Avocado, guava, jaboticaba, mango and starfruit — though their flavors are exotic, they can easily be grown here in the home garden. These tropicals tolerate temperatures to around 27 degrees ...

Columbus and other early voyagers to the Americas filled their travel journals with breathless descriptions of the tropical fruits they’d never seen before: avocados, papayas, pineapples, soursop, ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Fall can be a great time to plant lettuce. We all need to include some more greens in the diet. Lettuce loves cool temperatures and can withstand a light ...

Madeline May, past president of the Bonita Springs Tropical Fruit Club, has over 300 fruit and nut trees around her Fort Myers home. Her 5-acre grove includes lychee trees, mangoes, mulberries, ...

Florida tropical fruit growers and backyard producers are confronting increased risks from flooding, drought, heat, and salinity, warns a UF/IFAS publication.

If you are planning to create a backyard orchard, add fruit trees to a container garden, or expand your list of edible foods, ...