Resources
Southern Gardening's Guide to
UF/IFAS Gardening Publications
The University of Florida and the
Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences
publish a truly massive number of documents of value to southern gardeners.
While you could obtain these documents by mail order or from your county extension
office, now, through the wonder of the World Wide Web, you can get them in a matter of
seconds at the click of a button.
- Our guide to the Master Gardener Notebook
- The Notebook is actually a collection of in-depth publications on plants, problems & techniques.
If you're looking for a particular gardening topic, start your search here.
- Our guide to the Vegetable Gardening Handbook
- Similarly, the Handbook is actually a collection of in-depth publications
on various veggies from A to Z. If you want to know about growing a particular
vegetable in Florida, start your search here.
- Organic Vegetable Gardening
- A good intro to organic gardening on a small scale
- Organic production of fruits & vegetables
- On a commercial scale
- Home Citrus Handbook
- Florida Yards & Neighborhoods Handbook
- The official publication of the Florida Yards & Neighborhoods Program, encouraging
xeriscaping, greater use of native plants, and less reliance on chemicals and energy
to maintain conspicuously unused urban cow pastures.
-
Florida Lawn Handbook
- Environmental landscaping
- Enviroscaping
- Starting a Wholesale Nursery Business
- Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies
-
Florida Weeds
- Weed Management Guide
- Waste management
- Has several chapters on composting.
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Butterfly gardening
Environmental Horticulture
Environmental Horticulture is a field of study that deals with the art and science of breeding, propagating, installing and maintaining plants that are used to enhance and improve the human environment. Proper selection and placement of plants in the exterior and interior landscapes is a major factor in creating and maintaining an environment that promotes a feeling of psychological well-being and physical comfort.
Most of the UF publications divide
the state of Florida into three sections: southern, central, and northern.
Recommendations for northern Florida will usually be applicable to the
entire Coastal South region, from Texas to South Carolina. (When in doubt,
consult your county's Cooperative — they really are — Extension Office.)
Many of these publications are available in "Portable Document Format" (PDF) and require
that you have Adobe Acrobat Reader® software on your computer.
If the on-screen (HTML) version of the publication has this symbol in the upper-right corner of the screen
We recommend that you first take a look at the HTML version of the
document you're interested in before downloading the PDF version for
printing later. (HTML is the standard World Wide Web format for
displaying documents online.)
We also recommend that if you plan to print a number
of the documents (it's hard to resist), set the left print margin so
that it's wide enough for a three-hole punch — then save the documents
in a three-ring binder.
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