Category: Fruits & Vegetables

In The Garden Now: Heirlooms

by BLOGS.IFAS
August 13, 2016

By Les Harrison Wakulla County Extension Director As the old saying goes “August weather is fit for neither man nor beast,” and it is not making gardening a lot of fun either. High humidity, 90 degree plus temperature, and a bumper crop ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: Extension, Garden, Heirlooms, Lawn & Garden, Lawn And Garden, Les Harrison, Master Gardener, Plants, Vegetable, Wakulla, Wakulla County Extension, What's In The Garden

In The Garden Now: Eggplants

by BLOGS.IFAS
August 4, 2016

By Les Harrison, UF/IFAS Wakulla County Extension Director, and Gohar Umar, FAMU Horticulture Specialist. The summer temperatures have transformed the vegetable gardens of Wakulla County. The daily 90 degree plus thermometer readings and ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: Eggplant, Extension, Garden, Gohar Umar, Lawn & Garden, Lawn And Garden, Les Harrison, Master Gardener, Wakulla County Extension, What's In The Garden

Value of Bees to Blueberry Fruit Set

by Josh Campbell
August 1, 2016

Florida Blueberry Industry Blueberry growers in central and south Florida mostly utilize the highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum). It does not require many chill hours (the necessary number of hours where temperatures fall between 32 and ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Beekeeping, Bees, Jcampbell, Research Update, UFHoneyBeeLab

In The Garden Now: Blueberries

by BLOGS.IFAS
June 27, 2016

By Les Harrison, UF/IFAS Wakulla County Extension Director and Gohar Umar, FAMU Horticulture Extension Agent The cold temperatures in Wakulla County’s latest winter were few and relatively mild. The near triple digit readings this week ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: Blueberies, Gohar Umar, Les Harrison, What's In The Garden

Creating Kid Locavores

by ccooley
June 24, 2016

One of the best part of my job at GCREC is hosting tour groups from local schools. We recently had the opportunity to entertain a group of 45 STEM students from a local school, R. Bruce Wagner, and we introduced them to something new called ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Events, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture, UF/IFAS
Tags: Blueberries, Elementary School Kids, Farmers Markets, Fruits And Vegeables, Gulf Coast Research Center, Locavores, Produce, Strawberries, Student, UF-IFAS

Are there heirloom hot peppers?

by Rebecca Jordi
June 7, 2016

Yes, we have many heirloom hot peppers which can be grown in several parts of Florida. Remember, the term “heirloom” vegetables means you can use the seeds from the fruit and produce future plants year after year. Hot peppers are native ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: Heirloom Hot Peppers

My Ghost peppers are not producing well, what could be wrong?

by Rebecca Jordi
June 7, 2016

The Ghost pepper, Bhut jolokia, requires temperatures above 70º degrees F for 5 months to produce fruit or peppers. We are just now reaching those temperatures on a regular basis. We may not be hot enough for a long enough period of time to ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: Ghost Peppers

What’s In The Garden Now

by BLOGS.IFAS
May 13, 2016

Be sure to visit “What’s In The Garden Now” for our monthly crop feature. This month’s feature is Tomatoes and Peppers: Two locally popular vegetables are currently being cultivated in the UF/IFAS Wakulla County Master Gardener ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Garden, Growing, Horticulture, In The Garden Now, Lawn & Garden, Les Harrison, Master Gardener, Peppers, Plants, Tomatoes, Vegetables, Wakulla, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension, What's In The Garden Now

So You Want to Start a Vegetable Garden?

by Samantha Murray
April 25, 2016

Maybe you’ve been admiring a neighbor’s vegetable garden, or maybe you think having the freshest possible vegetables right in your back yard would be delicious. Maybe you just want an excuse to get outside! Whatever your reasons, starting ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Lawn & Garden Hot Topic, Vegetable Gardening

Peach Tree Project

by jswilson
April 15, 2016

Sumter County 4-H and FFA Peach Tree Project McAvoy, C.E. and Taylor, K.A 1) Situation and Objectives: Starting in 2014, the peach tree project was offered to 4-H and FFA youth in Sumter County as an opportunity to learn how to grow a food ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture
Tags: Central, CentralDistrict, McAvoy, Peach, Symposium, Taylor

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