Escambia County Master Gardener Volunteers invite you to reserve your spot for their first plant sale in 2022. This event will have edibles and a selection of perennials. Cash or check only. The event will be Saturday, March 19 from 8:30 ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables
The ag sector thrives throughout Suwannee County and for producers to continue to be successful, they require up-to-date information on new emerging crops. One research project being conducted at the NFREC-SV is examining Calabaza Squash as ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Horticulture, Pests & Disease![An array of winter squash in the field [CREDIT: UF/IFAS]](https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/sarasotaco/wp-content/blogs.dir/40/files/2020/10/2020_FCS_blogSquashPumpkin_ifas01CROP1338x357_TINY.jpg)
Did you know that squash varieties that are harvested in the fall are known as winter squash? Winter squash has a lot of varieties including acorn, butternut, Hubbard and spaghetti squash and of course it's cousin, pumpkin. Winter squash ... READ MORE
Category: Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Squash plants produce plenty of flowers but the fruit grows an inch or two and then dies. It looks like blossom end rot but is probably lack of pollination. Squash and related plants including melons and cucumbers have both male and female ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Winter squash Winter squash are hard-skinned edible members of the gourd family. In contrast to tender, young summer squash, winter squash are harvested at a mature stage when the skins have grown hard. Packed with nutrients, winter squash ... READ MORE
Category: Health & Nutrition, Home Management, UF/IFAS Extension
A: I suspect your squash is not getting pollinated. Squash, in addition to all the cucurbits like watermelon and cucumbers, have male and female flowers. In order for the female to produce completely mature fruit; her flower must be pollinated ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home LandscapesA: Several beetles (some spotted or striped) have been known to cause damage to the cucurbit plant family, which includes melons, squashes and cucumbers. The larvae of these beetles feed on roots of the plants as soon as they start to grow by ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Q: Last year I had the ends rot out of watermelon and cantaloupe. They bloom but no fruit developed. This year, I planted zucchini instead and I am getting the same problem. The fruit is rotting out from the bloom end. I now have cantaloupe ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Pests & Disease
It won’t be long until row crops and vegetable gardens are planted and thriving once again next spring. A sometimes taken for granted, yet critical element of any prosperous crop is successful pollination. Most of us know what “text book” ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Horticulture