Georgia Family
Growing Your Own Tea Garden

BY KATHLEEN HENNESSY    2016 Herbs are easy to grow and can be decorative, medicinal, add new dimensions to food, and attract beneficial insects. And …

Animated Garden
An Animated Garden: Butterflies

BY KAREN FRITSCHER-PORTER Can your family have beautiful flying insects in the backyard? Yes. You and the kids can create a charming garden in the bac…

Pick Up Some Herbs

BY CONNIE COTTINGHAM Pick Up Some Herbs at the Nursery or Plant Sales If you have that spring gardening bug, March and April are great times to go to …

Butterfly Garden

OLYA FESSARD    MAR 2017 CREATE A GARDEN TO ATTRACT MONARCH BUTTERFLIES Nothing brings a garden to life the way butterflies do! It is even more magica…

The Essentials of Lawn Care

GFM Many people find lawn work  tedious. All that mowing, watering, weeding, fertilizing, and other chores can be tiresome, especially under a hot sun…

A Victory Garden

BY OLYA FESSARD Ever since First Lady Michelle Obama planted the first garden on The White House grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt’s Victory Garden, fam…

Autumn Gardening

GFM Week-by-week in Middle Georgia OCTOBER First Week Fall fescue (grass) planting season officially begins! Watering restrictions are still in force …