Gardening in Central Florida

It's official ... Grow Your Own “Edible landscape” seems to be going head to head with “staycation” as the most popular catch phrase of ...

My 'Mississippi Silver' cowpeas have kicked into full production. They love all the heat and humidity you give them, but they're...

News - newsjournalonline.com : "A dedicated wildflower lover, Jennifer Reinoso is especially dedicated to a few small colonies of nativ...

A Locally Grown Diet With Fuss but No Muss - NYTimes.com : "For a fee, Mr. Paque, who lives in San Francisco, will build an organic gar...

Trying to Build a Greener Britain, Home by Home : In an era when movie stars build $5 million eco-mansions, families here have made their ol...

Today, for fall/winter garden,I planted some Solanaceae : Nepal tomato Black Plum tomato Jetsetter tomato (these three tomatoes were recomme...

Path to Freedom : "Since the early 80's the Dervaes family has slowly transformed their ordinary city lot into a self sufficient ur...

I fertilized them today, lightly, with HOLLY-TONE PLANT FOOD from Espoma. Low in nitrogen, especially for the ones I just planted. I need to...

For fall planting... · Willow-Leaf White BEAN, LIMA (POLE) 14g seed, USDA Certified Organic · Jericho PVP LETTUCE .5g...

Turf War: Books: The New Yorker If you're looking for more reasons to hate your lawn, read this ... The greener, purer lawns that the ch...

A surprise yesterday morning.

The weather's been dreadful the past few days--we've had TEN INCHES of rain in three days, and not a ray of sun. The weeds are runni...

too busy right now to blog much, but here's a note i sent to a friend who asked me what's going on in the garden... hey, mary! we ju...

Wait! I thought only dirty fucking hippies cared about crap like this... Wal-Mart branches out into locally grown produce Wal-Mart stores in...

Hmmmm.... In recent years, as the local food movement has grown and farmers’ markets have proliferated, a new breed of back-to-the-landers h...

In the long run, the explosion in commodity prices will be a good thing. Capitalism, for all its inherent problems, is really good at solvin...

Envisioning a world of $200-a-barrel oil - Los Angeles Times . Not so long ago, it was just dirty frickin' hippies and know-nothing Kent...

July has been the end of tomato season for me in the past. The bugs and diseases get bad, but the main problem is that tomatoes stop setting...