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Plant Propagation 101

by Tia Saracino
April 13, 2026

Every gardener should learn the basics of plant propagation so you can make lots of plants for cheap or free. The two primary methods are starting from seed or cuttings. Planting Seeds Growing plants from seed ensures you have good genetic ... READ MORE

Category: , Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Cuttings, Florida Native Plants, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Flowers, Heirloom, Home Landscapes, Hybrid, Plant Propagation, Seed, Seeds, Vegetable

Growing a Green Thumb; Starting with Seeds

by Barbara L. Edmonds
September 19, 2025

There may be instances when you want to sow seed in containers instead of directly sowing into the ground or a raised bed. Some vegetables easily adapt to being transplanted. Starting seeds in smaller containers and then moving them up to a ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: Growing A Green Thumb, Seed, Vegetable

Summer seed saving: A Master Gardener shares tips on wildflower propagation

by Megan Winslow
July 31, 2024

Lois McNamara has been growing wildflowers for more than two decades, but she still remembers the species that endeared her to the hobby: blue larkspur. (more…) READ MORE

Category: Community Volunteers, Horticulture, Work & Life
Tags: (MGV), Beach Sunflower, Blanket Flower, Blue Larkspur, Cat Wofford, Coreopsis, Cutleaf Coneflower, Extension, Garden, Gardening, Hobby, Horticulture, IFAS, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Lois McNamara, Master Gardener Volunteer, Megan Winslow, Seed, Seed Saving, Summer, Tickseed, UF, UF-IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Extension Alachua County, University Of Florida, Wildflower

Tips for Starting a Vegetable Garden

by Tia Saracino
August 28, 2023

For a deep dive into Vegetable Gardening in Central Florida, watch our YouTube of the webinar recording. Vegetable Gardening in Florida If you are getting started with growing your own vegetables in Florida, start by reading the Florida ... READ MORE

Category: , Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Central Florida, Compost, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Garden, Hillsborough, Landscape, Seed, Silvasy, Soil, Tampa, Tampa Bay, Tsilvasy, Vegetable, Vegetable Gardening, Video, YouTube

UF/IFAS Extension offers Spring Vegetable Gardening Class in Hybrid Format

by Tia Saracino
February 21, 2023

If you interested in growing your own food, then this class is for you! Join UF/IFAS Extension Hillsborough County on Thursday February 16th from 10am to 11:30am to learn what to plant when to get your spring vegetable garden started. This ... READ MORE

Category: , Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, Home Landscapes, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Central Florida, Class, Florida, Garden, Gardening, Master Gardener, Online Class, Seed, Spring, Tampa, Tampa Bay, Tia Silvasy, Transplants, Tsilvasy, Vegetable, Vegetable Gardening, Webinar

St. Augustinegrass Seed? Can’t buy that.

by Wayne Hobbs
November 16, 2022

Turfgrass can be tricky in Florida and at times, you may find some thin spots in your yard that you would like to improve. Originally coming from the Northeast, I remember throwing out some Tall Fescue or Kentucky Bluegrass seed to accomplish ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Lawn
Tags: Florida Friendly, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Garden, Landscaping, Lawn, Seed, St. Augustinegrass, Turf

Predicting Florida’s Weather with Persimmon Seed

by Karen Stauderman
September 21, 2022

I often wonder how folks could predict the coming winter weather PRIOR to our modern technologies. According to early folklore, it was the persimmon seed that was used for the forecast. As the saying goes, if you slice the seed in half, it will ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture
Tags: Fall, Persimmon, Predict, Seed, Weather

Growing a Green Thumb; Starting with Seeds

by Barbara L. Edmonds
August 31, 2022

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: Growing A Green Thumb, Seed, Vegetable

Controlling Summer Weeds

by BLOGS.IFAS
February 2, 2022

Les Harrison is the UF/IFAS Wakulla County Extension Director As parents ready their children for the new school year, nature is already preparing for next spring by sending out mass quantities of seeds for the coming year's growing season. ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes, Pests & Disease
Tags: Archive, Community, Control, Environment, Environmentally Friendly, Extension, Florida, Garden, General Information, Grow, Growing, Herbicide, Horticulture, Invasive, Landscape, Lawn & Garden, Les Harrison, Master Gardener, Natural Resources, Natural Wakulla, Pest, Pest Management, Plant, Plants, Pollinate, Seed, Seeds, UF-IFAS, Uncategorized, Wakulla, Wakulla CED, Wakulla County, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension, Weed

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