Category: Agriculture

Skip-a-Week of Irrigation

by Melissa West
February 6, 2026

There is still time to Skip-a-Week of Irrigation By Doris Heitzmann, Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Program Manager If you have an automatic sprinkler system, the winter months are the perfect time to save water and increase the health ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Lawn, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: Conservation, Florida Friendly, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Irrigation, Landscape, Landscaping, Lawn, Pinellas, Pinellas County, Pinellasco, Skip A Week, Sprinkler, Water

Don’t Let Your Plants Catch a Chill

by Theresa Badurek
January 26, 2026

Winter in Florida? Yes, we do get wintry days in Florida, although they are (thankfully) few and far between. Pinellas County is in USDA hardiness zone 10 and freezes are uncommon, but frosts can happen even when the forecast temps range in ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, Work & Life
Tags: Cold, Cold Protection, Freeze Protection, Frost, Frost Protection
Palm trees growing in Coral Springs, Florida.

Brand New “Planting Pinellas” Podcast from Master Gardeners Available Now!

by Theresa Badurek
March 28, 2025

We're thrilled to announce the launch of "Planting Pinellas," a brand-new podcast dedicated to sustainable gardening and landscaping in Pinellas County. Produced by passionate Master Gardener Volunteers from the Pinellas County Extension Office ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, Work & Life
Tags: Botany, Garden, Gardening, Horticulture, Master Gardener, Plants, Podcast

How Should the Pinellas County Green Industry Interpret a Freeze Warning or the Possibility of Killing Frost Events?

by Melissa West
December 3, 2024

By Stephen D. Robinson, Commercial Horticulture Agent In the Commercialized Green Industry, we are aware of the weather events that can include heavy rain, high winds, and prolonged periods of unseasonable hot weather.  Significant weather ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Freeze, Freezewarning, Frost, Greenindustry, Horticulture
Dr. Marc Branham collecting fireflies in Gainesville during the spring 2015 firefly season.

New Episode from Naturally Florida, “It’s Spooky Season, Let’s Chat About Bats

by Shannon Carnevale and Lara MilliganAvatar photo
October 18, 2022

Mummies, Ghosts, and Goblins – oh my! This spooky season, we’re chatting about bats in Florida! Thirteen species of Florida bats live here year-round and several more migrate in from the North or South at certain times of year. These ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, Wildlife
Tags: Bats, Ecosystem Services, Florida Ecosystem, Florida Wildlife, Lara Milligan, Living With Wildlife, Naturally Florida Podcast, Shannon Carnevale

Gardening with Excel-lence

by Theresa Badurek
May 25, 2021

Jay Gould, Master Gardener Volunteer Trainee Previously the many benefits of maintaining your garden journal in Word were described. Using the outlining and table of contents functions your record keeping, information retrieval, and gardening ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, Work & Life
Tags: Excel, Garden, Garden Journal, Garden Technology, Gardening, Master Gardener, Vegetable, Vegetable Gardening

Do your homework before getting those backyard chickens!

by Alyssa Bowers (Slavin)
March 1, 2021

The chicken has come a long way from the plains of Southeast Asia some seven to ten-thousand years ago, to a sacred animal to the Romans, and finally to household food and agricultural product in modern times. Chickens, thought to be the first ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, , Livestock
Tags: 4-H, Animal Science, Backyard Chickens, Chickens, Pinellas, Pinellasco, St Lucie, STEM, Urban Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Youth

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