ALT Spooky-season containers with four photos: dark purple foliage plant Persian shield in urn-like pot with Spanish moss spilling over, a green mossy concrete birdbath with spiky aloe plants plus a black plastic jack o' lantern, colorful container of orange and yellow foliage and flowers in front of three metal sunflower signs, and a large pot with green/yellow croton, orange/yellow blanket flowers, wine-colored coleus and marigolds.

ALT I Didn't Know That! Leave the Leaves. For many pollinators, leaf litter acts like a cozy blanket. It insulates against cold and moisture, giving them a safe place to survive winter. The leaves and sticks in your yard could be sheltering next spring's butterflies, bees, moths and even fireflies! Help pollinators this fall by leaving the leaves on the ground, by raking or blowing, but don't shred, wait for spring to pick up. Think small! Leaving even a small corner can help! go.nps.gov/idkt

ALT A variety of microgreens growing in a greenhouse, some look like clover, while others are deep magenta in color. Others look like tiny lily pads. UF/IFAS photo.

ALT Miracle berry is a tropical shrub with leathery green leaves longer than wide and usually about two inches in length. The fruit is small, red and oval slightly pointed at the end. Photo courtesy of Wendy Wilber, please do not use without credit to both her and the University of Florida.

ALT A black mangrove tree grows in a salt marsh in St. Augustine, Florida. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC).

ALT A yellow toy dump truck filled with tiny succulent plants in a shady green garden.

ALT Don't place anything from the sidewalk up to your property. Don't include normal household trash. Separate debris into six categories: vegetative materials like leaves and tree branches, construction debris including carpet furniture and drywall, appliances like freezers and stoves, electronics like television and other corded devices, and lastly hazardous waste like cleaning supplies, batteries, pesticides and lawn chemicals. Don't stack or lean debris on trees, poles, fire hydrants. If you don't have a sidewalk or ditch place debris at the edge of your property before the curb.

ALT Young fiddle-leaf fig trees in a greenhouse, their foliage already broad and deep green.

ALT The cover of the cookbook features dishes made with squash including pie, chili, cookies and salad.

ALT Green, shrubby mangroves in gulf waters, their long arching prop roots visible above and into the water.

ALT You can make your own organic soil amendments like compost. You can buy a small composting bin or go big like this handmade,, large wooden composter with three compartments.

ALT Black tubes provide drip irrigation to a newly planted raised bed. This is just one method for integrated water management.

ALT A man stands in a small space in front of a wall of vertically growing lacinato kale under purple LED lights, part of the Smart Farm at NFRC in Suwannee Valley.

ALT Seminole pumpkin is more closely related to butternut squash than traditional pumpkins, but it is shaped like a pumpkin and often has a dull, tan to orange rind.

ALT Butternut squash typically have a smooth, hard tan rind with a narrow neck near the stem and a bulbous end, but this one is almost pear-shaped and ridged. It will still have firm orange flesh.

ALT Acorn squash are typically (but not always) dark green and ridged. Smaller than traditional pumpkins, they taper at the end like an acorn; this is their most distinguishing feature. They comes a variegated forms and sometimes have orange markings on them.

ALT Calabazas are also called tropical pumpkin and are closely related to butternut squash and Seminole pumpkins. They resemble the latter but tend to be rounder and with ridges that are less deeply grooved.

ALT Associate professor Sriyanka Lahiri in a strawberry field at the UF/IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center.

ALT A naturalized plot full of bright pink dianthus flowers, very simple with five petals.

ALT Photo of a front yard that's mostly rocks and pavement, with a few plants in the gravel. There's a big red "X" on the photo.

ALT An orange mothlike butterfly on a cluster of tiny white flowers, frostweed, botanical name Verbesina virginica. Photo by Mary Keim, some rights reserved (cc by-nc-sa 2.0).

ALT Tall spikes of tiny purple flowers, slender blazing star, botanical name Liatris gracilis. Photo by Mary Keim, some rights reserved (cc by-nc-sa 2.0).

ALT Tall stems topped with umbrella-shaped clusters of tiny purple flowers, vanillaleaf, botanical name Carphephorus odoratissimus. Photo by Mary Keim, some rights reserved (cc by-nc-sa 2.0).

ALT Very close look at tiny lavender flowers of pinkscale blazing star, botanical name Liatris elegans. Flowerheads are dense spikes, with small white disk flowers surrounded by pinkish-lavender bracts. Photo by Karan A. Rawlins, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org.

ALT Text reads: "Lovebugs are a UF experiment gone wrong" and then in large red text "FALSE" over a photo of a black car covered in smashed insects.

ALT Text reads Gardening myth: dish soap is harmless to use as an aphid spray, and in big, red all-caps: FALSE. Plus a photo of a pink sponge with soap bubbles.