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A young sago palm with some cold injury on the leaves.

Cold Temperatures and Your Plants

A common question during winter when we are expecting temperatures to really dip into the freezing range, like they are this week is, “Will my plants survive the cold snap?”This is not as straight…

Volunteer as a Weather Observer

Citizen Science Program Needs Help Observing the Weather

Have you ever wondered how much rain fell during a recent thunderstorm? How about snowfall during a winter storm? If so, an important volunteer weather observing program needs your help! The…

Soil Sample Box and Form

Spring Soil Samples

**It's non-peak soil testing season April through Thanksgiving which means no fee. Submit your soil samples to the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Agronomic Services lab in…

Confederate Rose

Confederate Rose, Not a Rose at All

Picture a tree full of pink peony blossoms in October after a summer showing of large lobed green leaves (maple leaves on steroids!) and you will see why this old pass along plant, Confederate rose…

Litter Pickup Sign

2022 Volunteer Litter Pickup Schedule

Join Carteret Big Sweep's monthly cleanup on the third Saturday each month at 9:00am.

2021 International Coastal Cleanup

Join Carteret Big Sweep for the 2021 International Coastal Cleanup

This September, Carteret Big Sweep is encouraging volunteers to #ConnectAndCollect as part of Ocean Conservancy’s 36th International Coastal Cleanup (ICC), the world's largest volunteer effort to…

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Be Aware of Spotted Lanternfly

A news report from WCTI News Channel 12 today announced that some Christmas trees were sold in Onslow County that came from Pennsylvania.Why is this of concern to us? Pennsylvania and in this case…

Lawn & Garden Soil Sample Box Used to Take a Soil Sample

Submit Soil Sample Before Dec 1 Peak Season Fee

**Peak-season soil testing will soon be in effect. Get your fall samples in now, to avoid the $4 per sample fee charge from December 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022.Submit your soil samples to the…

Volunteer at a Big Sweep Cleanup picking up trash.

Carteret Big Sweep and 2019 International Coastal Cleanup

On Heels of a Busy Summer Tourist Season, Carteret Big Sweep and Carteret County Government Invites Citizens to Join the Movement of Over One Million Volunteers on Saturday, September 21, 2019, to…

White flowers, s stem with magenta streaks and several compound leaves of the water hemlock plant

NOT Giant Hogweed!

Recently there was a webinar on invasive plants in North Carolina. One of the plants highlighted was Giant Hogweed. All parts of Giant Hogweed are very toxic. The sap of the plant will cause burns if…