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Apply now to become a Master Gardener Volunteer in Pinellas County!

by Theresa Badurek
February 24, 2025

Would you like to be a Pinellas County Master gardener Volunteer? Read on to learn more and apply. Apply here now through March 31, 2025 for the 2025 fall class. You must be a current Pinellas County Resident 18 or older to apply and ... READ MORE

Category: Events, Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, Professional Development, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & Life
Tags: Event, Garden, Gardening, Master Gardener

Ethnobotany at Boyd Hill Nature Preserve

by Theresa Badurek
December 22, 2023

By Rebekah Heppner, Pinellas County Master Gardener Volunteer What the heck is Ethnobotany? Good question. Ethnobotany refers to the scientific study (like botany, get it?) of how people (that’s the ethno part) have traditionally used plants ... READ MORE

Category: Events, Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, Work & Life
Tags: Botany, Ethnobotany, Florida Gardening, Gardening, Master_gardeners

April is Water Conservation Month

by Theresa Badurek
March 29, 2023

By Doris Heitzmann, Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ (FFL) Program Manager As we are headed towards the dry season, with April being one of our driest months, we are reminded that some easy steps before and during the dry season can keep ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, Professional Development, SFYL Hot Topic, Work & Life
Tags: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Garden, Gardening, Landscape, Water, Water Conservation, Water Conservation Month

Three Farms and a Beehive

by Theresa Badurek
March 14, 2023

By Rebekah Heppner, Pinellas County Master Gardener Volunteer The Pinellas Master gardeners visited the Pinellas Beekeepers site at St. Pete College Apiary recently. It was a truly unique experience to actually hold those worker bees in my ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, Work & Life
Tags: Aquaponic, Beekeeping, Farm, Food, Garden, Gardening, Master_gardeners, Organic

Appalled by Galls

by Theresa Badurek
June 22, 2022

By Rebekah Heppner, Pinellas County Master Gardener Volunteer I was very excited when my starry rosinweed (Silphium integrifolium) came back after looking dead all winter. Then it bloomed. Or at least it tried to. Where the flower should ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, Work & Life
Tags: Gall, Garden, Gardening, Insects, Master Gardener, Midges, Wildflowers

Stars of the Garden: Resident Butterflies of Pinellas County

by Theresa Badurek
March 16, 2022

Stars of the Garden: Resident Butterflies of Pinellas County is available in the lawn and garden section of the Pinellas County Extension Service website. This seventy-page online/PDF resource, compiled by Ellen Mahany, Master Gardener Volunteer, ... READ MORE

Category: , Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, Work & Life
Tags: Butterflies, Butterfly, Butterfly Garden, Gardening, Master Gardener

Bye Bye Birdies

by Theresa Badurek
February 18, 2022

Written By: Rebekah Heppner, Master Gardener Volunteer Trainee It’s Christmas Day. Sunny and mild. I am on my screen porch talking to my sister on the phone when it happens. Out of the corner of my eye, I spot Evil Cat as he takes off in ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Backyard Birds, Bird, Cat, Garden, Gardening

Dog Days of Summer

by Theresa Badurek
September 2, 2021

by Rebekah Heppner, Master Gardener Volunteer Trainee Wikipedia says that the dog days of summer refers to “the period following the heliacal rising of the star system Sirius, which Hellenistic astrology connected with heat, drought, sudden ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, Work & Life
Tags: Dog Days, Garden, Gardening, Master Gardener, Summer, Summer Gardening

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

Every Serious Garden Needs a Trommel!

by Theresa Badurek
April 13, 2021

Jay Gould, Master Gardener Volunteer Trainee What’s a trommel? Websters defines a trommel as: a usually cylindrical or conical revolving screen used especially for screening or sizing rock, ore, or coal. So, why does a gardener need one? ... READ MORE

Category: , Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Work & Life
Tags: Compost, Garden, Gardening, Master Gardener, Mulch, Trommel

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