Gardening in Central Florida

How Meat Contributes to Global Warming: Scientific American : The FAO report found that current production levels of meat contribute between...

I wonder if the bees would consider some of those half-built, abandoned McMansions outside of DeLand as sites for their hives? Guest Column:...

The destruction wrought by recent frost...

Ah... The carnage. My yard is brown. So much is dead. So, today I started spring seeds... ABC--Cucuzzi Squash DEF--Tatume Squash GHI--Jetset...

Fiesta. That's the kind I planted. Fiesta broccoli.

My gardening guru and pal Christine gave me a couple new brassicas to try, Beira Tronchuda Cabbage and Redbor Kale . I transplanted some of...

From Collages A slide show of what's going on in my garden...

I started yesterday, in my Parks seed starter... 1 Calendula 2 (ABC) Ivy geranium (wonderful!) 2 (DEF) Ringo Scarlet Geranium (both geranium...

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 ...