Category: Fruits & Vegetables
Timing your Florida Vegetable Garden
December 27, 2017
Florida's bountiful vegetables Florida is known for a lot of unique things. Palm trees, beaches, warm breezes, orange trees, and cattle are signature Florida images. Vegetable fields do not come to most people's minds, partly because most ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, HorticultureTags: Agriculture, Florida Vegetable Growing Guide, Gardens, Highlands County, Master Gardeners, Tomato, Tomatoes, Vegetable
Microgreens Class
December 19, 2017
Indoor farming has never been easier! Join UF/IFAS Extension for a class on Microgreens, January 26th from 10am – 11am at the Baker County Extension Office (Ag Center) located at 1025 W. Macclenny Avenue in Macclenny. Microgreens ... READ MORE
Category: Events, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, HorticultureTags: Microgreens
Shade Gardening 101
December 12, 2017
We're frequently asked, at the Pasco Extension Office, about can be planted in the shade. The correct answer can actually vary quite a bit, depending on the extent of the shade and what you want to grow/your purpose. If you are looking to start ... READ MORE
Category: Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS ExtensionTags: Full Sun, Shade, Shade Tolerance, Sunlight, Vegetable Gardening
Picking with a Purpose
December 12, 2017
It is winter and the temperatures are dropping, the holiday season is upon us, and citrus across the state is ripening on the trees. In this season of giving, have you ever noticed your backyard orange trees produce just too much fruit for ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home LandscapesTags: Citrus, Community Service, Glean, Master Gardener
Extension Promotes School Gardening in Broward County
December 8, 2017
By Brenda Marty Jimenez, Family and Consumer Sciences Agent and Lisa Gonzalez, Broward Food Systems Specialist There are approximately 260,000 Broward County residents who receive food stamps through SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition
Extension Solutions on Orange TV
December 8, 2017
Extension Solutions is a new video program that provides up-to-date horticulture and other Extension information on agriculture, horticulture, family& consumer sciences and 4-H to the residents of Central Florida. The three to four minute ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, Food Safety, Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Lawn, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, Turf, Work & LifeTags: Cflandscapes, Extension Solutions, Orange TV, Pest Problems, Television, Tv, Video
Take a Tour of Our Demonstrations at UF/IFAS Hastings!
December 7, 2017
Did you know that UF/IFAS has an extension center in downtown Hastings? Just off of E. St. Johns Ave, you can take a tour of our demonstration landscape, gardens and commercial production practices in Hastings. Interested in a cutting garden? ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home LandscapesTags: Florida Friendly, Hastings
Trees and Cold Weather
December 6, 2017
Native trees tend not to be too susceptible to the cold here in central Florida, UNLESS they are native to southern Florida, and the gardener, who is terribly susceptible to the allure of nursery catalogs, has allowed them to outgrow their pots ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home LandscapesTags: Cold Weather, Polkgardening, Polkmg, Protection, Trees
An Introduction to Herbs in Florida
December 1, 2017
What is an Herb? Herbs are plants used for food, flavoring, medicine, or fragrance due to their savory or aromatic properties. The purpose of this post is to introduce common culinary herbs which grow well in Florida and are primarily used ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home LandscapesTags: Herbs