The Landscape Alert
An Outreach of the Center for Urban Agriculture - www.gaurbanag.org
- Is it Safe to Apply Herbicides During Spring Green-Up of Turfgrasses?
- Potential for Frost across Georgia Looming Early Next Week
- Ground or Digger Bees Attack Landscapes
- Azalea Lace bugs Best Controlled Early in the Season
- Ambrosia Beetles: An Early Season Tree & Shrub Threat
- Southern Red Mite
- Pink Hibiscus Mealybug Found in Forsyth County
- Florida Betony Control
- Fall Management of Large Patch Disease in Turfgrass
- Lantana Lace Bug Control
- Prevent White Grubs in Turf Now!
- Protect Landscape Trees Now from Drought Injury
- It is Time to Control Mole Crickets!
- Check St. Augustine Lawns Now for Chinch Bugs!
- Powdery Mildew in the Landscape
- Take All Root Rot Damages Centipede and St. Augustine Lawns
Potential for Frost across Georgia Looming Early Next Week
Matthew Chappell, University of Georgia Horticulture DepartmentIf you are like many Georgia residents, you have broken out the shorts and t-shirts. Across much of Georgia, plant material is in the same mood, with buds breaking on all but the latest plant material. However, you need to be aware that the weather is about to take a typical spring swing to colder temperatures. The National Weather Service offices in Peachtree City, Tallahassee, and Greenville/Spartanburg are all forecasting at or below freezing temperatures across the vast majority of Georgia on Monday night (4/6); as far south as the GA/FL boarder and east as Statesboro. To make matters worse, Tuesday night (4/7) could be a repeat frost/freeze for those of us north and east of I-75 and I-16.
Please be aware that the forecast is apt to change (for better or worse) and that growers and landscapers should prepare plant material and inform clients on the possible frost/freeze. Detailed weather forecasts can be obtained online at http://www.weather.gov/ or via NOAA weather radio. In many cases landscape plants can be protected from frost. See the following links on cold protection. For a NOAA graphic of Georgia's average last frost dates, see below. (Original article released by the Georgia Green Industry Association - www.ggia.org)
(Editor’s note: See the following publications for ideas on protecting plants from the cold.)
Cold Damage and Ornamental Plants
Using Irrigation for Cold Protection
Winter Injury to Evergreens (What to do after a freeze)
Please share this information with others in the landscape & turf industry. For more information:
Call your local Extension Agent at (800) ASK-UGA1 or locate your local Extension Office
Pest Management Handbook (Follow all label recommendations when using any pesticide)
Current weather conditions, historical data and applications