Gardening in Central Florida

At the Deland Farmers Market I got three very nice, healthy blueberries in gallon pots: Mirimba , Primadonna (sic) and another Gulf Coast ....

Not a lot of time to blog (too busy writing, fishing, and gardening!) but some snapshots from the garden this weekend... Nesbitt grapes. Thi...

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From the blog posts this month, I made this very cool wordle Word Cloud. Click on it!

I have a bunch (hah!) of bananas in bloom... The "male" flower (can a parthenogenic plant have a male and female flower?) at the t...

Having lived in Russia during the early 1990s, when bananas were a novel rarity that merited standing in line for hours, I enjoyed this arti...

I spent a long, hot Saturday helping my friend Mark transform his front yard into an edible landscape. We have something like a labor cooper...

Another inch. Rainy season has arrived.

Fifteen minutes.

I hope these lubber-lovers appreciated their last seconds on my plumeria... I despise them--they hiss and spit as the pliers close around th...

Sun Gold (the larger of the two) and Matt's Wild Tomatoes (the latter is also known as Everglades Tomato). Matt's in particular prod...

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In the long run, this change is for the better. "At $4 per gallon gas, $125 per barrel oil and $10 per million Btu natural gas, a lot o...

Update: They flew away today, June 17. We had five that made it. One sneaked out of its container, found a spot to hide somewhere among our ...

Manduca quinquemaculata. I noticed the damage yesterday on my Goose Creek tomato, and meant to find the bugger, but got distracted. Today i...

Speaking of squirming things... I noticed that the Pickleworms have finally made it back. They destroyed the handful of cukes left on my vin...

I had picked up my last dill plant, planning to toss it into my compost barrel. Noticed just in time that it had Black Swallowtail caterpil...

Mary's pastures. Only three miles from me, but might as well be another world.

Valencias are the last juice crop of the season. I helped a friend glean her small grove, and came away with about eighty pounds of Valencia...

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