Gardening in Central Florida

A lovely late-summer day. "Cool" temperatures (86 degrees or so) and very low dew point of upper 50s combined to make a gorgeous t...

The winds have started blowing out of the north-east. That brought a bunch of rain off the Atlantic yesterday, dousing us with a good one-an...

Kind of a bummer day. I was stuck at home with my sick daughter. We both had head colds, mine came with an ear-ache. (God, when was the last...

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...

A persistent and slow-moving low pressure area off the Southeast Florida coast has soaked my part of Volusia county. Forecasts predicated ab...

In spring, I'm ordering a number of varieties of sweet potatoes and onions from Steele Plant Company .

Mississippi Crowder Peas (Cowpeas, Southern Peas, Vigna uniguiculata ). Aren't they lovely? The top are the seeds I'm saving for n...

I bought this 'Confederate Rose' ( Hibiscus mutabilis) about a year ago from Bioscape. The bloom starts off almost white, goes pink...

The boy and I put this little garden patch together this sultry day. He looked at me and said, "Dad, this is how hard kids should be ...

Glads, from easytogrowbulbs.com. I order from this outfit pretty often. The quality of the bulbs is really outstanding. The bloom on my Mi...

I got this very useful & detailed seed planting calendar and recommended varietals from the really excellent Simon Seed Farm and Garden ...

Johnson Nursery is the best source on the net I've found for ordering bare-root strawberries for winter planting here in Central FLA. (...

We had a taste of some nice, cooler (only 88 degrees!), drier weather last week. But now it's tropical out there again! Even in the dol...

A real winner in my garden. I got it as a seedling this season. It's grown to about three by three feet. Aside from needing to be stake...

I planted sweet potato slips back at the beginning of May . I got the slips from my good gardening buddy Bill. Before I planted them, I spr...

Hunting for the elusiva batata... It's as big as 'is 'ead! Fortunately I like sweet potatoes...

Mushroom compost... one cubic yard, to be exact. Not exactly pleasant smelling... some anaerobic breakdown going on. I picked it up from We...

My poor, benighted corn ('Silver Queen'). The bugs this time of year are really bad, but I hope that the corn will outgrow/outlast t...