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Seedlings to Start in February for Spring Vegetables

Which seedlings you should start this month for your garden. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Even though February is cold in most parts of the country, it is time to begin thinking about the garden. And, the time to start sowing seeds. There are lots of garden vegetables that don’t mind a touch of frost here and …

Orange Juice: A Fruit or a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage?
A recent international nutrition symposium concluded that evidence supports classifying 100% fruit juice — including 100% orange juice — as a form of fruit rather than as a sugar-sweetened beverage. Unlike sugar-sweetened beverages, 100% orange juice contains naturally occurring sugars from the fruit itself, with no added sugar, the Florida Department of Citrus (FDOC) noted […]
Three Years of OTC Trunk Injection Provide Cumulative Benefits
By Ute Albrecht, Gabriel Pugina and Larissa Nunes According to a recent industry survey, 64% of Florida citrus growers have injected their trees for three consecutive years with oxytetracycline (OTC). This article reports the results from three research trials conducted by the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Plant Physiology Team […]