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Cooler temperatures may mean we're not as bothered by bugs as we spend more time outside, but many cozy up and overwinter in the soil. There, they will complete a number of stages of their life cycles to be ready to emerge in the spring.
Fall is ushered in by shorter days, cooler temperatures, football games all weekend long, and by falling leaves. When late summer is dry, and days that follow stay sunny and cool, we tend to have a more colorful leaf change. We have, in fact, had a great one this year!
Cool season and warm season grasses are treated a bit differently this time of year. But nonetheless, both could benefit from some maintenance to ensure they grow lush next spring.
A: With vertical cracks in the bark along the trunk like that, I suspect those are frost cracks. These commonly happen in maples, which are thin-barked trees.
Like most of nature, turfgrass takes its cues from the environment- namely hours of sunlight and soil temperature. By April, soil temperatures are in the low 50s or are, by now, nearing the mid-50s. What does that mean? Warm-season lawns like Bermuda and Zoysia are starting to show accelerated green up.
By: Ashley Frasca
A: That's a tough ask to have the azaleas in our landscapes look as good as those carefully bred and cared for at the Masters! Late March and early April this year were unusually dry, so that could shorten the show of our azaleas around metro-Atlanta.
By: Ashley Frasca
A: Your pine is showing early stages of Fusiform rust, a fungal disease. As the spots grow larger and swell, which they will, cankers can girdle and kill the tree. An interesting note, rusts like this often have/need an alternate host. In this case, that would be an oak tree. Oaks nearby may show symptoms too, by way of orange spores on their leaves. Both hosts are required for Fusiform rust to develop.
Though the entire Georgia garden community and industry as a whole is grief-stricken over the death of Walter Reeves, hearing memories, stories, and the knowledge he passed along to so many through his work has been extremely heart-warming. And at times those memories have made us laugh, just when we needed it most!
A couple of weeks ago, on my way in to do the radio show, I slammed on the brakes just in time to avoid running over a large snapping turtle. It was the size of a basketball, just chilling on my side of the road outside my neighborhood.
Industry professionals often preach, "right plant, right place", and that mantra holds true for turf as well!
