Gardening in Central Florida

The chard and turnips that I sowed back in October are ready for harvest, so about sixty days from seed to harvest. That's considerably...

From Pinetree . Cheap seeds, good selection. These have all worked well for me. Pinetree Garden Seeds PO Box 300 New Gloucester, ME 04260 P...

Not feeling much like Christmas out there... but compared to what other parts of the country are suffering now, I'll take the warmth and...

Some Apollo Arugula, window boxes with salad greens, blackberries, Dinosaur kale, Jetsettter tomatoes, and cassava canes for next year.

Yellow Oncidium orchid...

It's been an exceptionally cold winter: No frosts yet, but still, very cold. It seems every week we get into the mid- or upper-thirties...

Harvest from my first try with cassava. I got some cuttings from a gardening friend (thanks, Felix!) back in, what, May? Made numerous cutti...

Delta Charlie knows what he's talking about, and he recommended two cherry tomatoes for fall planting: Hi all, the first of the fall to...

From a post over on the Florida Forum of GardenWeb... my thoughts on salad greens in FLA: i direct-sowed a bunch of lettuce in september but...

I grew up in a household that canned: Every fall, my mom dragged out the pressure cooker and canning kettle, and went to work on the tomatoe...

Let's see... What to say about my gardens. First, my flower gardens are in disarray. My Prosperity rose suddenly up and died. This rose ...

I did some horticultural penance for all the fishing I've been doing lately. Spent a HOT October morning and afternoon (it had to have...

Over the past couple of weeks, I've direct seeded chard ("French" Swiss Chard (!!) and my old standby, "Sea Foam"), ...

Finally, I've identified the stinkbugs on my tomatoes... The leaffooted bug Leptoglossus phyllopus (L.). On this useful IFAS site.

Tragic. And not just for the destruction of the wholeness of community and health. As the world gets flatter and smaller, it also gets more ...

I planted some sweet potato slips and raw peanuts (from Publix ) along the edges of my main bed, in some sunny spots where the last bit of ...

So, I wouldn't go quite so far as to say that the dry season is upon us... but, for the first time in months, this evening was quite ple...

A pretty pleasant day, all things considered. It was around ninety, but the relative humidity was lower and there was a nice breeze out of t...

Spent the afternoon yesterday ripping out all my tired, old summer crops, excepting some Cuban oregano, fennel, and scallions. I hoed the b...