Gardening in Central Florida

Yeah, it's a Mexican Flame Vine. Not really right for our zone. I've had it in the ground for three or four years, and this is t...

Not a lot of posting lately. Lots going on in the garden, including several new peach trees, a new mulberry (Pakistan), and two new pear tr...

A beautiful morning here in Central Florida! First day of the dry season. (I'm sure the wet season isn't completely over, but every...

I need to get back to regular blogging! Dug out my front summer bed and transplanted my (sorry little) seedlin...

I've been traveling for the last three weeks, so nothing much going on in the garden. More eggplants than I care to eat. Lots of sweet ...

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...