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Oyster gardening oysters are about a month old, and have grown significantly from our June start. 

Program wide, our mean height is 21.6 mm, a 300-percent increase from our starting size of approximately 7 mm. Gardeners from around Mobile Bay are busily caring for their baby oysters in anticipation of a November planting of degraded reef sites in and around Mobile Bay. 

Proposals to initiate a gardening program in Mississippi have been submitted, and if successful, a Mississippi Oyster Gardening program will be initiated in 2016 modeled on the successful Alabama program.

Meet the author

P.J. Waters, Ph.D.

Associate Extension Professor

P.J. is an associate extension professor with Auburn University. He coordinates the Mobile Bay Oyster Gardening Program and its projects, as well as K-12 aquaculture/aquascience programs. PJ works... Read more

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