Gardening in Central Florida

Less Corn Could Mean Higher Food Prices - New York Times : Corn prices already are high, and a drop in supply should keep them rising. Combi...

Cattle panel and t-posts . Brilliant.

Cuba's agricultural revolution an example to the world : Laura Enriquez, a sociologist at the University of California-Berkeley, who has...

My strawberries have finally kicked into high production.

Gosh, aren't they great? In a pot, very perennial. They die back completely in the wet season, but I stick them in full shade with some...

I'm going to give them a try this summer... Just have to figure out how.

Blue-Eyed Grass My Ivy Geranium, finally coming into bloom. I planted this seed month ago... Easy enough to start, but a long time in blo...

Backyards, Beware: An Orchard Wants Your Spot - New York Times : In the last few years, an increasing number of Americans have turned their ...

The breba crop on my Alma fig. I pruned this down to four main stems, about thirty inches each. Each stem is neatly lined, appositely, from...

These trees are across from my office, so I've watched them carefully over the past seven or eight years. This year, by far, is the bes...

Pot Marigolds (Calendula). These are from saved seed that I've had going on for several seasons. The yellow is first yellow calendula ...

Seeds from my Summer Glory Lettuce mix. Tough to separate the chaff from the seed, but I got several tablespoonfuls of seed from the three o...

My daughter asked me what fruits I had growing in my garden... Two peaches (Flordabell, FlordaPrince) Nectarine (Sunred) Six citrus (Honeybe...

Flordaprince peach tree, leafing out. I pruned this tree back heavily in December. A breba fig from what I'm pretty sure is an 'Alma...

It's pouring out there right now -- my guess is we've had at least an inch of rain, with much more expected. It's just too wet t...

The "Florida weave" method of trellising tomatoes, as practiced by ECHO gardens. These look like determinant tomatoes, and the sy...

ECHO is developing some smallish, quick-to-bear macademia trees. The trees are beautiful, about twenty feet tall. You can see the flowers a...

Isn't it beautiful?

St. Augustine, Florida, is a pretty place. Walking around there reminds me of all the history that's been forgotten: Florida has really ...