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Tomatoes: A Nutritional Powerhouse and Culinary Favorite

by Elizabeth Shephard
April 7, 2025

Tomatoes–who doesn’t love them? They have so many uses and are featured in many of our favorite foods. Whether made into a rich sauce for pasta, diced up in your favorite salsa, or sliced on a burger, tomatoes are versatile enough to be ... READ MORE

Category: Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Bruschetta, Chicken, Food Preparation, Food Safety, National Tomato Month, Nutrition, Recipe, Tomato, Vegetable

Nutrient Management for Vegetable Growers in the Florida Panhandle

by Abbey Smith
April 7, 2025

Best Management Practices (BMPs) for water quality enhancement and conservation are essential to the long-term sustainability of agriculture and natural resources in Northwest Florida. BMPs allow producers to gain knowledge and understand how ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Crops, Horticulture, Nutrition, Vegetable

Succession Planting in the Vegetable Garden

by Tia Silvasy
March 10, 2025

Succession planting is a gardening technique to maximize production with space and time. This can be used with the same crop to extend the harvest or the same or with different crops suchas planting green beans on two week intervals, or replacing ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Cabbage, Florida, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Green Beans, Hillsborough, Smart Gardening Techniques, Succession, Tampa, Vegetable, Vegetable Gardening

Fundraising for a Community Garden

by Kaleena Davis
February 19, 2025

Part of the reality of running a community garden is finding a way to fund the garden. There are multiple ways to secure funds garden, so let’s take a look at some of the basic types of fundraising and some tips to help your garden grow financially! Types ... READ MORE

Category: Community Volunteers, Florida-Friendly Landscaping
Tags: Community Garden, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Funding, Fundraising, Garden, Hillsborough County, Kaleenadavis, Vegetable

Prepping For Your Spring Vegetable Garden

by Calvin Gardner
February 6, 2025

Your New Garden Calendar Florida is a wonderful place for growing vegetables throughout the winter. This is what makes us special compared to other states. But before you go planting anything, you will want to make sure you are planting the ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables
Tags: Fruits And Vegetables, Gardening, Horticulture, New Vegetable Gardener, Ocextension, Orange County, Vegetable, Vegetable Gardening

Plant Propagation 101

by Tia Silvasy
January 31, 2025

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, Hybrid, Plant Propagation, Seed, Seeds, Vegetable

How to Succeed at Starting Seeds

by Kaleena Davis
January 28, 2025

As the weather get warmer, starting seeds can provide a jump on the growing season. In this article, we are going to cover a couple of tips to help you better succeed at growing seedlings for your garden. If you are just starting out, learn ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables
Tags: Central Florida, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Garden, Gardening, Kaleenadavis, Seeds, Vegetable

Winter is Coming: Protect Your Plants from the Cold

by Clarissa Chairez
January 6, 2025

One of my favorite things about Florida is our year-round warm weather. However, when we occasionally get cold weather that falls below freezing, we need to prepare our tropical loving plants. Certain varieties of palm trees, avocadoes, mangoes, ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: (MGV), Agroecology, Cold Protection For Plants, Cold Weather, FFL, Florida, Florida Friendly, Florida Master Gardener, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Freeze, Freeze Damage In Florida Gardens, Freeze Protection, Frost, Frost Cloth, Frost Protection Techniques, Fruits And Vegetables, Garden, Gardening, Gardening Tip, Horticulture, Landscape Management, Lawn, Master Gardener, Master Gardener Volunteer, OC MGV, Ocextension, Orange County Master Gardener, Plants, Trees, Tropical Plant Care In Winter, UF/IFAS Extension Orange County, Vegetable, Vegetable Gardening, Vegetables, Winter

Research Report: Dr. Shouan Zhang

by moniquescoggin
December 29, 2024

In this installment of the UF/IFAS TREC’s Research Report, you’ll learn about Dr. Shouan Zhang and the research being conducted in his vegetable pathology lab. Dr. Shouan Zhang’s research program focuses on the detection and identification ... READ MORE

Category: Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Research,
Tags: Alternative Crops, Disease, Plant Pathology, Research, Tropical Research And Education Center, Vegetable

Edible Landscaping in Central Florida

by Tia Silvasy
June 6, 2024

View the recording of the Edible Landscaping for Central Florida webinar on YouTube. The concept of edible landscaping primarily applies to growing vegetables, herbs and fruit trees in a way where it fits in with your home landscape. ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Forests, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Lawn, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: Compost, Dragonfruit, Edible Landscaping, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Food, Fruit, Herbs, Irrigation, Soil, Tsilvasy, Vegetable

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