Gardening in Central Florida

Winterbore Kale If I had to choose one winter crop to plant, it would be kale. Prolific, tough, cheap seeds, grows fast, repeat harve...

Well, it's that time of year. A friend dropped off four gallons of loquats, just a small part of the harvest from one tree... Loquats a...

I found this snake entangled in a castnet that i keep in a lidded bucket... it had gotten in the bucket somehow, tangled with the net, cra...

Gardeners! Lowe's has onion sets in right now... For their ease, and given how expensive sweet onions are, onions are among the best th...

Never tried this in Florida, but seems appropriate: A way to avoid our poor soils & nematodes. (HOO-gul-culture) meaning hill cultu...

Mary's Heirloom Seeds http://marysheirloomseeds.com They offer all organic, open-pollinated, non-gmo and non-hybrid seeds. All the ...

Yeah, I  know... I need to get back to the garden blogging. I pulled a banana clump out (never easy), and cleaned out from beneath it, and ...

I harvested the sweet potatoes, peanuts, and Southern peas from my garden this weekend, leaving this bed more or less clear. A rare enough ...

Green is the color of the Florida late-summer garden. Solid green. Peanuts, southern peas, sweet potatoes, scallions, lima beans, some ...

Onions, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, lettuce, rocket, and various asian greens are planted in their containers. I also direct-sowed some For...

Let's see... High summer is upon us. Here's what I've got going on in the garden...  eggplants, four or five kinds of hot peppe...

Poor bees. With the rain over the last few days, they were getting feisty. I made hay when the sun was shining and I checked the hive yeste...

I get this question all the time. I revisited this guide that I wrote a few years ago. It's pretty good...

Despite the near absence of sunshine the past week... my full-sized tomatoes have ripened (especially the determinate Celebrity), my pepper...

We do it old-school, low-tech... The honey is, to say the least, minimally-processed. Never warmed to more than, say, 90* (the ambient te...

My figs are really late this year, but there's an abundance of them hanging in the tree, probably more than a hundred. They ripen sudde...

Some quick shots from the excellent you-pick called Green Acres in Yalaha, just minutes from the excellent bakery...  These trees ar...

I have a long row of these. I've grown all sorts of beets, but these are the best, especially as their greens are perfect for cookin...