Building a Dry Garden Bed

Ask Master Gardener Volunteer Michele Hackmeyer In a previous blog, I described plants to consider using in a dry garden bed. Now I will describe what it takes to create the bed. Doing something… Read More
by Pat Williams
Posted: September 2, 2020
Ask Master Gardener Volunteer Michele Hackmeyer In a previous blog, I described plants to consider using in a dry garden bed. Now I will describe what it takes to create the bed. Doing something… Read More
Category: Agriculture, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Lawn, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Uncategorized
Tags: agriculture, Environment, environmentally friendly, Florida, Florida Panhandle, Garden, Gardening in the Panhandle, General Information, growing, Horticulture, Landscape, Living Well In The Panhandle, Master Gardener, Master Gardeners, panhandle, Panhandle Agriculture, Panhandle Gardening, Panhandle Outdoors, panhandle-livingwell, plants, wakulla, Wakulla agriculture, Wakulla County, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension
Posted: August 20, 2020
When we moved to Wakulla County in 1989 and bought a house just northeast of Crawfordville, my wife and I inherited a grape arbor that was planted by the original builder/owner of the home many… Read More
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: Arbor, Florida Panhandle, grapes, Landscape, muscadine, native grapes, scuppernong
Posted: June 16, 2020
Lately, the night sounds in our mid-Panhandle woodlands have reached a crescendo of deafening levels. It is even difficult to identify individual players in the band as everybody gets in on the action at the… Read More
Category: Natural Resources, Water, Wildlife
Tags: amphibians, barking treefrogs, cricket frogs, Florida Panhandle, frogs, southern toads, tadpoles, toads, treefrogs
Posted: July 24, 2019
Thanks to the generous support of local citizens, businesses and Career Source Gulf Coast, this summer camp season saw more Franklin County youth attending 4-H camp than any year in recent memory. Overall, 34 youngsters,… Read More
Posted: June 25, 2019
Most residents of our area have never encountered this beautiful aquatic reptile the Diamondback Coastal Terrapin. Population numbers are small, and they live in a very narrow band of habitat where our coastal salt marshes… Read More
Posted: May 28, 2019
Summertime at the beach is a family tradition for Franklin County residents and many visitors from inland regions far and wide. As the Gulf waters warm and more people take a dip you will begin… Read More
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources, Water
Tags: Cnides, Florida Panhandle, Gulf Coast, Jellyfish
Posted: April 26, 2019
The bite from the stingray was gentle by most standards, barely noticeable. There were a few tell-tale bumps before the line started moving slowly to the left. The rod tip came up in anticipation and… Read More
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources
Tags: Atlantic stingray, cownose ray, electric ray, Florida Panhandle, ray species, roughtail ray
Posted: March 6, 2019
Who would ever imagine spiders living underwater on an oyster reef? Believe it or not, they do. The tremendous productivity of our Gulf coastal waters has made them important to humans throughout history. Bivalves such as… Read More
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: coastal ecology, Florida Panhandle, Oyster Spiders, oysters, Spiders
Posted: February 6, 2019
It will be a long time before the memories of Hurricane Michael fade in the mind’s eye of many seafood workers in the Mid-Florida Panhandle. Most people have been made aware of how destructive the… Read More
Posted: January 29, 2019
The devastation delivered to people in the mid-Florida Panhandle by Michael is still very evident if you look around our area. Cleanup in Franklin County has been amazingly rapid as citizens and local governments work… Read More
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources
Tags: Barrier Dune, Beach, Erosion, Florida Panhandle, Gulf Coast, Hurricane Michael
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