Category: Home Landscapes
Grow Your Green Expertise with the Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Professional Certification
August 12, 2025
Florida’s landscapes are more than just beautiful; they’re vital to protecting our water, supporting wildlife, and maintaining our state’s natural charm. But keeping them thriving requires more than a good eye for plants. It takes science-based, ... READ MORE
Category: , Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Lawn, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension, WildlifeTags: Florida Friendly Landscape, Native Plants Florida, Pollinator Friendly, UF/IFAS Extension, Water Conservation Landscaping
Florida Gardening 101 – Soil Prep
August 12, 2025
One of the most important elements of a successful garden is soil, and today we will talk about how you can prepare your soil for your vegetable garden. What exactly is soil? It’s a mix of inorganic materials like sand and rock, ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, HorticultureTags: Florida Gardening, Fruits And Vegetables, Gardening In Florida, New Vegetable Gardener, Ocextension, Orange County, Raised Bed Gardening, Soil Amendments, Soil Preparation, UF/IFAS Extension Orange County
It is not too early to think about fall color – success with flowering kale and cabbage
August 11, 2025
It may seem really early to be thinking about the fall flower garden and bedding plants, but once you are in the middle of that season, it is often too late to act. Planning ahead, please consider growing one really tough and ornamental ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home LandscapesTags: Cabbage, Flowering Cabbage, Kale, Ornamental
Suncoast Grown and Gathered: August Dragonfruit
August 11, 2025
At the Sarasota County UF/IFAS Extension Office, we've been cultivating a Food Forest to showcase the most productive, unique, and often underutilized fruits suited to our distinctive southwest Florida climate. Through this project, ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home LandscapesTags: EdibleGardeningSeries, FFL, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Food, Garden, Horticulture, Landscape, Landscaping, Pgm_HortRes, Suncoast Grown And Gathered, SuncoastGrownAndGathered
Using Red Wiggler Worms to Compost Common Weeds
August 11, 2025
Will my worms eat that? Many people, myself included, look for every opportunity to skip a trip to the dumpster and instead, retain value. Several weeds in the garden are picked throughout the year, and you may be wondering: "do I really ... READ MORE
Category: Home Landscapes, Natural ResourcesTags: Compost, Waste Management, Worms
SoilKit for Turfgrass Soil Sampling
August 11, 2025
You have probably heard about the SoilKit testing option that is available at local UF IFAS Extension offices. Why would you want to use a new testing kit when the traditional soil testing kit is still available? UF IFAS Extension SoilKit ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, LawnTags: Lawns, Nutrients, Soil Testing, SoilKit, Turfgrass, UF/IFAS Extension
Florida’s Hidden Invaders: Invasive Houseplants
August 11, 2025
For much of the world, tropical plants are grown strictly as indoor houseplants because they need warm temperatures to thrive. But here in sunny Florida, many of these “houseplants” can survive year-round outdoors—and that can become a ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Home Management, Horticulture, Invasive SpeciesTags: Florida Friendly, Florida Gardening, Florida Wildlife, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Floridas-hidden-invaders, Garden, Gardening, Horticulture, Invasive Species, Invasives, Landscape, Landscape Management, Native Plants, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Extension Orange County
Florida’s Hidden Invaders: Tackling Invasive Species
August 8, 2025
Florida is a beautiful state filled with natural lands, ecological sites, and a flourishing ecosystem. Florida is home to many species of both native plants and animals, but unfortunately our year-round warm climate also makes it attractive ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Invasive SpeciesTags: Florida Friendly, Florida Gardening, Florida Wildlife, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Floridas-hidden-invaders, Garden, Gardening, Horticulture, Invasive Species, Invasives, Landscape, Landscape Management, Native Plants, Ocextension, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Extension Orange County
Urban Wildlife Corridors
August 6, 2025
An important and growing landscaping trend is gardening for wildlife. This important conservation effort can help our native small wildlife populations with plants that attract and support a wide variety of our native species, especially birds, ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, WildlifeTags: Anne Yasalonis, Ayasalonis, Central Florida, Florida Native, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Flowers, Gardening, Hurricane Preparedness, Master Gardener, Master Gardener Volunteer, Native Plant Month, Native Plants, Polk County, Polkgardening, Pollinator Plants, UF-IFAS, UF/IFAS Polk County, Your Central Florida Yard Podcast