UF/IFAS GLOBAL BLOGS
Due to minimal staffing, UF/IFAS Extension Analytical Labs are prioritizing soil samples from producers. Dooryard landscape and garden soil samples may be stored and analyzed as capacity becomes available. We appreciate your patience during these unusual circumstances. How… Read More
Due to minimal staffing, UF/IFAS Extension Analytical Labs are prioritizing soil samples from producers. Dooryard landscape and garden soil samples may be stored and analyzed as capacity becomes available. We appreciate your patience during these unusual circumstances. How… Read More
Should I overseed my lawn for the coming winter season? Lots of people employ this strategy, most of them in the interest of having a green lawn in an otherwise bland landscape. There are several pluses to overseeding… Read More
July isn’t the nicest of times to be working in a Florida garden. Why not, spend the day with master gardeners learning about Northeast Florida gardening and getting ideas to improve your own landscape. Attendees are sure to… Read More
While some garden pests like to hide under leaves, in the soil, or be so small you cannot see them without a microscope, the Lubber Grasshopper stands out wherever it goes. You probably have seen this pest lumbering… Read More
As a boy in a small town in Georgia we had a St. Augustinegrass lawn. My dad started the lawn before I was born. That lawn was still doing fine when I left for college at age seventeen…. Read More
Blue skies, mild temps and warm sunshine welcomed turf professionals to the South Florida Turfgrass Field Day and Expo at the beautiful University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center (FLREC) in Davie on… Read More
Out and about viewing golf greens is where I’ve been lately as the Commercial Horticulture Extension Agent in Brevard County. Here in the county is where you will find 25 golf courses across the 1,557 square miles of… Read More
Annual bluegrass, known as Poa annua, is the most troublesome weed of turf systems, according to a recent Weed Science Society of America survey, and this weed has grown to epidemic proportions, causing severe economic losses. Dr. Bryan… Read More
When I came onboard as the new Commercial Horticulture Extension Agent in Brevard County this week, I was welcomed by the Space Coast Golf and Turf Association’s Executive Committee with a luncheon on the beautiful deck of Duran… Read More
