Gardening in Central Florida

Malpighia glabra . A really lovely, low, bush-like tree. It's covered in delicate pinkish white blossoms right now. I like the fruit a...

From a post I did over at the Florida Forum on GardenWeb: Lately I've been grazing: left to right, top to bottom. okra : My gardening bu...

I had a couple of bare patches in the flower beds, so yesterday morning before work I planted... Four pots purple Pseuderanthemum laxiflorum...

My son and I worked on his first 4-H project last weekend -- a pair of citrus trees (Murcot). The rules of the game state that we have to g...

Holy cow, this sounds like a tasty way to forage the leaves of sweet potatoes. Chao Fan Su Ye. One of the signature dishes of Taiwan! I do...

The banana is a twenty-foot "dwarf" Cavendish (mislabeled at the DeLand Plant Faire). This bloom is only the second off this Vanda...

It rained two inches in about twenty minutes yesterday. I have a happy garden and one-hundred gallons of rain water in barrels.

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Coriander, Slow Bolt Winner Korean Radish, Hybrid Sweet Chinese Radish, Red Skin Daikon Radish, Miyashige Green Neck Korean Squash, Hybrid G...

I planted this fennel last November or so, in what was then my butterfly garden. It made it through the frosts and inundations and droughts...

Yep, basically six weeks without a drop of rain. It's been getting into the low 90s every day. Incredibly dry. Weather Discussion : Weat...

The Greywater Guerrillas : "Recycling Water the Greywater Guerrillas' Way Greywater is water that flows down sink, shower, and wash...

I spent the morning finishing up the installation of my micro-sprinkler system. I like the simplicity of the system, and it's very effec...

I liked this list of summer temperate/tropical veg, from a hobby gardener in South Florida. The site as a whole is pretty interesting, thou...

Nesbit , Vitis rotundifolia . From a large vine I transplanted this summer.

I got a pot of alstroemeria back in 2006, and they've been blooming happily every year in a big fiberglass urn, from November through A...

Our compost situation was, well, squirming. Seething might be a better word. Wriggling works. I have a very high threshold for such things...

Finally poked up to the surface this morning. A week or so from planting to germination. Nice warm window.

From Isaac's observation journal... Column 2, 3 (Summer Glory) -- lots of sprouts, some large, some small. Column 4 (Epazote)-- no germ...