Category: Horticulture
“Roundup®” License- Is it For You?
July 23, 2019
Landscape professionals and homeowners alike should be aware that the State of Florida requires a license in order to apply any pesticide (including herbicides such as Roundup®) as part of a landscape business. The Limited Commercial Maintenance ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, Turf, UF/IFAS ExtensionTags: IPM, Landscape, Mbhenry, Polkpesttraining, UFIFAS_SW_pesttraining
CEUs and Certification: Green Industries Best Management Practices
July 23, 2019
Why do landscape professionals and the property owners they serve need to know more about the Green Industries Best Management Practices? Concerns about excessive nutrients and Florida's water quality have led to increased focus on the use ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Lawn, Pests & Disease, Turf, UF/IFAS ExtensionTags: GIBMP, Mbhenry, Polkpesttraining, UFIFAS_SW_pesttraining, UF_FloridaFriendlyLandscaping
If you like bitter melon, it is easy to grow
July 23, 2019
By Ralph E. Mitchell While a name like bitter melon may make you think twice about eating this fruit, this Asian crop is very popular across the world and even here in the United States. Not to be confused with its small, weedy, toxic-seeded ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, HorticultureTags: Bitter Melon, Cucumber, Easy-to-grow, Ganjyu
Florida Trees and Hurricane
July 23, 2019
Trees are beautiful and provides many benefits. If trees are not properly maintained, they can create hazard to property and human being. The 2019 hurricane season began June 1st and will end September 30th. It’s hard for us not to remember ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, HorticultureTags: Hurricane
A Diverse Landscape is a Healthy Landscape
July 22, 2019
A Lesson from History: Dutch Elm Disease It is a strange thing; a never-ending story continually appearing in the landscape. We fall in love with a specific landscape aesthetic, certain plant material begins to dominate the landscape, and then ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS ExtensionTags: Disease, Diversity, Dutch Elm Disease, Landscape, Lethal Bronzing, Plant Diversity, Plant Selection
IRREC Graduate Student Wins Travel Grant to Attend American Society of Horticultural Sciences Meeting
July 19, 2019
Dinesh Phuyal, a University of Florida Indian River Research and Education Center graduate student, has earned two travel grants that will take him to an international research leaders’ meeting. The two awards, one from the American Society ... READ MORE
Category: Crops, Horticulture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Passion fruit: A new alternative crop for small farmers
July 18, 2019
Passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) is a perennial, climbing, woody vine that produces edible round or ovoid fruit with many small seeds. Vines have a productive life of 3 to 4 years. New plantings should be made on a continuous 3-year rotation ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, HorticultureTags: Passion Fruit, Purple Passion Fruit
EDIS Update: Biology and Management of Pusley (Richardia L.) in Tomato, Pepper, Cucurbit, and Strawberry Production
July 5, 2019
Pusley (Richardia L.) is a common Florida weed in vegetable and strawberry production. The Florida pusley is a native to the state but the three South American varieties are often mistaken for each due to similar distributions, growth habits, ... READ MORE
Category: Horticulture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS ResearchTags: Edis, Extension, Horticulture, Outreach, Pusley, Ufmrec