Gardening in Central Florida

Citrus: Honeybell Tangelo, Hamlin Orange, Owari Satsuma (these all on Flying Dragon), Sambokan Lemon, a Kumquat in a pot, and a kaffir lime ...

Apple blooms, potatoes, beans, blueberries... etc. This didn't come out well, but I'm too beat to do it again. Long day in the garde...

I made this earlier this winter with my mom's "organic" oranges. I used a cheap red boxed wine, not a white, but otherwise, s...

Cukes and melons are up. First blackberry bloom of he season... very late. All winter I stick sprouted potatoes into black nursery pots an...

Despite the rain and relatively cool temperatures, the beans I planted last weekend were up by Friday. I started some Gaucho melon seeds a...

I get this kind of question pretty often... Here's my quick answer... there are probably other things he could start now... feel free to...

Let's see... Planted beans--first week of March is a good time to plant beans, but this year, probably too early. We have a warm week ah...

The cold winter's made it ideal for growing broccoli and greens, but not much else... FlordaPrince Peach blooms... I think I overpruned...

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I need to get back to blogging!

It's been a long, very cold couple of weeks... this is what happens to my Russellia when it freezes--the water in the stems freeze and ...

A very busy time of the year for me, so light blogging until after Christmas. The usual cool/dry season things going on in the garden: brocc...

I may never go back to open-pollinated radishes. Quick, perfectly round, appropriately crimson, and not a single split radish in today's...

I'm enjoying my tomato salad (tomatoes, salt, Sherry vinegar, olive oil, chopped Trinidad Yellow Seasoning pepper sprinkled atop), think...

Pretty smart advice here for the apartment-bound and even for those (like me!) with some space but not a lot... I agree completely with his ...

My new potting mix is a 5::2::1 pine fine::perlite::peat mix. It’s really doing the trick for me… I’m in the midst of repotting all my pla...

Funny thing is that these dogwoods NEVER bloom in the spring. I'd always assumed it was the lack of chill hours, but that hypothesis see...