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November 2024 First Friday with Florida First Detector

by Morgan Pinkerton
November 4, 2024

Recap of November 2024 First Friday with Florida First Detector This month we talked all about fruit flies! We focused on true fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. Florida has quite the history with non-native fruit flies. We have a few that ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Invasive Species, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, Professional Development, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Biosecurity, Citrus, Early Detection, FFD24-25, FloridaFirstDetector, Fruit, Fruit Flies, Invasive Species, Sample Submission

Fall Vegetable Gardening – What to Plant When in Central Florida

by Tia Silvasy
November 2, 2024

The weather has finally cooled enough to start the fall vegetable garden. Here are our UF/IFAS recommendations of what to plant when. Getting Ready Starting in September, start preparing your vegetable garden by removing weeds and amending ... READ MORE

Category: , Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Beets, Cabbage, Carrots, Central Florida, Florida Vegetable Gardening Guide, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruit And Vegetable, Green Beans, Tsilvasy, Vegetable Garden, Vegetable Gardening, Video, Videos, YouTube

Connecting Communities to Water: A Journey of Discovery and Conservation

by Lorna Bravo
November 1, 2024

Article by Urban Horticulture Agent Lorna Bravo & Commercial Horticulture Educational Specialist Giuseppe Di Giacinto The Water Ambassador Program In 2019, our Master Gardener Volunteer (MGV) program collaborated with UF professor Dr. ... READ MORE

Category: Community Volunteers, Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension, , Water, Wildlife
Tags: Bodies Of Water, Community, Conserve Water, Culture, Everglades, Extension Education, IFASwater, Miccosukee, Tree Islands, Water

Suncoast Grown and Gathered: October Persimmons

by Forest Hecker
October 31, 2024

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 Landscapes, Horticulture
Tags: Eating Locally Grown, EatingLocallyGrown, FFL, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Garden, Grown And Gathered, GrownAndGathered, Horticulture, Landscape, Landscaping, Pgm_HortRes, Suncoast Grown And Gathered, SuncoastGrownAndGathered
Carved pumpkin in a forest.

Halloween with a Horticultural Twist: Spider Mites and Poison Ivy

by Stella Canfield
October 31, 2024

Halloween is a time for ghosts, ghouls and goblins, but the real fright might be lurking right under your nose. From destructive pests to dangerous weeds, these formidable foes can transform your greenery into a gruesome graveyard.   Fangs ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Pests & Disease
Tags: Chris Marble, Entomology, Halloween, Herbicide, Horticulture, Lance Osborne, Landscape Weeds, Pests, Poison Ivy, Spider Mites, Weed Identification, Weeds
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Extension Master Gardeners Receive 2024 Extension for All Award

by Barbara L. Edmonds
October 30, 2024

When the man-of-the-mower and I relocated from Ohio to Florida, I had to learn how to garden in beach sand. In south-west Ohio, the soils are dark, loamy and have more organic matter than Florida soils. Sand does not hold much water or nutrients ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Levy County Extension, Master Gardener, Nature Coast Master Gardener, UF/IFAS Extension
person wearing jeans pushing a black fertilizer spreader in the grass.

GI-BMP Class in SPANISH 12/12/24

by Hannah Eason
October 30, 2024

El fertilizante es regulado en la Florida y en Orange County. Cada persona que aplica fertilizantes por contrato por ley está obligado obtener una certificación para la aplicacion de fertilizantes. El fertilizante está regulado porque sabemos ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Management, Horticulture, Lawn, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, Turf, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: Applicator, Best Management Practices, BMP BMPs, CEU, CEUs, Cflandscapes, Clases, Clases En Espanol, Commercial, Español, Fertilizer, Fertilizer Applicator, Fertilizer License, FFL, Florida, Florida Friendly, GIBMP, Green Industries, Green Industries Best Management Practices, Hwooten, Landscape, Ornamentals, Plants, Spanish, Spanish Class, Turf, Turfgrasses

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