UGA Cooperative Extension
Lumpkin County Cooperatve Extension
Greg Sheppard's Newspaper Articles (pdf format)
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- June 28, 2006 - Japanese Beetles - Family Reunion Time In The Garden
- July 5, 2006 - Vegetable Pollination - The Private Lives Of Vegetables Revealed
- July 12, 2006 - Whip-poor-will - Hear The Call Of The Whip-Poor-Will
- July 19, 2006 - Adelgids - Adelgid Control For Homeowners
- July 26, 2006 - Adelgids - Coping With Hemlock Adelgids On Forest Land
- August 2, 2006 - Carpenter Ants - Hunt Carpenter Ants At Night
- August 9, 2006 - Fish Ponds - Fish Pond Management
- August 16, 2006 - Coneflowers Don't Have To Be Purple Anymore
- August 23, 2006 - Bagworms - Cones" On Your Leland Cypress?
- August 30, 2006 - Get Even With Chiggers
- September 6, 2006 - Hornets - Hornets Are Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
- September 13, 2006 - Garden Clean Up - Time To Clean Your Room
- September 20, 2006 - Kudzu - Godzilla of Garden Weeds
- September 27, 2006 - Figs For Fantastic Fruit
- October 4, 2006 - Fall Garden Series-Don't Be Late For Class
- October 11, 2006 - Master Gardener Training Class
- October 18, 2006 - Mystery of the Falling Branches
- October 25, 2006 - The Confederate Rose
- November 1, 2006 - Leaves Aren't the Only Things To Fall in Autumn
- November 8, 2006 - Burning Bush Sets Landscape Aflame
- November 15, 2006 - Tough and Beautiful Astilbe
- November 22, 2006 - Research Investigates Lawn Problems
- November 29, 2006 - Plan For A Winter Garden
- December 6, 2006 - "Mighty Oaks From Tiny Acorns Grow"
- December 13, 2006 - Buyer Beware!
- December 20, 2006 - Gifts for Gardeners
- December 27, 2006 - Have A Spring Fling Indoors
- January 3, 2007 - New Year's Resolutions
- January 10, 2007 - Tiny Insects by the Thousands
- January 17, 2007 - Who Needs a License to Kill?
- January 24, 2007 - Seed Catalogs!
- January 31, 2007- Prevent Crabgrass
- February 7, 2007- Fire Pits Are Hot Stuff
- February 14, 2007- Ten Dozen Roses For My Valentine
- February 21, 2007 - Beware of the Dark Side of the Force
- February 28, 2007 - Different Strokes For Different Folks
- March 7, 2007 - Liriope A Handy Plant
- March 14, 2007- Master Gardener Voluteers
- March 21, 2007 - How Much Do I Need?
- March 28, 2007- We're Not In Kansas Toto
- April 4, 2007 - Eastern Redbud Provides Spring Color
- April 11, 2007 - Admiral Semmes Azalea
- April 18, 2007 - Coping With Freeze Damage
- April 25, 2007 - Check For Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Now
- May 2, 2007 - A Confederate Jasmine For North Georgia
- May 9, 2007 - Sloppy Mowing Doesn't Cut It
- May 16, 2007 -
- May 23, 2007 - Rhodondendron Borers
- May 30, 2007 - Don't Let Vegetables Run Out of Gas
- June 6, 2007
- June 13, 2007 - Irrigation Pointers For Home Gardens
- June 20, 2007 - Don't Feed The Bears
- June 27, 2007 - Plants Need Thier Space Too
- July 18, 2007- Chiggers Control
- July 25, 2007- Buying Pesticides
- August 1, 2007 - Bed Designs with a water hose
- October 24, 2007- Fall Pruning
- November 14, 2007 - Rain Barrels
- January 16, 2008 - Pruning Crape Myrtles
- January 23, 2008 - Walnut Trees
- February 13, 2008 - Arbor Day
- February 06, 2008 - Muscadine Pruning
- March 5, 2008 - Spring Fertilizer Application
- June 11, 2008 - Thinning Fruit Trees
- July 09, 2008 - Irrigation Bags
- July 23, 2008 - Extension Website Helps save you time & money
- July 30, 2008 - Vegetable care
- August 06, 2008 - Year of the Insect
- August 13, 2008 - Garden Math is important
- August 20, 2008 - Fragrance- Another Garden Dimension
- October 01, 2008 - Time to Tidy up
- October 08, 2008 - Bulb Planting
- October 15, 2008 - Tree Planting Space
- October 22, 2008 - Flowering Quince
- October 29, 3008 - Black Widow Spiders
- November 05, 2008 - Time for Soil Testing
- November 12, 2008 - Pecans in your yard?
- November 19, 2008 - Ground Covers are Landscape Heroes
- November 25, 2008- Thank goodness for gardening
- December 10, 2008 - Look up!
- December 17, 2008- The gift of Agriculture
- December 23, 2008 - Hollies much more than Landscape Plants
- December 30, 2008- Garden Scrapbooking
- January 14, 2009 - Store Garden Chemicals Safely
- January 21, 2009 - A purple wave of Tiny Critters
- January 28, 2009 - Proper Design saves maintenance time
- February 4, 2009- Extension Website Information
- February 11, 2009 - Lunch & Learn
- February 18, 2009 - Have you planted a Tree?
- February 25, 2009 - Salmonella Infection in Wild Birds
- March 04, 2009 - Kill Crabgrass Now!
- March 11, 2009 - "Crummy" Azaleas may have the Bug!
- March 18, 2009 - Manure in the Veggie Garden
- March 25, 2009 - Versatile Daylilies
- April 08, 2009 - Vegetable Gardening in Small Spaces
- April 15, 2009 - Plan your harvest when you Plant
- April 22, 2009 - Shopping List for Shrubbery
- April 29, 2009 - How long will pollen season last?
- May 20, 2009 - Popular plants in Dahonega
- May 27, 2009 - Spring Flowering plants need care
- June 03, 2009 - Fungus Among us!
- June 10, 2009 - Scorpions make poor bed fellows
- June 17, 2009 - Hot enough for you?
- July 15, 2009 - A stitch in time saves nine
- August 12, 2009 - Pesticide Primer
- August 26, 2009 - A Hydrangea for everyone
- November 04, 2009 - Getting Ready for winter
- November 11, 2009 - Plant Properly
- November 28, 2009 - Berries in the Landscape
- December 09, 2009 - Tree of the Year-- Chinkapin Oak
- December 23, 2009 - The First Christmas Gifts
- December 30, 2009 - What changes would you make?
- January 06, 2010 - Coffee for the compost
- January 13, 2010 - The Other Chinkapin
- January 27, 2010 - Get a head start with cold frames
