If my family depended on my gardening skills, we'd starve. But I'm continuing to learn and I have had some successes thanks to helpful resources and online advice from the University of Florida and ...

As we are about to move into a new year, I wanted to share with you a gardening resource that you can use throughout the year. It’s the UF/IFAS Extension North Florida Gardening Calendar created by ...

What can I plant now? What are cool season vegetables? Can I grow herbs from seeds? Ah, fall, when a Florida gardener comes out of summer, air-conditioned hibernation. If you are like me, you do the ...

I enjoy seeing residents grow some of their own food. It can be as small as growing a tomato plant on their balcony or as big as growing five acres of fruit trees. The amount of food grown doesn’t ...

We’ve had a week of very cold weather, with some areas even getting snow. Now we have some seasonal Florida winter weather without freezes and highs in the 60s and 70s. It’s tempting to think our ...

In this video, I begin building a raised vegetable garden bed and we take a look at what's been happening on our self-sufficient property over the past several days. Self Sufficient Me is based on our ...

Vegetable gardening in Florida is different from the other states in the contiguous United States. In the other states, planting begins in the spring and ends in the fall In Florida, we do the ...

As we look toward the approach of fall, many gardeners are warming up to the idea of cool season crops. Most of what we think of when it comes to vegetable gardens are annuals like tomatoes, cucumbers ...