Gardening in Central Florida

My tomatoes are still a couple of weeks away from ripening. Plums are almost there --I'll probably pick one tree this week and let them...

We picked out by the Yalaha bakery today. Peaches from Valley View and berries from Blue Bayou. This is the best pie EVER. A mix of cooke...

 First squash of the season. SlickPik from Johnnys.  My trellis system for cucumbers and beans and tomatoes...  Pum ae squash. V...

 The large carrots are Navarino, planted at the beginning of November... I pulled about 1/3 of a row. Some large and well-formed... Othe...

They're blooming, so, I'm making these classic British refreshers... Cordial and liqueur .

A quick update in pictures...   As usual, Slick Pik squash is the first of the season. Pum ae is coming along, too. For whatever re...

I don't do a lot of reposting, but this idea of using a pallet as a sort of tiered mulitpot is really smart. I like in particular ...

Typical spring broccoli. I've been harvesting heads from the same plants for months now, and each time they produce a head, it's a ...

One of the geraniums I started from seed in the fall...

... and I know it because I saw my first Black Racer and... first Florida grasshoppers...  

  Someone in the comments asked for a picture of my DIY sprinkler system. Five minutes, a few dollars, and no tools (except a hacksaw or...

What's going on in your garden? 

I transplanted another dozen tomatoes into the garden, transplanted some nice little cukes ( pum ae , southern delight) and squash (pum ae ...

Since some people actually read this blog who want to garden better. I'm no expert, but I've learned a lot of lessons about what it...

Most of my tomatoes are in the ground. Beans in the ground. My squash and cuke seedlings are up, only cotelydons for the mome...

Gardening in the rain today... A week or two early, I got some smallish tomato seedlings into the beds. Mostly Juliette (hands-down the bes...