Gardening in Central Florida

A very thoughtful and economical article on why we need to eat less meat, by Mark Bittman, the Times' food writer. I'm not a doctri...

Broccoli di Rapa, strawberries My herbs and lettuce garden.

A warm day today, though that's predicted to change early this week, with temperatures dipping back into the upper thirties. I spent a c...

Notes to self... Got my Kadota Fig and Sunred Nectarine from Willis last night. Very impressed -- both much larger than advertised and they ...

My roses fared all right. The same cannot be said of my bananas, brugs, and daturas. And there was a bit of damage to my tomatoes, but nothi...

Between the freeze and the Brazilians, my garden's a mess. But I love the new patio and paths that wind through the flower part of my ga...

With in-laws in town, we spent the a warm day at Epcot. I took the "Behind the Seeds" tour, a tour of the "Living with the La...

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

Record Report Statement as of 4:55 PM EST on January 03, 2008 ... Believe it or not... ... Record daily maximum snowfall set at Daytona Bea...

Thirty degrees tonight, twenty-four tomorrow night... At least my fruit trees will get the chill they need. Shed becomes refugee camps for ...

From Swallowtail Garden, which has a terrific selection of flowers at prices significantly lower than Thompson-Morgan. I ordered my Torenia ...

Old Chicago pavers to match our driveway. Considerably enlarging our existing patio. The workers have been very conscientious -- hardly a p...

A midsummer's feast, midwinter. 'Little Fingers' eggplants, some plum tomatoes, a 'Better Boy' (center), 'Sungold...

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

My next purchase... I think I'll try large tree pots, buried halfway. That way, I can keep them on the drier side. Willis has three of t...

Rumor is our recently-deceased Greek neighbor up the street raised olives in her citrus grove... Olive trees in Florida? You bet Text/photos...

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

An interesting overview (click for full-sized version) of the lineage and history of various low-chill apples from this excellent book .

I read most of Biology of Apples and Pears , and though much of it went way over my head, I learned a lot about apples and pears in the subt...