Gardening in Central Florida

 Heavy rains, warm night temps... Nothing much going on the Central Florida garden... Even my eggplants are blooming without setting fruit, ...

Go back ten years, and I rememebr how we’d send the kids out to pull air potato vines out of the trees in our small backyard.... I think I ...

It's buggy, hot, and rainy... hard to grow leaf plants like chard, spinach, lettuce. Which brings us to... what can you eat from all tha...

Remember when Florida had a dry season, fires, arid days of June? No longer...  During a brief break in the rain, I added a papaya to my ...

The woodpeckers are out there now, squabbling over the still-unripe figs left on the tree... I thought they were insectivores? 

This spring, I've added a banana plant, passionfruit vine, Peruvian Apple Cactus ( Cereus repandus ), an avocado of unknown b...

I've been really impressed by the vigor of CHOCOLATE SPRINKLES FNT HYBRID which I bought from (of course) Tomato Growers Supply Company...

I'm still gardening, and this coronavirus pandemic has meant I'm spending more time in the garden than usual. Plums, nectarines, fi...

It's that time already in Central Florida! The aim is to have seedlings large enough to transplant by March 1... I'm usually late,...