Category: Fruits & Vegetables

Barn Bugs

by Les Harrison
August 17, 2018

By: Les Harrison Destructive Barn Bugs By August’s languid days, farmers and farm workers in north Florida have done battle with an almost endless array of destructive barn bugs in fields and pastures. Thrips, aphids, mites, nematodes and ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Invasive Species, Lawn, Livestock, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, Turf, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Agriculture, Bugs, Community, Environment, Extension, Farming, FCS, Florida, Garden, Gardening, General Information, Growing, Horticulture, Insects, Landscape, Lawn & Garden, Les Harrison, Living Well In The Panhandle, Master Gardener, Natural Wakulla, Plants, UF-IFAS, Wakulla, Wakulla Agriculture, Wakulla CED, Wakulla County, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension

Tri-Eagle Sales Partners with UF/IFAS Extension in Gadsden County for Wellness Initiative

by osgoodlb
August 14, 2018

Tri-Eagle Sales Partners with UF/IFAS Extension in Gadsden County for Wellness Initiative Gardening and Stress Management for Local Businesses Midway, FL – Tri-Eagle Sales and the UF/IFAS Extension’s Family and Consumer Sciences ... READ MORE

Category: Community Volunteers, Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, Recreation, Work & Life
Tags: Family And Consumer Sciences, Gadsden, Panhandle Gardening

Bone UP with Strong Bodies

by Jana Anderson
August 14, 2018

Strong Bodies is a 12 week weight training program designed specifically to improve the health of residents by preventing or reducing their risk of chronic diseases like osteoporosis, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Strong Bodies has been ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & Life
Tags: Bone Health, Exercise, Food, Fruits And Vegetables, Healthy Eating, Healthy Living, Nutrition

Transplanted Avocado Tree

by Ed Thralls
August 10, 2018

My neighbor just transplanted this avocado tree from his yard to mine. As you can see in the picture it has some very low growing branches and I wondered how long to wait after transplanting to both trim the lower branches to make it be ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture
Tags: Avocado Tree, Fruits And Vegetables, Transplanting

Garden Festival is replacing the Master Gardener Plant Sale

by David Austin
August 7, 2018

Garden Festival and Plant Sale They say time flies while you're having fun. This may explain why the Garden Festival feels like it is coming so quickly. Yes, the Annual Plant Sale, which comes on the 3rd Week of November every year, is morphing ... READ MORE

Category: Clubs & Volunteers, Community Volunteers, Events, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Festival, Gardening, Highlands County, Master Gardener, Master Gardeners, Plant Sale, Tomato

Yard to Table: Cutting Celery

by Amy Vu
August 2, 2018

I don’t use celery very often, and I hate having to buy a whole bunch of it to get a stalk or two for a recipe. Luckily, I found the solution at a local plant sale - cutting celery! Cutting celery, also called leaf celery or Chinese celery, ... READ MORE

Category: Food Safety, Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension

Summer Vegetable Gardening in Central Florida

by William Lester
August 1, 2018

It never works out well! I’m amazed how many people ask our office or on social media why their vegetable plants look so bad here during the summer. “My tomatoes have black leaves, what is this insect, what is wrong with my kale and what ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes

Edible Landscapes: The Native Flatwoods Plum

by BLOGS.IFAS
July 31, 2018

One of the small native trees in the Exploration Gardens is the Flatwoods Plum, Prunus umbellate. This round-topped, deciduous tree is mostly planted for its spectacular display of blooms. In late February, before the leaves appear, these trees ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture
Tags: Cflandscapes, Edible Lanscapes, Exploration Gardens, Flatwoods Plum

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