Georgia (B 625) This publication includes a list of good plants for Georgia organized into various sizes and groups. The design qualities of plants—their form, size, color and texture—are emphasized according to the …
Websites
海角官方首页-affiliated
Resources for Georgia's Green Industry.
?This site contains detailed information and growing recommendations for species of turfgrass, and provides links to relevant publications from Extension and researchers, turfgrass management courses and other sites.
Briefly summarizes turfgrass varieties and Georgia's turfgrass production.
The exceptional team behind several premier turfgrass varieties, making its mark through solid, long-term commitments to new cultivar development, education and on-going research and support for all of our grasses.
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News
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From bringing more than 50 varieties to market to monitoring the growing economic impact of the blueberry, this series dives into the multidisciplinary research behind the top-10 Georgia commodity.
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Planned burns can help prevent the kind of massive out-of-control wildfires that have decimated millions of acres and caused billions in damages in the U.S.
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海角官方首页 researchers Melissa Mitchum and Xunliang Liu have uncovered how cyst nematodes co-opt a sugar beet’s vascular system for their own benefit.
