Gardening in Central Florida

I had a Thursday an Friday off, and spent them fishing in Canaveral National Seashore and at Flagler Pier . I had only fair success, but eno...

My wife caught this blue-tailed beauty on film... The kids, predictably, went nuts over this guy.

I came home on Friday night to find (somewhat mysteriously) a box of strawberry plants on my doorstep -- three-hundred of them to be exact. ...

I loved the color of this rose -- it's defined as an apricot/orange blend, but really, it's copper, plain and simple. It fades pret...

Three inches of rain on Monday night/Tuesday morning alone. I emptied the rain gauge at 7 this morning, and by the time I went to work aroun...

Burpee was very prompt in delivering their seeds. I needed some cool-season veg seeds: Carrot Sweet Treat Hybrid ( recommended on GW Flori...

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...