Gardening in Central Florida

Back from a week on the road. The garden is holding up pretty well. Lots of split tomatoes, but that's to be expected. Pleasing and surp...

I planted this FlordaPrince peach (from Just Fruits) on December 10, 2006. So, this is the third spring it's in the ground. It's a...

Looks like the rain's finally ended... We got something like fourteen inches. Ech. I ventured out this morning, thinking the rain had en...

Now that, my friends, is rain we can believe in... My guess is that since Sunday here in DeLand we've had in excess of ten inches of rai...

About the size of a softball. Sweet and firm. Nice fragrance.

I pulled almost all the onions left in the row, keeping a few red ones in there to finish bulbing up. The white Granex were by far the best-...

I don't eat processed foods for the exact same reason that I don't watch television: I just don't want to participate in that ec...

I'm working on my local eating guide for Central Florida . Anyone have input? http://floridiverous.blogspot.com/

In today's Times. When ‘Local’ Makes It Big By KIM SEVERSON WHEN Jessica Prentice, a food writer in the San Francisco Bay ...

Started a batch today from Christine's beautiful grapefruit and some frozen Meyer lemon juice that Barbara donated to the cause... Shoul...

Man, it's dry out there. I spend half an hour every morning and another thirty minutes every evening watering. I prefer to do it old-sch...

Some blooming things...

Some pictures of what's going on in the garden...

Primadonna blueberries. FlordaPrince Peach. Fast Break cantaloupe.

Not bad for a three-by-three foot area. The Fingerling potatoes are like $5 per pound at Whole Foods.

New potatoes... I spent the winter sticking sprouting potatoes into a warm, sunny spot in my garden, and heaping compost, straw, hay and gr...

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I still have some carrots, potatoes and broccoli in the garden, but it's transition time: Soon enough, I'll have tomatoes, peppers,...