Growing Food in Florida

Just a gentle remainder, we are starting tomato, eggplant, and pepper seeds in Florida in late July to early August. So, if you have not go...

In my never-ending quest to grow tomatoes year-round in Florida I have embarked on trying them out in our excruciating summer heat. We know ...

Whew! Somebody aircondition Florida, please! It has been an extremely hot spring. At the end of May we usually finish harvesting spring se...

In April we are getting close to be done with the cool weather season crop and are getting ready for the warm weather harvest; so all in all...

Warm weather is here, and Florida gardeners are preparing for the summer harvest. All main warm weather vegetables ( tomatoes , peppers , an...

Well, here it is, end of January in Florida, and I am having the best crop of tomatoes, ever. It was my goal, and a dream, to learn how...

Who says we cannot have our cake and eat it too? In Florida we can. With some adjustments, we can grow tomatoes, peppers and eggplant year r...

Most of warm season vegetables should be in the ground now. These are tomatoes, peppers and eggplant.  Eggplant and Peppers    ...

August and March are prime months in Florida for replanting tomato, pepper and eggplant plants. Whether you germinated these seedlings from...

It is a third week of July and gardeners are busy preparing for the fall season. If you do not have any seedlings going, seed some tomatoes ...

Now that we have tomato seeds scooped out and left in a cup to ferment, we watch for the signs of actual fermenting. These will be cloudy wa...

If you have some tomatoes in you garden that you want to save seeds from, or just want to have some seeds for planting, here's how we ca...

What can we plant in July? Surprisingly, a lot of things! July is one of the busiest months of the year for seeding future crops. We are now...

I always overplant, meaning I plant too much of some things that we cannot possibly eat in the amounts harvested, especially tomatoes. When ...

Tomato harvest is upon us and if you are like me, you have a lot of tomatoes in your back yard garden. I grow Roma variety specifically for ...