Gardening in Central Florida

Delta Charlie knows what he's talking about, and he recommended two cherry tomatoes for fall planting: Hi all, the first of the fall to...

My 'Mississippi Silver' cowpeas have kicked into full production. They love all the heat and humidity you give them, but they're...

Today, for fall/winter garden,I planted some Solanaceae : Nepal tomato Black Plum tomato Jetsetter tomato (these three tomatoes were recomme...

July has been the end of tomato season for me in the past. The bugs and diseases get bad, but the main problem is that tomatoes stop setting...

Sun Gold (the larger of the two) and Matt's Wild Tomatoes (the latter is also known as Everglades Tomato). Matt's in particular prod...

Manduca quinquemaculata. I noticed the damage yesterday on my Goose Creek tomato, and meant to find the bugger, but got distracted. Today i...

Even though we're forecast to have a very cool week (highs in the 60s... in March! That's been rare the past few years...), I decide...

I'm going to grow a few more tomatoes this spring than last... #5859 - SunSugar FT Hybrid - 30 seeds. #5532 ...

(photo from barbcoleus) Collectively over at GardenWeb Florida Forum, we identified the little worm that's been damaging my tomatoes an...

The first tomato of the cool/dry season. A 'Purple Cherokee' that I got as a seedling from a local sustainable grower (after Stoopid...

The boy & I started planting his half of the kids' garden. Our timing was off, but the boy was really excited about starting his gar...

More typical late-August weather has returned to our area -- hot and humid with rain promised this afternoon. (Cross my fingers...) I spent ...

I started, in paper cups with plastic cup liners, the following tomatoes for my fall crop: Nepal (OP) 80 days A high quality, intensely flav...

I couldn't deal with the stinkbug invasion, and decided to call it quits with my two remaining full-sized tomatoes. I'd planted thes...

OK, I've been won over. I really liked this salsa cruda, my translation of this recipe . It was an excellent way to use up some green to...

(tomatoes on the trellis -- matt's wild on the left, tiffany in the middle, better boy in the background (tiffany, with thirty-eight wal...

I wanted to quickly note the State of Tomatoes in my garden. On January 6, I planted three full-sized tomatoes: -Tiffany (a VNFT hybrid f...

The layout of my cold-season strawberry bed: A rough circle that gets about 8 hours a day of hot sun. I dug the strawberries into the bed, ...

I don't know what varietal these cukes are -- I bought them at Lowes. That's one plant that has been trellised onto four strings to ...

A bouquet I picked for my secretary for 'National Secretary's Day', along with some cucumbers from the garden. The flowers are ...