Growing Food in Florida

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

I was very excited to see young luffa fruit that appeared very quickly. But, as with many squash and cucumber type plants, the first promis...

This year I want to try out the "three sisters garden". This type of garden combines corn, pole beans and squash in the same area....

September is a very fruitful month. We can still plant and seed warm season vegetables as well as start cool season vegetables from seed. Th...

"Chooks", that's what they call chickens in Britain. I have some too, very young ones, only two weeks old. Exactly four Plymou...

August and March are the prime time to seed cucumbers. While it is usually advised to seed cucumbers and squash directly into the garden, b...

Luffa has been growing pretty nicely. The plant is not bothered by insects, heat or anything really. It just keeps advancing farther and far...