Comments on: Growing Your Own Food: Time to Get Back to the Garden http://www.jannorris.com/today-in-the-world-of-food-news/growing-your-own-food-time-to-get-back-to-the-garden/ Food, Restaurants, Recipes and Pre-Disney Florida Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:50:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: llco http://www.jannorris.com/today-in-the-world-of-food-news/growing-your-own-food-time-to-get-back-to-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-309 llco Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:45:31 +0000 http://www.jannorris.com/?p=1528#comment-309 One offshoot of home vegtable gardening is composting. It's a wonderful way of recycling nutrient rich organic waste into helpful garden fertilizer. It does wonders for Florida gardens and is easy to do. There are many sites online for those interested and all the new closed containers prevent critter infestations. The results are amazing. One offshoot of home vegtable gardening is composting. It’s a wonderful way of recycling nutrient rich organic waste into helpful garden fertilizer. It does wonders for Florida gardens and is easy to do. There are many sites online for those interested and all the new closed containers prevent critter infestations. The results are amazing.

]]> By: Lurch http://www.jannorris.com/today-in-the-world-of-food-news/growing-your-own-food-time-to-get-back-to-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-299 Lurch Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:44:50 +0000 http://www.jannorris.com/?p=1528#comment-299 The Mounts garden office and the extension service offices are separate. Both offer lots of info. The lobby of the extension service office, next to the Highway Patrol station, is loaded with pamphlets on every garden subject you can think of. They also have plenty of info online. See the Vegetable Gardening index page and do a search for your favorite edible: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/topic_vegetable_gardening Here's an example of one of their extensive info sheets: Tomatoes in the Florida Garden http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/document_vh028 The Mounts garden office and the extension service offices are separate. Both offer lots of info. The lobby of the extension service office, next to the Highway Patrol station, is loaded with pamphlets on every garden subject you can think of.

They also have plenty of info online. See the Vegetable Gardening index page and do a search for your favorite edible:
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/topic_vegetable_gardening

Here’s an example of one of their extensive info sheets:

Tomatoes in the Florida Garden
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/document_vh028

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