Get The Dirt: For The Love Of Mulch And Mulching!
I still love to mulch. It’s relaxing; I’m outdoors and can see immediate results of my labor! It’s multitasking too: mulching while thinking about...
Get The Dirt: Gift Ideas For Gardeners
Whether you are gifting a significant other, relative, friend or casual acquaintance, it’s time to think outside of the box. A significant classic...
Get The Dirt: Bette S. Walker Discovery Garden
Interested in innovative ideas for your landscape? Need a mini getaway? Now is a great time to visit the Bette S. Walker Discovery Garden,...
Vegetable Gardens As An Addition To Your Landscape
As of July 1, Senate Bill 82 was approved regarding residential vegetable gardens. It prohibits county, municipality or other political subdivisions from regulating vegetable...
Get The Dirt: Holiday Gift Ideas For The Gardeners In Your...
With Christmas and the new year right around the corner, it’s time to ponder what to give your gardening friends. The classic holiday plant...
Home Composting Workshops Offers By Extension
Did you know that we, the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Hillsborough County Extension, offer Home Composting workshops to our...
Get The Dirt: Container Gardening
By Lynn Barber, Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Agent, and Sonya Rose, Urban Horticulture/4H Program Coordinator, UF/IFAS Extension Hillsborough County
Container gardens are quite popular today and...
Get The Dirt: Hurricanes, A Landscape Pruning Opportunity
By Lynn Barber, Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ agent, and Susan Haddock, commercial horticulture agent
Hurricanes provide many of us with the ‘opportunity’ to prune our landscape plants...
Get The Dirt With Florida Yard Expert
Attracting wildlife including pollinators is one of the nine principles of the Florida-Friendly LandscapingTM program. It is important that we choose landscape plants which...
Get The Dirt: Spice Up Your Holidays
More holidays are upon us. Some favorite spices include rosemary, sage and marjoram.
Rosemary is a fragrant herb that is easy to grow and...