Gardening in Central Florida

Some random notes... It's fall. We have a beautiful week on tap. I will never again plant cukes in the fall. The stinkbugs did them in, ...

Valley View Vineyards . A really lovely area--"The Alps of Florida"! Located in the hills and valleys that make up the spine of F...

I bought from Just Fruits and Exotics ... EARLIGRANDE (peach) New for 2009! Yellow fleshed, small to medium clingstone peach that ripens be...

My order from Swallowtail... Winter is the only time I sow annuals and perennials (which I usually grow as annuals). My friend Bill has p...

Your Japanese cuke... has that been going all summer? nope, i got it from a friend as a seedling about a month ago. but... it's very ...

I needed the space, so I harvested my batatas a little earlier than maybe I should have. There were some real lunkers in the mix, but plen...

Let's see... The color of September is... PURPLE. Flowering artemesia, Duranta erecta, Achimenes, Alternanthera, yarrow, and some cool ...

Special Japanese cuke... seems to be invisible to pickleworm radar... Pretty exciting, eh? I'll post the results and seeds if my luck h...

My super-rare, super-cool Ele Ele Banana has decided to finally set fruit... a bummer, since there's probably not enough energy left in ...

Goings on in the garden... Click for a larger slideshow.

It's the best time of the year for butterflies & hummers. I counted 12 species in my garden this weekend. The most popular plants fo...

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...