Gardening in Central Florida

Friends kept the garden pretty well picked and tame. I spent an hour this morning weeding and picking... just a few cukes (three or four) an...

I'm on the road at the best time of the year for my garden...

Great fig harvest. They're not as sweet and juicy as I'd like them, but I'm picking them too early... First time I've been...

Riffing off of a recipe from Cooks Illustrated ... The key is to cook small batches of fruit preserves. Small batches allow you to use high...

Still harvesting some winter crops like broccoli, chard, kale, potatoes. But they're burning out during our 90° afternoons....

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...