Aug 18, 2022 | Composting, Container Gardening, DIY, Fall Season, Gardening, Native Plants, Planting Prep, Pollinators, Vegetables, Who We are, Wildflowers, Wildlife
The blog this week will be quite short, I’m afraid. I contracted COVID-19 (right around my birthday) and I haven’t been working in a couple of weeks. I’m not recovering as quickly as I want to be. But it doesn’t stop me from daydreaming about...
Jul 5, 2022 | Container Gardening, DIY, Education, Gardening, Organic, Pest Control, Vegetables, Wildlife
Snails and slugs are very common in Florida due to our warm wet weather. We even have invasive snails, namely the Giant African Land Snail, which are a hazard to Florida’s very important agriculture-based industries. In this blog we’ll look at snails and...
Jun 22, 2022 | Education, Gardening, Landscaping, Organic, Pest Control, Vegetables, Wildlife
As we continue our series on common garden problems, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention caterpillars. These hungry little beasties suddenly appear, and eat their way through your plants like the Tasmanian Devil destroys things in old Looney Tunes shows. ...
May 12, 2022 | Bees, DIY, Education, Gardening, Landscaping, Pollinators, Who We are, Wildlife
Bees & Butterflies have been fascinating us for centuries, and for good reason. Industrious bees and butterflies with stained-glass looking wings are a delight in the garden! As our garden center expands here at Shell’s, I’ll be talking a bit more...
Apr 15, 2022 | Education, Gardening, Spring Season, Wildlife
Oh deer! This is my first of a series I’ll be doing of Ask Me Anything. I happened to get a question from a nice gentleman who is a regular customer of our garden center and he wanted to know something – and I didn’t have an answer for him. Never...
