| Learn how to care for your lawn by identifying practices that are beneficial or detrimental. Learn how to identify common plant problems in your yard and solutions that identify what is troubling your yard.
This will help to reduce the amount pesticides used on your property (from widespread application) and save money. Using pesticides (herbicides and insecticides) properly and sparingly will help to protect the quality of rivers, lakes and streams. The workshops are held in partnership with the Clean Water Campaign and the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service.
Excessive amounts of fertilizer and pesticides would harm fish and other aquatic life as well as degrade the quality of rivers, lakes and streams. Nutrients from fertilizers- usually phosphates- enter rivers, lakes and streams and stimulate the growth of algae. Excessive algae growth harms oxygen levels in lakes and ponds, thus killing fish and other aquatic life.
Upcoming Workshops
Hillside Erosion Solutions & Ornamental Grasses. Learn simple solutions to hillside erosion problems and how to incorporate ornamental grasses in your garden by attending this free Gardening Seminar with UGA Cherokee County Extension Office. This seminar will be held on Saturday, Apil 17, 2010 at 10:00am at Hickory Flat Library, 2740 East Cherokee Drive, Canton, GA 30115. To register for this workshop, please call the Cherokee County Extension Office at 770-479-0418 or email your contact information to uge1057@uga.edu or visit their website at www.ugaextenson.com/cherokee.
Gwinnett County Department of Watershed Resources is offering a free Lawn Care with Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Workshop on Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 7:00pm at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center (Auditorium) at 75 Langley Drive, Lawrenceville, GA 30045. This workshop will teach participants how to manage yard pest while managing their yards without polluting the environment. Registration is required, to register for this workshop please complete an online registration form.
If you are interested in having a workshop held in your community, please contact us! |
