Preparing Your Landscape for a Season Away

Many people who live in Florida are seasonal residents, often leaving for the summer. If you're closing up your Florida home for the summer—or just going on a lengthy vacation—take some time to prepare your landscape for your absence.

UF/IFAS Sites

• Trees and Hurricanes: Reducing damage from storms with preventive action

UF/IFAS Publications

• Homeowner Best Management Practices for the Home Lawn
• How to Close Up Your Home
• How to Minimize Wind Damage in the South Florida Garden

Also on Gardening in a Minute

• Caring for House Plants While Away

Other Sites

• Closing Your Florida Home--Southwest Florida Water Management District
• Going North? Summer-proof your Florida home to avoid worry, disaster--Marco Island (FL) Eagle
• Pre-Vacation Planning Pays--Texas Cooperative Extension
• Vacation-Proofing the Garden--University of Vermont Extension
• Vacations and the Yard and Gardening--University of Illinois Extension
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