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UGA study: Irrigation benefits both newly planted and established peach trees

GRIFFIN — While peach orchards are a common sight throughout middle and south Georgia — helping the Peach State live up to its name — peach producers need more than just the title to ensure that both long-established groves and newly planted fields are successful. Dario Chavez and his research team in the Department of Horticulture on the University of Georgia Griffin campus are working to answer that question. Beginning in 2014, Chavez, along with then-graduate student Bruno Casamali, began working on improving Irrigation and fertilization management practices for young peach trees in the Southeastern U.S. after finding there was no up-to-date information available. Traditionally, irrigation management relied solely on rainfall, which is not always predictable.

2nd Mother s Day during COVID marked by loss, gratitude for those here

This Mother s Day, hundreds of local families are mourning the loss of their mom to COVID and thousands are feeling grateful that their mom survived it.  By Wednesday, 243 women in Chatham, Effingham and Bryan counties had died of COVID. With more than 80% of American women over age 40 having children, it s likely  many of these women are being grieved by their children this Mother s Day.   Among them are Sarah Williams, whose mother Jan Hendry died at 71 in January. Williams mourns the self-sacrificing single mom who won t get to see her 2-year-old grandson grow up. David and Sara Plaspohl mourn David s mother, who owed her existence to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.  

Growings On: Be sure to recycle your Christmas tree, electronics on Jan 9 in Dalton

As 2020 comes to a close, the holiday season also transitions to a new year. The task of removing and storing or disposing of holiday decorations accompanies this transition. While many items can be organized and stored to be used in future years, natural Christmas trees have reached their useful lifetime. Given the quantity of trees to be managed, recycling is a better alternative than disposal. Fortunately for area residents, Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful will cooperate with Whitfield County Public Works, Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority and Home Depot to provide “Christmas Tree & Electronics Recycling: Bring One for the Chipper” again this year on Saturday, Jan. 9, at the Dalton Home Depot parking lot.

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