August Garden Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Florida Gardening
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- Wondering what you should plant in your Florida Vegetable Garden in the month of August? Check out this Florida Gardening Video where I give lots of Florida Gardening Tips to help you have a successful Florida Garden. When you are new to Gardening in Florida, you need all the help you can get so that you start a Florida Food Forest, grow a Central Florida Vegetable Garden, add color in your Tropical Garden, enjoy the best Florida Friendly Landscaping, and add Florida Native Plants.
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Official start of Fall is when Starbucks starts selling the pumpkin lattes 😅
Yes, let’s let a company dictate when the beginning of fall is. Your consumerism has issues. lol
I live in Tampa. I consider fall when it starts cooling down…. October! 😂😂
(November 😉)
Her august workbooks were printed 8 years ago!😜😂
Definitely not cooling down in North FL yet! Average temp is often hotter here.
Yes my zuchinni skeletons agree. Still too hot and wet and buggy
Couldn't spray if I wanted to bc of daily rain
@@agentbarron9768central gulf here.
One thing I hear you mention consistently is pest pressure. How do you deal with your garden pests? Companion planting? Pesticides? Manual removal? Predator attractants? I think it would be great to make a video of how your garden is always so lush and not eaten to death by pests!
Fall? After hurricane season😂!
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Florida native here feeling fall in october
In S FL and it’s still soo hot 🥵 don’t want to even think about being outside for planting.
For me fall is when the feels like stays solidly in the 70’s. So like late late August to early to mid September.
I’m in land o lakes, Fl (north Tampa). I hate August. Say it every year. Freaking hot, freaking humid. Can’t wait for this month to end.
I live in the same city and I agree August is brutal, especially because the rain and cloud cover that can sometimes give some reprieve from the beating sun are less common than they are in July. By this time I’m ready to take a break from gardening annuals and just wait until it cools down enough where I don’t dread being outside.
The predator tips are pure GOLD!!! Thank you for that! NO ONE else is talking about natural ways to prevent pests! New Sub!
I live just north of Tampa and consider Fall in October! August is super hot! 😂🥵
I live in South Florida and since you asked...I feel autumn starting in August, in fact, I noticed a (slite) change about a week ago. I used to feel it only in September in earlier years, but now definitively it already started. I feel it in my whole being. Autumn is on the way ❤
I have to add that I'm outside a lot no matter what time of the year, therefore I have become very sensitive to changes😊
late October starts feeling like fall to me.
Other people consider fall to start in September, but it is so hot in Central Florida! Other people are putting up fall decor in early Sept even in August! Oh My! I can't put up my fall decor until late October when it cools down just a tad!
I am in Orlando but I'm from VA. I have been here 3 years. It's not Fall until October/November. It's just sooooo hot in September
I'm soooooo ready for salads again.
I agree with you. Fall in Florida it feels like fall in August.
Whenever I start seeing pumpkin latte or pumpkin anything! That's when it begins! 😅😅😅
Fall is when hurricane season ends!🎉
I'm a little late to the conversation, but wherever I'm located, I think of the start to Fall when we get a week with two mornings of temps below 70 degrees. But I always remember that it's gonna have many more days in the 90's before Fall actually arrives to stay.
I live in north florida and to me its fall when the temps at night drop into the 60's ❤ i love this time of year! 💕
Fall for me is the start of school right after Labor Day weekend. August is still summer vacation to me. Thanks for the great video!!!
School starting after Labor Day?! Those days are long gone. My kids are going back to school in a week. L O L. But I agree August is still summer… But then again part of me wants to make it fall.
When do I feel that fall starts? When my neighbor, across the street, puts a fall wreath on the front door 😂
I'm originally from the North and a school teacher. Fall is when school starts, wherever you are.
I live around titusville. Fall starts when the golden rain trees go to seed with tiny pink chinese lanterns that remind me of autumn leaves.
I live in Rockledge ! So close!!! What are golden rain trees ?
Thank you so much for providing such great content. I love watching your videos. They’re very informative. Again is my opinion I live in South Florida a.k.a. Fort Lauderdale, where we got the 24 inches of rain last year and I believe fall does not start until around November down here.
Fall as a Floridian starts with the first cool front. I’ve been here all my life!
I love fall and am with you, let’s start fall in August..😂 maybe third week in August. My fall decorations and fall flowers will be in place by September 1st and stay until December. ❤
Soon as it starts feeling cool here is when I feel like it's fall.
Hung in to every word all the way til the end, as always.
I feel like I have a reverse seasonal affective disorder - I wilt through the summer heat and pounding sun, and then sometime in October (hopefully) the temp starts to drop a little, and I feel like I'm coming to life. That's when fall starts :)
I grew up in Arizona, have lived in the PNW, and now call FL my home - fall starts mid-august and is in full swing in September.
I don't have to worry about not having enough birds to control the bugs. I have squads of Bahaman Curly Tail lizards patrolling my gardens, so I actually have to try and make sure they don't eat ALL the butterfly larva, especially the Monarchs. Everything else is fair game, and they are very good at helping keep the bug levels down.
Such a good point! Lizards can be great friends of the garden!
I've started almost all my warm weather crops. I see that many have a 75-85 days to maturity range (maybe longer in Fall). However, that all will give us some blooms and fruit by October in Central Florida. So, the race is on to get my seedlings up. You explained it so well. If we have a hurricane, my guest room will be FILLED with babies!! LOL. I usually put my Fall display out in mid-September and for me, that is when it is "Fall".
Could you please tell me where you got you raised bed containers
Just subscribed.🎉
Yes August is the start of the fall in Florida I feel it in the air
A Florida Native for 67 years. To me, "Autum" starts in different months depending on the year. Mostly between Oct. And Dec.
I grew up on the Oregon coast. As a native Oregonian, I can attest that Fall does not begin in Florida until JANUARY!!! LOL
It’s still so hot and humid here in Brooksville (central) that I can’t imagine any of those traditional crops would start growing.
Is there a list of the trees that attract the caterpillars that attract the birds? I’m ready to add some of those.
I’m not far from you and throughout the summer I kinda just pack it up and throw some sweet potatoes in and grow a few random plants. Ready to start some seeds now and actually grow when it cools off.
Plumbago is one of my favorites, the first time I moved to Florida I saw it and fell in love with it.
Haha! I am from Nocal and have been in the FlKeys for 23 yrs and now recently in Coastal MS so I get both of you. Fall is all relative… too funny! And one of my favorites is scorpion weed.
Being a native Floridian; I always considered October as the month that fall starts. Believe it or not we used to get a cool front in the first two weeks of October, with climate change
that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. I really enjoy your videos they are always upbeat as well as informative. I also like to jerk your chain; remember it's just THESE not these ones
GoGators
And don't forget to hydrate while gardening!
Yes!
Fall starts the first day of school.
Thanks for the great video I consider fall when the temperature drops and it’s comfortable to be outside during the day.
For me, Fall in SFL begins in October, hopefully after the first "cool' front.
Same, in SFL end of October!
Fall in Florida? Most of the time, we have 10 months of hot and 2 months of not!
Can't wait this week until this storm passes and I'm going to start planting my garden. I gave up this summer was hot
I’m a fairly new subscriber to your channel and have lived in South Florida for about 5 years, originally from NJ where gardening was much different. I was initially turned off to gardening in Florida because of the fire ants. They invaded everything, including my planters where I had herbs and flowers. I’m going to try again, your videos are so inspiring and full of information. I miss gardening and it was one of my favorite hobbies. Your channel is awesome and is my go to for gardening in Florida, thank you! 🌻🌻🌻
South Florida here and Fall doesn’t start in my mind until October. August and September are the hottest and I’m just trying to keep stuff alive. Starfruit, papaya, avocado and Everglades tomatoes are happy 🥑🥥🍅
It’s fall when I can get from my door to my car without sweating.
South Florida here, yes, it is hot hot hot and humid....🙂
I mentioned before that I received your planner Christmas 2023. Am following your seed planting times. Looking forward to a better classic veggie season!
Floridian here🤗 and mid September is fall for me. They ALWAYS pushed fall clothes for 1st day of school and I was always too hot but Mom ordered from catalogs, which of course, all northern companies 😂😂😂🙄
I grew up in New England. I consider Sept the start of fall, but since I live in NE Florida now, I would say October/November. 😢
I’m in Lakeland and I started planting in spring 1st time this,year and I can’t wait for fall planting.
Having grown up in south florida, as a kid Autumn weather used to begin in October, now it can be November. The equinox is always the date I assumed Autumn starts.
Love your vids! I'm in a neighboring county and I struggle with growing anything. I was born here and for me it doesn't feel like Fall until October and the grass starts to feel cool to my feet in the evening. I'm counting down the days until then :) This heat is too much for me.
Hi you were right Sweet Cherry 100 tomatoes are so good! Currently getting a decent harvest everyday of them
I love mid- to late-October when we get that first cool snap! But August and September aren’t quite as brutal as May, June, and July.
Hmm...I'd say Fall begins for us SW Floridians in October/November
I grew up in the Midwest, and we call it fall after the equinox also. Great video!!!!
You are so right too Point out that 3 different areas I live in 10 BI live in Fort Lauderdale and yeah I can't plant anything outside until September I started my seedlings already about a months ago I hope it wasn't too soon but I'm transplanting them in pots right now and I'm gonna wait until September to put them in the ground
:) Thanks! That's a smart plan
Tampa native. School starts in the fall. I believe schools are open. It's still August!
Fall starts when the light changes. The temperature is the same but things look different.
I discovered Scorpion tail just growing wild in my pool garden. Not sure where it came from but super excited about it. My neighbor has the Purple Glory Tree. So glorious!!
For me fall is really at the end of October…..but for my garden 😅at the end of August
SW Florida is hot 11 months
For me, fall starts when the first cold snap hits. Unfortunately it will be a warm winter this year due to La Niña
Central-West Volusia - I am with you 100% on Cherokee Purple. Multiple seasons in a row tho, we start seedlings early October or plants in November. Otherwise, you cannot water enough for yhem to survive. The chance of minimal short freezes, we can handle. November thru March for us, on regular veggies.
I’m a native Floridian. Fall starts when the decorations go up at Disney World 👻 I just crank the ac and live in my delulu.
Actually, we do get a sign of Fall, and it is a change in light hue. I've seen before. It happens late September. You probably have not noticed it because late September is typically storm weather. Pay attention around September 20 onward, if it's not cloudy
In Northern FL autumn starts in late Sept early Oct
I've seen Yankee fall, I'll take the evergreens. I'm in central Florida. In the back of my house I had a sand pit. I made compost/ black mulch so I could put organic material into the ground and figured might as well try growing a garden. I like your suggestions from earlier videos. I also watch self sufficient me a channel from Australia, and several other gardening channels.
Sounds like a great idea!
I consider that once the "ber" months start that's the start of our "fall" even though September is the height of hurricane season, but the can be a slightest change in the late part of the month.
Happy to find this video and your channel. Useful content, some new to me, and well delivered.
Is that Chaya behind you?
Didn't know it's better to grow big tomatoes in the fall! Thank you! More or less have given up on heirloom tomatoes, but when I did grow them, I like Cherokee Purple and Mortgage Lifter. Black Cherry is my favorite small tomato, but Mike's Millions will reseed, especially if you have critters that like them as my dogs and chickens did.
I have a "food forest" yarden in north central FL, 15 years here, it took a while to incorporate the major differences, primarily HUMIDITY and blazing sun of the climate, into my prior experiences over the decades in upstate NY, WI, northern CA coast/mountains, CO high desert). Evolved primarily to a very non-traditional laissez-faire garden that includes food plants that like the climate, are fairly independent, and either self-sow or are perennial. Includes Chaya, katuk, tropical spinach, ginger, arrowroot, turmeric, sweet potatoes as a ground cover, banana, papaya, fig, mulberry, moringa, lemon, orange, etc. Water conservation is always a concern, too, to protect my shallow well, which I almost lost in 2011. Now I have 2000 gallons in two 10' swimming pool-pond of mosquitofish, etc. into which an IBC tank drains water from the roof for the dry times.
The feel of fall for me varies with weather, but generally starts around now - third week of August, after a wind/rain event (we just had Hurricane Debby) that twists, breaks and bends my tall plants so that they block paths, or tree debris just smashes them completely. Storm clean-up means pulling or cutting to the ground the damaged plants, which get composted. Grooming the jungle and creating big piles of pulled plants to make paths and compost feels like fall to me.
Apologies for the long post. My enthusiasm is high.
Have you covered growing flowers and other plants that have seeds that require stratification?
Sebastian Florida here (coastal 10a) fall is mid October for me. That's generally when we get a first light cool front in and hurricane season is for the most part over . I think of high heat summer as July August September.
I grew up in Florida and fall used to start in Sept back in the 60s and 70s. Now fall starts in south florida around the end of hurricane season, late Oct early Nov.
I am planting okra and sweet potatoes, my only concern is flooding so keeping them in grow bags.
I'm getting ready to sow my short day onion seeds. What do you think?
Fall begins in September for me.
I’m in Tampa and I’ve been growing some Carolina wonder and California wonder and the Cal wonder are like a weed, I have 8 5 inch bell peppers on my 3 month old plant meanwhile the Carolina wonder hasn’t put a single fruit on.
Sending prayers of protection to my fellow Florida Gardeners! Much love guys. Hope this Tropical storm doesn't become a full blown hurricane.
Great hints ❤ I recently planted a plumbago. My Firebush is doing great. I will definitely use these helpful hints. The bad part is I have a street light in my yard near my garden 😢 But the pro is I can do things after dark. Lol
Fall starts in October
September 1st is the beginning of the fall in my mind 😆
As a start, thank you for all your wonderful information. You have outperformed the local 'guru nursery' by far. Anyway, what do you use to control late blight and the many fungi that attack here in the north Florida sandhills? And, keep up the excellent work.
Fall starts in November here in central FL 😂
LOL! So late, I would not have expected that!
I grow my veggies in part shade here in Fort Lauderdale.
Smart! Smart! Smart!
Autumn started for us end of high school football season going into the “winter” sports 😂. End of October. Winter starts at Christmas break. So November and December. Mid May-July is first summer and August- Mid October is second summer.
Great tips and bonus tips! Thank you from WPB
Halloween here in RI it starts getting chilly.
Once it begins to cool off!
For Florida, I'd say October for the season change. It's not really fall for someone who grew up in the north, but we don't have four seasons in south Florida anyway. I explain it to family up north as a hot rainy season and a dry cooler season with maybe a hot dry month as a transition between the two. I think it might be a little different for more north/central Florida, but I'm in 10b and pretty close to the water.
September for me!
Florida fall I feel like in mid Florida
Love your channel very informative. I just start gardening, I love what I growing, but I have ants going up and down my plants. What are your suggestion ?
I’m new to Florida and your videos have been so informative. Almost too much lol. Which is great! But can you partition your videos? That way those of us in south Florida can skip north Florida stuff? Or we can go straight to the veggies or fruit we want to grow in the video? It would be appreciated
I’ll do my best☺️
FALL....is NOT August, which is the middle of summer! I agree with what your husband is saying about the equinoxes, but most people consider summer to start in June (mostly because school is out), but it's still spring until near the end of June. Same with fall--people go back to school down here in August, so some would call that fall, and up north, they start in September, which is at least reasonable. BUT....how people can be sitting in 90s and very high humidity and say it's fall when we still have 7 weeks of summer left is beyond me. Summer has 12 weeks, like all the seasons, so at this point, we've only officially had 5 weeks of it....most of summer is ahead of us, but we want to call it fall?? Huh?? Of course, all of this is really moot, because central and south Florida have at least 6 months of summer temperatures and humidity. When I was working outside (Disney's Animal Kingdom), I was acutely aware of this....if you're standing outside in it, you pay attention! We've had 90s as early as March and as late as November, though not in the past couple of years. If we go April to October, that's 7 months of 90s/ summer. So when do I consider it to be fall? If you're still reading, I'm a teacher, so I naturally think fall starts.....in NOVEMBER, when the temperature finally gets out of the 90s, and when the night time heat and humidity get out of the 80s!
I didn’t know that! What about solar landscaping lights?
I'm interested in getting a copy of your planner but was wondering if you had a flipthrough anywhere?
Hi: what are the best FL native nurseries you have visited? I live near Tampa. I know of Little Red Wagon Native Nursery & Florida Native Plants Nursery & Landscaping in Sarasota. Love your channel. Thanks, Kenneth