Gardening in Central Florida

Thirty cubic yards. That's how much mulch my tree guy dropped onto my driveway. Now, I need to move said cubits into the garden. I'm...

My recently transplanted malanga.

Another map of chill hours. I love how every one is different... Map shows hours below 45 degrees received to February 10th in 75% of winter...

A common question--what can grow in our hot and humid summers? One way I've learned to deal with the problem of the months-long hot and ...

From Southern Exposure . Poinsett 76 CUCUMBER {als, an, dm, pm, spm} 67 days. [Developed cooperatively by Clemson and Cornell.] An improved ...

Oh, I forgot to add: I started another vin de maison : a batch of vin de pêche (from the excellent book aperitif by Georgeanne Brennan), us...

Well, it's surely summer here. I know that because I yanked out my last remaining collards last week (whiteflies!) and my sweet potatoes...

It's a start... Wildflowers: Safety, savings bloom on Florida's roadways -- OrlandoSentinel.com : "Contract manager Chris Gross...

I made this a few weeks ago , and it's slowly clarifying in the fridge now. Wow, is it ever tasty. Just the right balance of bitter and ...

I love all pickles... Too many peaches, and they have such a short shelf-life. I never can my pickles--refrigerator pickles, if you have the...

Warnings for Inland Volusia County, Florida : Weather Underground : "... Several rainfall records set at Daytona Beach during may... A ...

I have a nice stand of broccoli rabe (aka rapini), left over from spring plantings. I tend to forget, every year, how tasty the stuff is. I ...

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-...