When it’s summertime in Georgia, hot and dry weather will cause stress to most plants. These conditions also help create another problem – spider mite damage.

Believe it or not, field peas — a fixture of the Southern dinner table — can be too difficult to grow in Georgia.

Ralph Waldo Emerson defined a weed as “a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” To a serious gardener, a weed can be nothing less than the bane of his or her existence. University of Georgia Cooperative Extension horticulturist Bob Westerfield says the best way to control weeds is to get to them early.

You can have tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers galore; but no backyard garden is complete without summer squash.

A new insect thought to threaten Georgia's pepper production at the moment poses a greater danger to lantana - a popular landscape plant.

As the seasons turn, commercial bell pepper growers in the Southeast share a common foe: the sun.

Tiny piles of sawdust found in random spots are likely caused by large wood-drilling insects called carpenter bees.

County and city officials in the Southeast spend millions of dollars each year to combat mosquitoes. But those costs are only a fraction of what Southeastern families spend to keep their furry family members safe from mosquito-born parasites.

Faculty members from Young Harris College and the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will host their annual Bee Keeping Institute, May 10-12 in Young Harris, Ga.