Residential Horticulture --- A graduate of the University of Florida with a degree in Horticulture, Ed is a UF/IFAS Extension Orange County Agent and a Florida Nursery Growers and Landscapers “Florida Certified Horticulture Professional”. He is the recipient of the 2010 Master Gardener Professorship Award. Ed has been providing home landscape and gardening information to homeowners in the Central Florida area since 1998.

Posts by Ed Thralls:

• New Vegetable Gardener --- Herbs are a Cool Season Crop in Central Florida
• New Vegetable Gardener - What to do in the Summer Vegetable Garden?
• Mulch – Plants' “Best Friend”
• New Vegetable Gardener — Growing Vegetables in Containers
• Pest Management in the Landscape
• New Vegetable Gardener — Is it too Late to Start a Vegetable Garden?
• Cold Protection for Landscape Plants --- After the Event
• Holiday Plant Care – Should you Keep Them or Toss Them?
• New Vegetable Gardener --- Greens in the Cool Season Garden
• New Vegetable Gardener --- Cool Season Vegetable Gardening in Central Florida

• Peanut Butter Challenge
• Soil Testing for the Homeowner
• My Dog is Eating Mushrooms in the Yard
• New Vegetable Gardener --- Square Foot Gardening
• UF/IFAS Extension Orange County “Safely Resuming Operations”
• New Vegetable Gardener --- Compost and Composting
• New Vegetable Gardener --- Gardening with Kids
• New Vegetable Gardener --- No Backyard for a Garden???
• New Vegetable Gardener --- Organic Practices in the Backyard Vegetable Garden
• New Vegetable Gardener --- Gardening with Fewer Pesticides – Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

• New Vegetable Gardener --- Soil Testing; pH and Nutrients
• New Vegetable Gardener --- Irrigation and Fertilizer (Getting a Little Technical)
• New Vegetable Gardener --- Plan Your Garden
• New Vegetable Gardener --- Florida Soil Needs Help
• New Vegetable Gardener --- Growing Vegetables from Seeds or Transplants
• New Vegetable Gardener --- Why You Should Plant Your Own Vegetables?
• New Vegetable Gardener --- Where Should You Put Your Garden?
• New Vegetable Gardener --- Irrigation with Reclaimed Water
• New Vegetable Gardener -- Growing Vegetables in Central Florida
• COVID-19 Blues --- Enjoy a Daily Walk --- It will be good for you

• Programs, Meetings Postponed or Cancelled --- COVID-19
• Mark Your Calendars...
• Garden Home Remedies - Fact or Fiction?
• 2019 Telly Award Winner
• An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Pesticides
• Growing the Best Plants while Doing the Least Harm
• Planting Over a Septic Drain Field
• Weed Wars
• Cool Season Vegetables -- November in the Garden
• Lime Tree Trouble

• Nematode Infestation in the Lawn
• A Tree is Growing in an Odd Place
• Caterpillar in My Lawn, Is it the Sod Webworm?
• Insect Eating Hibiscus Leaves and Cutting Off Flower Buds
• Soil Tests at the UF/IFAS Extension Orange County Plant Clinic
• Transplanted Avocado Tree
• Potter’s Wasp Pot on the Wall
• Bolting Broccoli
• Earthworms Drying Up on the Sidewalks
• Assassin Bugs - Beneficial Predator

• Squash Fruits are Rotting on the Vine
• Wings Flapping Near Your Head in the Garden
• What Happened to the Small Green Lizards?
• Vultures are Important
• Tomato Hornworm in the Vegetable Garden
• Backyard Flock - Chicken Coop
• Square Foot Gardening
• Cool Season Vegetable Gardening