Gardening in Central Florida

I'm travelling heavily in the coming weeks, so I'm not too optimistic that these seeds will survive the weeks before transplant, bu...

A few shots of the garden... Besides the eggplants and peppers, I still have a few healthy tomato plants producing cherry tomatoes... The N...

Nesbitt. Very nice muscadine--thinner skin, pips aren't bad (hardly noticeable). Strong Concord/Fox flavor (a good thing for eating gra...

For the first time, my Alma fig is setting and retaining summer fruit. You'll often see Almas and other southern fig trees described as...

I try to respond to questions in the comments... Sally from New Orleans asked a question in the comments to an earlier post. I'm in ...

Getting ready for my winter/spring garden... I'll plant these mid-July for transplant into the garden in mid-August... Of course, half ...

Darn. I seem to have accidentally deleted a post about tomatoes. No time to rewrite the whole thing, but it was a note to myself that Virgi...

Harvested the rest of the onions that I started from seed back in August. About forty in all from 10 feet of row, double-cropped. Th...

Let's see... right now, the only things going on in my garden: More tomatoes than I can eat or give away. Lots of red onions (very happ...

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 .