UGA Cooperative Extension

DeKalb County Extension Office:
Agriculture & Natural Resources
Home & Garden

Homeowner's Information

Gardeners can call upon the Cooperative Extension Office for our services in regards to gardening, landscaping questions and how to choose a landscaper.  Information is also available on landscaping, lawns, insect control, fruit and vegetable production, tree care, annual and perennial flowers, pastures, traditional agriculture and much more. Soil and water samples can be tested for safety and to help you make effective, money-saving decisions about plants, fertilizers and pesticides. Visitors often bring in samples of weeds, diseases, insects and wildlife for identification and/or a control recommendation.

Home & Garden Information

Other Cooperative Extension Websites

Cooperative Extension websites are available 24 hours a day to provide you with up-to-date and unbiased research-based information.

These sites are not trying to sell you anything and they are there for your use!

• www.caes.uga.edu/extension  (main extension website, click on publications)
• www.bugwood.org (UGA Entomology & Warnell School of Forestry, site for pest ID)
• www.Forestry.UGA.EDU (forestry and urban trees information most of which has been compiled by Dr. Kim Coder; Example: “Sudden Oak Death – SOD” bibliography of important information and research into this deadly pathogen)
• www.gaurbanag.org  (main site for urban research center in Griffin, GA.) Has a link to the Research Garden and there are two easy to use search engines for UGA and USDA publications