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Category: Agriculture

Can you grow a coconut palm in Charlotte County?

Posted: January 22, 2018

By Ralph E. Mitchell Can you grow a coconut palm in Charlotte County? The short answer is both “yes” and “no”. While this magnificent symbol of the tropics makes a wonderful landscape feature in some places, it is… Read More

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture

Tags: bud rots, Category II Invasive plant, coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, Lethal Yellowing, scale insects, whiteflies

Clam Farming in Southwest Florida

by Betty Staugler

Posted: February 3, 2016

Shellfish aquaculture is a relatively new pursuit in Florida. It began in the 1970s in the Indian River Lagoon when attempts were made to culture hard clams as a means of taking pressure off declining wild populations. Techniques… Read More

Category: Agriculture, Farm Management, Turf

Tags: Aquaculture, clam farming, hard clams, sunray venus clams