Water Wednesdays Recap – Hydroponics

What is a hydroponic system? How does it differ from traditional growing of plants? How can we try it at home? Last Water Wednesday, we invited the Sustainable Ag and Food Systems Agent in Seminole… Read More
by Yilin
Posted: December 21, 2020
What is a hydroponic system? How does it differ from traditional growing of plants? How can we try it at home? Last Water Wednesday, we invited the Sustainable Ag and Food Systems Agent in Seminole… Read More
Posted: November 30, 2020
The presence of Mistletoe hung as part of holiday decorations provides the perfect excuse for kissing when partners find their way conveniently or deliberately underneath mistletoe’s leaves and white berries. While it seems that kissing… Read More
Posted: November 19, 2020
Holidays can bring back memories from years past. Valentine’s Day always made me think of little hand-decorated paper bags in school to collect classmates’ Valentines and a favorite candy, Conversation Hearts. St. Patrick’s Day involved… Read More
Posted: November 4, 2020
There are many reasons why warm season lawns in Central Florida may have dead or dying areas. These problem areas can result from not only insect or disease pressure, but also from cultural problems including… Read More
Posted: April 28, 2020
For those of you that haven’t committed to staying in Florida for our steamy Florida summers with frequent rain and lots of bugs, your lawn and landscape will miss you. There are things you should… Read More
Category: Agriculture, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Lawn, Pests & Disease, Turf, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Teaching, Uncategorized, Water
Tags: calibrate, checking irrigation system, irrrigatin system, landscape, lawn, lawn irrigation, mosquitoes, Rain Sensor, standing water, Sumter County Extension, UF/IFAS Extension
by nsamuel
Posted: April 17, 2020
Currently most of the world is focused on Covid-19, and rightly so. We’ve watched the spread of the virus from one country to another and see the destruction it is leaving behind with the loss… Read More
by nsamuel
Posted: June 28, 2019
Crapemyrtles are a beauty to behold in any landscape. They are popular landscape plants in Florida because of their ease of propagation, lengthy blooming period, ability to grow under a range of soil conditions, and… Read More
Posted: January 30, 2019
Flatwoods Plum from the UF/IFAS Demo Garden Sumter County-photo by L. Sanderson If you have visited the UF/IFAS Extension Sumter County office in Bushnell, you have perhaps meandered through the demonstration garden just outside our… Read More
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Demonstration Garden, Eastern Sun, Florida Master Gardeners, Florida Yards and Neighborhoods, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Repetition in Landscapes, Right Plant Right Place, Southwest Sun, sumter county master gardener, Trees
by Matt Smith
Posted: February 6, 2018
I visited an organic strawberry grower the other day who was worried about a rapidly expanding disease in part of her field containing the Camarosa variety. The symptoms were what you see before you: leaf… Read More
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Horticulture, Pests & Disease
Tags: disease, disease testing, integrated pest management, ipm, strawberries, strawberry
by Matt Smith
Posted: February 5, 2018
Hot air rises and cool air falls. Its kind of remarkable how much our lives as we know it depend on this, as this property of physics is one reason we have weather at… Read More
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Horticulture
Tags: cold protection, freeze protection, temperature, weather, winter
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