Growing Food in Florida

Moving away from the conventional. Towards natural, easy, less-work. Evolving. When I just started gardening, about ten years ago, I joine...

In one of my previous posts I talked about my coffee forest consisting of four coffee trees. At the time of this post I planted about twent...

A while ago Publix used to sell little Angel Trees. I always liked to ruffle through these cute puppies that were just begging to take them ...

In my never ending quest to grow more greens and to extend greens growing season I am experimenting with companion planting, and especially ...

I am trying something new. Instead of planting in soil, I am plating in wood chips. I did not plan it like that, it just sort of happened. I...

Finally, my garden building project is coming to a completion. The beds are all built and I filled some of them with the grass clippings jus...

The raised bed garden building continues. Today I started laying landscape fabric over the grass. Prior to that step I gave the lawn a good ...

I was in need of more garden space, so instead of my usual endeavor of double-digging the beds , I decided to build a raised bed garden for...

Normally, when people think of mulch types they recall the stuff that is sold in bags in box stores. After all that's what's called ...

Mulch, mulch, mulch -- you cannot get too much mulch in the garden. What's good about mulching? Mulch suppresses the weeds. Who wan...

Woo hoo! It's been a whole month away from my blog, and I feel pretty ashamed of myself. But, to my excuse, we cannot do that much in th...

...that is the question. I meant synthetic fertilizers in that context. Strict definition of organic gardening does not allow use of synth...

If you are a gardener, and you are concerned about health quality of your produce, and you have kitchen vegetation leftovers, then, well... ...

What a versatile vegetable! Not only it is insanely productive, not bothered by pests and requires little attention, it also provides fertil...

My cool new little toy, mechanical kitchen scale. Green, baby! Would not it be nice if we could plant a garden and always have plenty o...

Let me start with an example of bad crop rotation (I do not always do as I preach ... :)) As you can see on the picture, the roots ha...

Now that we have our first linear foot of the bed dug out , we should start filling it with organic matter. What constitutes an organic matt...

Without my Good Ol Rusty it would be impossible for me to build the garden that I have and to continue expanding it. The grass in Florida is...