Water woes and your landscape: A new episode of Your Central Florida Yard podcast

Your central Florida yard podcast cover with butterfly, tomato plant, and saw palmetto leafWater woes and your landscape

In this episode of Your Central Florid Yard, we talk water woes. Water is essential and gardeners know this. But what do we do when the rain stops, the water bills rise, and those watering restrictions kick in? Don’t fret! We’ve got the solutions you need to keep your landscape thriving, rain or shine.

A new episode out now from Your Central Florida Yard

Your Central Florida Yard, a podcast from UF/IFAS Extension Polk County has a new episode on water woes and your landscape. Listen to it on Spotify (below) or where ever you listen to podcasts.

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Your garden checklist

Take some time to consider your role in helping to conserve and protect Florida’s water resources. As gardeners we love plants and enjoy creating beautiful outdoor spaces but consider ways that you can save water in your own landscape. Remember to adjust your irrigation seasonally, choose drought-tolerant plants, and use less water by installing a rain barrel, including mulch in your landscape planting beds, and using microirrigation for new plants or other plants that need supplemental irrigation. 

Learn more

For more information, contact UF/IFAS Extension Polk County at (863) 519-1041 or visit us online at http://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/polk. The Plant Clinic is open Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-4:00 pm to answer your gardening and landscaping questions. Give us a call or email us at polkmg@ifas.ufl.edu.

If you are not in Polk County, Contact your local UF/IFAS Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Plant Clinic.

The Florida Master Gardener Volunteer Program is a volunteer-driven program that benefits UF/IFAS Extension and the citizens of Florida. The program extends the vision of the University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, all the while protecting and sustaining natural resources and environmental systems, enhancing the development of human resources, and improving the quality of human life through the development of knowledge in agricultural, human and natural resources and making that knowledge accessible.

Learn about other episodes from Your Central Florida Yard by Clicking Here.

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Posted: May 6, 2024


Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes
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