The New Year provides a natural break and is a good time for reflection and goal setting. What have you accomplished in the past year and will these items be continued? Are there new habits or goals you wish to pursue in the year to come? Planning, ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Lawn
As I am writing this, it is 30 degrees and dropping outside in Clay County, Florida and it looks like we have at least two more nights with hard freezes. This is nothing compared to most of the country, but for our landscape and garden plants, ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Lawn, Turf
When other areas of the country are laying down their gardening gloves, Central Florida residents can pick their gloves up and garden with color. This is the time of year when Lake County residents can fill small beds and container gardens ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes
Cold Florida Nights ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Lawn
Cold Protection of Landscape Plants By Sydney Park Brown, Dewayne L. Ingram, and Thomas H. Yeager Winter temperatures in Florida are frequently low enough to cause cold injury to tropical, subtropical, and occasionally temperate plants not ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Lawn
Vermicomposting is composting with worms. The worms eat organic materials ideally balanced with both carbon and nitrogen elements. They produce castings - worm “poop.” The castings become the end product, vermicompost, a wonderful soil ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home LandscapesWhen starting a vegetable garden or even orchard, you may wonder if you need two or more plants of a certain variety to cross-pollinate each other or if you can get away with just one. This will depend on if you have a monoecious or dioecious ... READ MORE
Category: Crops, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
In this multi-part series, we’re taking the guesswork out of watering the lawn. (For earlier segments, see Part 1 and Part 2.) In this post, we’ll continue looking at soil moisture sensors, discussing the importance of correct sensor placement. Location, ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Lawn, Turf
Question: I need help to identify this plant in my garden. I recently moved into a badly neglected house and this small tree (10' or more) is growing beside the house with these strange spikes growing from the tips. A neighbor says it's an ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, UF/IFAS Research
Palms are unique plants and can present gardeners with questions about what's happening to landscape palm. Palm problems may or may not be an actual problem. For example, here is an example of the trunk of a mature palm. Is the bark splitting ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension