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Time to prep for your fall Florida garden

July 15, 2022
Time to garden! With food prices climbing toward the sky it may be time to consider pulling that brown thumb out of your pocket and adding a little green paint to it.  Growing a garden can be a humbling experience, especially in Florida, but despite the fact, that you may feel your thumb is brown,…

UF-led center continues fight against diseases spread by mosquitoes, ticks

July 14, 2022
Established in 2016, the Southeast Regional Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Disease: The Gateway Program (SECVBD) will continue its work for another five years, thanks to renewed funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “The center is a team effort to help communities prevent, prepare and respond to vector-borne disease threats through applied research…

Snakes in Florida

July 13, 2022
The heat is on and the cold-blooded reptiles we love to hate are on the move through our landscapes. Scorned throughout history, snakes in Florida are most active through the warm seasons and are present throughout the state.   The reason they are prevalent is because their food sources are prevalent. Snakes eat insects, lizards, frogs,…

UF research: Norms, not knowledge, drive irrigation habits

July 12, 2022
Norms beat knowledge when it comes to irrigating homeowners’ lawns, new University of Florida research shows. For example, science tells us that if you replace at least one-third of the irrigated area of your yard or landscape with non-irrigated beds, you could save an average of 50,000 gallons of water per year. But homeowners take…

Doveweed: A Pesky Weed that may Destroy Your Lawn

July 12, 2022
Typically, this time of year many homeowners are tackling a variety of weeds in their landscapes. One of those weeds may very well be the invasive and aggressive weed known as Doveweed (Murdannia nudifflora). Doveweed emerges when average temperatures reach 65-70 degrees daily and germination continues into late fall. Doveweed is easily mistaken as St.…

Celebrate the Blues July is National Blueberry Month

July 12, 2022
Blueberries were once known as star berries because of the pointy flower calyxes on top of the berries. Blueberries have grown in North America for thousands of years. Native Americans dried the berries in the sun and crushed them into a powder to be used as a rub on meats. Whole berries were added to…

Memories of Muffins: A Reverie for National Berries Month

July 11, 2022
Growing up, every July my family would take a long road trip to visit family. One activity we always did together was go blueberry picking with my grandpa at a U-pick farm a short drive from his house. Everyone would fill a bucket—though we always joked we ate more than ended up in the buckets—then…

Sustainable Summer Activities

July 10, 2022
Longer and warmer days are here, it must be summer! There is so much to love about this season. Schools are out, the ocean is warm, and the roads are slightly less congested. If you’re feeling stuck on ideas for things to do this summer, try some of the following sustainable options. It’s important to…

DIY Salad Dressings: Adding Health and Flavor

July 10, 2022
It’s recommended that half our plates are fruits and vegetables and to include 2-3 different colors of produce each day to soak up a variety of health benefits. To add a little flavor, we may crack open a bottle of our favorite dressing and pour it on well past the serving size. Suddenly our salad…

A native plant with pizazz – tropical sage

July 8, 2022
A mass planting of tropical sage – eye appeal in the landscape Some native plants do not have the “pizazz” that many of our more exotic plants possess. However, one native that does give a show is the tropical sage. Also called wild sage, fireweed, scarlet salvia, or scarlet sage, this relatively small, Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ plant,…
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