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Jaboticaba and some of its uses.

Suncoast Grown and Gathered: March Jaboticaba – A Bountiful Harvest from Trunk to Table!

by Forest Hecker
March 14, 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 Landscapes, Horticulture
Tags: Eating Locally Grown, EatingLocallyGrown, Edible Gardening QOTW, EdibleGardeningSeries, FFL, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Food, Garden, Grown And Gathered, GrownAndGathered, Horticulture, Landscape, Landscaping, Pgm_HortRes

Suncoast Grown and Gathered: December Macadamia Nuts

by Forest Hecker
December 22, 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 edible plants 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, EdibleGardeningSeries, FFL, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Food, Garden, Grown And Gathered, GrownAndGathered, Horticulture, Landscape, Landscaping, Pgm_HortRes
Yellow flower from a luffa plant. Photo taken 07-19-22. UF/IFAS Photo by Cat Wofford

Summer Style! ABCs of Edible Gardening for Your Newcomer Kit

by Mindy Hanak
June 14, 2024

Yes, you CAN grow food in Florida year-round. BUT it is important to take a few things into consideration before taking the sweaty plunge into hot season vegetable gardening. Here we aim to share garden tasks and ideas that are seasonally appropriate ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, Home Landscapes, Work & Life
Tags: Agriculture, EdibleGardeningSeries, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Food, Garden, Health, Horticulture, Nutrition, Pgm_Gardens, Vegetable Gardening
tomatoes on plant

Ways to Save: Grow Seasonal ‘Smarts’ For Your Vegetable Garden

by Mindy Hanak
March 31, 2023

Do you have a spring planting habit? If you are interested in growing food crops in your Florida garden it is very important to keep your seasons in mind when selecting what you will plant. I may break your heart when I tell you that now is ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Work & Life
Tags: EdibleGardeningSeries, Food, Garden, Pgm_Gardens, Pollinator, Pollinators, Save, Saving, Shop, Shopping, Vegetable Gardening, WaysToSave
fresh garden vegetables

Edible Gardening Series: Question of the Week – insect vision and colors

by Carol Wyatt-Evens
April 21, 2021

By Carol Wyatt-Evens and Sarah Bostick Gardening in Florida can be incredibly rewarding and incredibly frustrating, at the same time. If you are new to the region, you soon learn that gardening in the Sunshine State can quickly become a full-time ... READ MORE

Category: Natural Resources, Work & Life
Tags: Edible Gardening QOTW, EdibleGardeningSeries, Garden, Insect, Insects, Land Insects, Landscape Insects, Pgm_Ag, Pgm_Chemicals
fresh garden vegetables

Edible Gardening Series: Question of the Week – spider mites

by Carol Wyatt-Evens
April 8, 2021

By Carol Wyatt-Evens and Sarah Bostick Gardening in Florida can be incredibly rewarding and incredibly frustrating, at the same time. If you are new to the region, you soon learn that gardening in the Sunshine State can quickly become a full-time ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Work & Life
Tags: Biorational, Edible Gardening QOTW, EdibleGardeningSeries, Garden, Gardening, Insects, Land Insects, Landscape Insects, Pgm_Ag, Pgm_Chemicals, Spider Mites
Students hand picking blueberries at the Horticultural Teaching Gardens during the Spring Festival.

Edible Gardening Series: Question of the Week – aphids

by Carol Wyatt-Evens
March 11, 2021

By Carol Wyatt-Evens and Sarah Bostick Gardening in Florida can be incredibly rewarding and incredibly frustrating, at the same time. If you are new to the region, you soon learn that gardening in the Sunshine State can quickly become a full-time ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Work & Life
Tags: Ag, Agriculture, Biorational, Edible Gardening QOTW, EdibleGardeningSeries, Insects, Land Insects, Landscape Insects, Pgm_Ag, Pgm_Chemicals
fresh garden vegetables

Edible Gardening Series: Question of the Week – Growing in Containers

by Ralph Mitchell
March 2, 2021

By Sarah Bostick and Carol Wyatt-Evens Gardening in Florida can be incredibly rewarding and incredibly frustrating at the same time. If you are new to the region, you soon learn that gardening in the sunshine state can quickly become a full-time ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Fruits & Vegetables, SFYL Hot Topic, Work & Life
Tags: Ag, Agriculture, Edible Gardening QOTW, EdibleGardeningSeries, Garden, Gardening, Pgm_Ag, Pgm_Chemicals, Tomato; Container Gardening
fresh garden vegetables

Edible Gardening Series: Question of the Week – Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus

by Kristie Popa
February 23, 2021

By Sarah Bostick and Carol Wyatt-Evens Gardening in Florida can be incredibly rewarding and incredibly frustrating at the same time. If you are new to the region, you soon learn that gardening in the sunshine state can quickly become a full-time ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Home Landscapes
Tags: Ag, Agriculture, Edible Gardening QOTW, EdibleGardeningSeries, Food, Garden, Horticulture, Pgm_Ag, Pgm_Chemicals, Tomato, Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus
fresh garden vegetables

Edible Gardening Series: Question of the Week – Silverleaf Whitefly

by Kristie Popa
February 23, 2021

By Sarah Bostick and Carol Wyatt-Evens Gardening in Florida can be incredibly rewarding and incredibly frustrating at the same time. If you are new to the region, you soon learn that gardening in the sunshine state can quickly become a full-time ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Home Landscapes
Tags: Ag, Agriculture, Edible Gardening QOTW, EdibleGardeningSeries, Garden, Insect, Insects, Land Insects, Landscape, Landscape Insects, Pgm_Ag, Pgm_Chemicals, Whitefly

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