Gardening in Central Florida

Things I'm thinking of ordering from Bay Laurel... To replace a couple of my southern highbush blueberries that have died: SUNSHINE BLUE...

It's really a big PAUSE out there right now... I've got tomato and pepper seedlings in the ground and in large containers; the tomat...

51103 Poinsett 76 CUCUMBER 2g seed 62803 Bronze Arrow LETTUCE, LOOSELEAF .5g seed, USDA Certified Organic 35106 Scarlet Nantes (Cor...

Over the past few days I've planted... Beefmaster tomatoes Green Gala cantaloupe Dolma Kabak (Turkish summer squash) Apollo Rocket (arug...

I don't want to exaggerate and say that it was cool out there, just now, while I was picking limas and checking out my brassica and toma...

Mississippi Silver crowder pea. Picked my first bunch today. Japanese cucumber seedling. Nesbitt grapes ripening... August colors.

Mr Keene himself... A six-year-old pear tree, full of Pineapple or Sand Pears ( Pyrus communis ). Hard, sweet, somewhat gritty. $5 per buc...

The first Nesbitt grapes of the season have ripened. Mmmmmm... Sweet. Not at all muscadine-y, though for me that's not necessarily a plu...

If I had to choose... Tomatoes: Sungold, Tiffany, Bella Rosa (determ.) Peppers: Sweet Spot X3R, Fat 'n' Sassy Pole Beans: Rattlesna...

Here's a response I wrote to a question on Garden Web about pepper growing... i'm only an ok pepper grower--this year's better t...

I became a mostly vegetarian--I choose not to eat meat, but I am willing to do so--one morning a year or two ago, when I woke up and decided...

A thoughtful video from Japan. Their situation isn't terribly different from our own, with the important caveats that 1) they deal with ...

Gator Belle Hybrid #9029 (30 seeds) $2.45 A very productive large bell pepper especially well suited to the Southeast. Uniform, bright gr...

While I'm recommending seeds, I'll add Bella Rosa determinant tomato (TGS) to the list... Produced over a long time. For indetermina...

And, while I'm on the subject of seeds, Burgundy Okra from ECHO. I let the pods get to nine inches and they were still tender. Added.......

A strong recommendation for California Wonder Fat and Sassy (oops!) bell peppers (TGS carries them). Even at the height of the doldrums in ...