Try the National eXtension website for general Consumer Horticulture questions. Or type a question below, add your email, and hit the "ask" button:

Consumers & Homeowners:

Want to buy locally? Check out our Okeechobee Green Pages!

For Florida Friendly Landscaping information, go to FloridaYards.org.

For Dooryard Fruit information, go to the Fruitscapes info website.

Home Grown Citrus fruit Shipping Instructions: click here to get pdf document.

For home vegetable gardening publications, go to the UF EDIS Vegetable Gardening website. For specific publications on specific Vegetables or Fruit, go here to an index on the EDIS website.

To see about exhibiting Vegetables at the Okeechobee County Fair, click here. For information about our Vegetable Judging and Identification contest, click here.

For information about ornamental plants, visit our county Master Gardeners or go to the UF/IFAS Department of Environmental Horticulture website.

UF/IFAS Soil Testing Laboratory - for information on fee-paid soil and water testing services, and download sample submission forms. Local residents can get FREE soil pH tests, sample bags and mailing boxes at our office.

Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services - A to Z Resource Guide or call 1-800-HELP-FLA

Commercial Nursery Growers: For Information about Irrigation, Best Management Practices, about Starting a Nursery or Nursery Grades & Standards, go to our Nursery Grower page.

Sod Growers: click on the grass for turfgrass links on our Agriculture Page

2003 Florida Sod Industry Report - Click here!

Economic Impacts of the Turfgrass and Lawncare Industry in the United States (2006)

UF Horticulture Links: Ornamental Crops

Professional Landscapers Master Gardeners Home Landscaping

Citrus Producers Temperate Fruit Tropical Fruit Vegetable Growers

Pest Management Pest Bulletins:

For current Pest Alerts, click here

680 Tree Fact Sheets

514 Landscape Plant Fact Sheets

Links for Commercial Landscapers

& Pest Management Professionals:

2009 UF/IFAS Pest Control Guide for Turfgrass Managers

1.42 MB - 83 pp. 2009 edition - please destroy previous editions!

Florida Green Industries: Best Management Practices for Protection of Water Resources [1.1 MB pdf document - 68 pages, 2008 revision]

Irrigation Evaluation - Resource page

Insect Management on Landscape Plants

Maintaining Athletic Fields

Limited L&O Pesticide License Information package - 4/2007

Last update: 09/08/2009 .

This page is maintained by Dan Culbert

UF/IFAS Horticultural Web links:

ENVIRONMENTAL HORTICULTURE http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu
GULF COAST RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER http://gcrec.ifas.ufl.edu
MID FLORIDA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER http://mrec.ifas.ufl.edu
NORTH FLORIDA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER http://nfrec.ifas.ufl.edu
TROPICAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER http://trec.ifas.ufl.edu
INDIAN RIVER RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER http://irrec.ifas.ufl.edu
FORT LAUDERDALE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER http://flrec.ifas.ufl.edu
WEST FLORIDA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER http://wfrec.ifas.ufl.edu