Experts offer advice for gardening in cool, fall temps
Amanda Tedrow and Patrick Phelps discuss Tedrow's compost bin, which includes dirt, paper scraps, vegetables and worms. She showed the box at the UGA Extension Office’s second annual Fall Garden Workshop in Lexington on Aug. 31. (Photo/John Henry Hammond)
The glass bottles placed below the rainfall simulator capture runoff and infiltrating water during a presentation at the UGA Extension Office’s second annual Fall Garden Workshop in Lexington on Aug. 31. The bottles on the top caught the runoff, while the bottles on the bottom caught any water that penetrated the soil. (Photo/John Henry Hammond)
Philip Brown, a grazing specialist with the National Resource Conservation Service, demonstrates a rainfall simulator at the UGA Extension Office’s second annual Fall Garden Workshop in Lexington on Aug. 31. The simulator can replicate intense rainfall. (Photo/John Henry Hammond)
Amanda Tedrow keeps a discreet, but fascinating, secret beneath her desk: a box of paper scraps, dirt, vegetables and, most surprisingly, worms.
The unassuming box is a testament to her passion f…
