Renovating Your Vegetable and Flower Gardens

Florida winters are mercifully short, and that means warm weather is right around the corner. Early spring is the time to take a look at your garden and see if it's ready for the growing season. Overgrown plants may need to be thinned out, tired soil may be in need of amendments, and you might even want to add something new.

UF/IFAS Sites

• Bed Preparation and Maintenance of Annuals

UF/IFAS Publications

• Bedding Plants: Selection, Establishment and Maintenance
• Florida Vegetable Gardening Guide
• January Gardening Tips (PDF)
• Keys to Spring Vegetable Gardening Success (PDF)
• Soil pH and the Home Landscape or Garden
• Soil Preparation and Liming
• Spring into the Garden (PDF)

Also on Gardening in a Minute

• Fall Vegetable Gardening
• Fertilizing Your Vegetable Garden
• Maintaining the Vegetable Garden
• Spring Vegetable Gardening
• Vegetable Gardening: Introduction
• Vegetable Gardening with Raised Beds
• Vegetable Gardens from Seed

Other Sites

• An Eye for Garden Renovations--Canadian Master Gardener site
• Essential Tasks to Prepare for Spring Gardening--Demesne.info
• Get Your Garden Ready for Spring with Compost--Lower Colorado River Authority
• Perennial Bed Renovation--Iowa State University
• Renovating Perennial Beds--HGTV
• Renovating Strawberries in the Home Garden--University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service (PDF)
• Spring in the Perennial Garden--University of Vermont Extension