Tomatoes are popular in the home garden and the Extension office receives many calls from gardeners concerning their tomato troubles. Willie Chance, Extension Vegetable Crops Specialist in Georgia, describes common tomato problems in today’s ... READ MORE
Category: Events, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
If you want to know how best to prune a fruit tree or even how to plant one, Alicia Lamborn can do more than just tell you—she can take you out back and show you. Lamborn, a horticulture agent with the University of Florida Institute of ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, Clubs & Volunteers, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, UF/IFAS Extension
Ashley R. Kendall, Nancy J. Gal, and Wendy J. Dahl2 Potassium is an essential mineral (also known as an electrolyte) required for normal body function. It is part of the fluid found inside and outside of body cells (intracellular and ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition
Blackberries, hops, pomegranates and more were highlighted at our recent Florida Ag Expo with a focus on providing alternative crops for central Florida growers. With the citrus greening issues nearly devastating Florida's top crop in recent ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Events, Farm Management, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Whiteflies feed exclusively on leaves, nearly always occurring on the undersurface. They suck juices from the plants and also excrete large quantities of honeydew in which sooty mold grows. Leaves will be sticky if there are many whiteflies ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & VegetablesDOORYARD FRUIT ALTERNATIVES FOR DYING CITRUS Bielema, UF|IFAS Extension, Collier County and D. L. Caldwell, UF|IFAS Extension, Collier County, 14700 Immokalee Rd., Naples, FL 34120 Situation and Problem Statement: Citrus greening disease ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home LandscapesExtending Education into Food Deserts: Extension Goes Mobile with Vegetable Gardening Lisa Hickey, University of Florida IFAS, Manatee County Extension Urban Horticulture Agent Situation: When the Urban Horticulture Program noticed low ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, Horticulture
Whether you garden in your backyard or patio, or just enjoy fresh, local food, One Seed is for you. One Seed is a shared, edible-gardening experience designed to build a community around food. Open to anyone, this new program launches this ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & VegetablesBy Les Harrison Wakulla County Extension Director Vegetable gardening has many highly desirable benefits. These range from it being a good source of exercise, an opportunity to produce fresh produce which may be ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Now that fall has arrived, the farm crew, faculty and staff of our strawberry program are hard at work preparing for another strawberry season in central Florida. It's one of the highlights of the year for our center when we get those bare ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, , Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture, UF/IFAS