Unbelievable Tips for Growing a Successful Florida Vegetable Garden
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- Summer is winding down and it is time for us to gather all the fruits of our labor down here in Zone 10a! We live in Central Florida where we harvested pounds and pounds of food from our Central Florida Vegetable Garden and yes, it is in our urban front yard.
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Your excitement is infectious. I might grow beets now… and I don’t even like them.
🤣 I love this comment!
Yes, friend! 9b and we start big tomatoes end of October, cover and protect as needed over winter. Cherokee Purple, it grew like a tree, lost count of gorgeous big ones. Organza bags over them as soon as they form, no pest issues. Raised bed, Neem dreched preplanting to help with nematodes. Amish paste for roma. And this is gross lol but we are avid fishermen. Minnows that do not survive or carcasses, go in the hole! No joke, amazeballs.
Do you start from seed in Oct?
I use sweet potato greens as a spinach alternative for cooking and smoothies
Tip for organizing seeds. I found the BUNKER HILL SECURITY 0.30 Caliber Ammo Box - Item 63135 / 61451 from Harbor Frieght keeps all my seeds in one place. This one is plastic but they carry it in metal too. I put mine in alphabetical order. You can also add index cards to make dividers.
This is the best comment section ever .. I want to screen shot everyone’s suggestions!
I love cubanelle peppers for my sofrito. They have so much flavor!
I didn’t know cubanelle wasn’t spicy. I will try them next time. I did grow the California wonders they did well in my green stalk
I grow so much of those ❤ them anyway! Still doing amazing now….!
I live in Houston, TX 9A and am growing the Suyo Long cucumber. I got it from Baker Creek. It is parthenocarpic and does not need to be pollinated to produce a fruit. It has been extremely productive and is still alive and going. We have had temps in the mid to high 90s for a few weeks now so it doesn't seem to mind the heat. I would definitely recommend it. No bitterness either.
Aji is a Spanish word used for pepper and dulce means sweet. Aji dulce= Sweet Pepper, and Ajises is the plural, so, peppers. That type of pepper is essential in making "sofrito" a condiment use in many Hispanic recipes.
I’m in zone 10a, Treasure Coast. I love Ting Ping eggplant, it grows so well. I chop it, toss in olive oil, salt/pepper and roast in the oven. After it cools, I freeze it in pint containers and add to my pasta dishes. Kale does really well here in the winter, it freezes and dehydrates well too. I blanch and freeze the sweet potato leaves after I harvest the sweet potatoes and use like frozen spinach in rice or pasta. I have had good success with sugar rush peach peppers. I use them to make peach pepper sauce with peaches and another version with the abundance of mangos I have from my tree.
If you need more strawberries just let me know. I have a ton of them. We put about 20 in the Green Stalk my son bought me for mother's day. ❤😊 The raised bed is still full of them.
You can juice the watermelon!! Add some sugar, or not. Its delicious either way.
Have had good success with baker creek turtle black beans in zone 9a
I am Florida 9B and I tried roma tomatoes in the past with no luck, but this past spring I grew “pink fang”tomatos which are also a paste tomato and they were SO prolific! Hands down my favorite tomato to grow now. We canned lots of salsa and pasta sauce with them. 😋 highly recommend!
Thank you❤ il try those tomatoes. I'm in 9b also florida
I just planted these in 10a. Hopefully they are happy here too. Any specific recommendations for growing Pink Fang?
I know it seems overly simple and boring but I have been having really good luck recycling my kitchen scraps such as spring onions and celery. I am using shade cloth to protect against heat. OrlandoFL
If you are upping you carrot and beet production, I recommend ABC salad. Shredded Apple, Beets, Carrots with a little olive oil and lemon juice. It’s so good kinda like a coleslaw, or small dice whatever you like!
I tried Rattlesnake pole beans this year. I took a chance with the weather and sowed about 20 seeds in February. They started to decline after my daughter "watered" them when I went out of town in early June. I wish I'd weighed how many we ate! I was very impressed with them.
A really cool carrot I grew was Black Nebula from Baker Creek Seeds. It doesn’t taste good raw but I used it to make the most amazing purple carrot cake.
It is just fun to grow and it grew well in Miami, zone 10
I’m still growing Sunland Romaine on my Tower Garden. I’m in 9B Florida. I harvested 4 heads yesterday and we’ve eating them already. I have a few more growing and I am planting some more today. Sunland seems to be more heat resistant than Jericho. I’m growing Summer Dance cukes right now (I always grow them all summer).
I always have really good luck with short carrots. That one you mentioned has been my go to. They are so much sweeter straight from the garden. I'm in 10a on the treasure coast. I've had really good luck with red Russian kale. It's not all that good fresh eating but cooked it takes on a really good flavor.
I'm in 10a, Thank you for all of the information you provide.
I am in Florida panhandle and this year I grew a market ore 76 from high mowing organic seeds it did awesome best I have done
Awahia onion is a variety from Hawaii that’s supposed to work well in tropical climates. That’s what I’m trying this year. I’m doing an Asian variety of paste tomatoes for this fall (Pink Thai egg). I’ve found a lot of tropical Asia varieties of plants do really well here.
Where did you order the onion seeds from?
@@NanaTrece9444 Trade Winds Fruit
National Pickling cucumbers have been doing great for me this year here in 9a.
I buy a lot of my seeds from the urban harvest she does seeds that grow well in Florida.
And she’s local. I like supporting our local backyard growers community.
Where can I find “urban harvest?” Thanks
@@aliciairvin2786 she is on line at the urban harvest. She sells seeds and plants in st Pete. She has a good amount of education videos on y tube. I also belong to her seed club which coorinate with our growing seasons.
@@marilynearl6887 how do you like the seed club. I have thought about it, but my family are picky eaters. (They don't like beans -just the green kind.)
@@caratmama4769 I love it only 2 second season in club. I do have picky eaters also. But I love new foods to explore this month. I started this week Egyptian spinach , okra, amarth, jicama a root crop the can be prepared like potatoes example in fries,winged beans that can be prepared just like green beans
Ohhh, I would ❤ to see a video on your canning of full meals with your produce and herbs.
Buttercrunch lettuce, Paul Robeson tomatoes, Vates collards, and Datil peppers have been rockstars in my garden 💫
I grow onions from seeds starting early August indoors then transplant in October. My favorite varieties are Red Creole and White Creole and Texas Grano. Great list, thanks for the varieties.
We're in the Villages 9b and had great luck this year with Dox f1 hybrid. Still have some going.
Great job 👏
watermelon has been doing great for us! They're so satisfying to grow because they're so fast, you get to see new growth every day! 🤩 I'm looking to try some pink tomatoes this fall and now want to add those carrots. onions seem so complicated. I have some starts growing now but maybe I put them in a tad late.
Making my list. I enjoyed reading all the comments. I'm taking notes & will be shopping for my seeds very soon. Still figuring out my garden plan. I keep adding grow bags, another one just arrived today, lol. Thanks for all the helpful advice.
Thanks!
My everglades tomstoe plsnts finally produced but they didapear..i think the birds are eating them ... and A TON Of tomatoe plants poped out of my compost and thse tomatoes were HUGE 😮...
My dinosaur kale is still going strong as well. My best producer this year was floridade tomatoes and I actually have a few plants still and flowering. I think I'm 9B. South Orlando
try out hoss tools for their onion sets. they have a bundle with 3 different types of short day onions they send out a red, granex, and a round yellow/white every year they've grown fabulous for us. we've been growing swiss chard over the summer to replace spinach my family loves it in salad with some lemon juice. it can get buggy but it grows so rapidly the bugs cant keep up. the pickle worms have made cukes/squash impossible here 9b without netting and hand pollinating.
this has been the first year ive had a great crop of bell peppers. when are you starting yours? an early start and lots of shade in the beginning and coplanting with beans really helped. they are still going strong. we harvested like 30 today alone... friends and family are hiding from me as i try to share more of them.
romas are the way to go. we're bringing in about 20lbs of them a day, though the season is almost over for us now. i'd say we have 2-3 weeks more of harvesting unless i decide to pull them all out and start pinkeyed peas to rebuild the soil a bit. asward eggplants are my new favorites. they produce giant eggplants that are super sweet. they seem to be resiliant to heat and to the crazy rain we've had lately.
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I’m zone 10b and have had super success with Brazilian spinach (sisso). Is grows fast and SO EASY to propagate. It is delicious! Please try it. I’m in Miami if you want a few starter plants.
Sisso is on my list for sure!
I’m new to Florida just moved from Oklahoma & I love your Channel! When do you plant Onions here? I love growing onions & garlic, so easy to grow them in Oklahoma ❤️
Our Black Magic kale that we planted in Sept/Oct is still going strong even now. It's in full sun, and still growing. And, beets are awesome!
I just discovered your channel today!!! How come??? I am a SFl gardener who loves natives, edibles, wildlife and everything related. But I am a FL transplant from the southernmost point of the continent... near Antarctica, can you imagine how well I used to understand FL climate? I failed soooooooo many times in my gardening efforts.... but a couple of years ago I felt determined to grow some food and started researching. Today I watched like 6 of your videos and I loved each and everyone of them. Thanks for sharing!!!!! Let's keep learning and feeding the bees.
I'm in coastal Texas. I tried California Wonder bell peppers too, and...eh. They're not doing too well. I'd like to find some other kind of large sweet pepper with walls that at least approach the thickness of bell peppers. I had a lot of luck last year with Jimmy Nardello peppers, but they're no substitute for bell peppers.
Zone 10A as well. Per your recommendation, I grew Cubaanelle peppers and had great success. I grow most of my herbatious edibles in containers. Assorted basils, garlic chives, green onions, Malabar spinach, dill, rosemary and Everglades and cherry tomatoes are my success stories and the most used in my kitchen.
Thanks for this! I have been so discouraged by such a long hot dry season- I only have a few black eyed peas sweet potatoes and chili peppers growing. My best performer in tomatoes has been sun gold! Since it’s a hybrid, and comes in very small seed packets, I’m buying more for sure. I got onion starts from Hoss tools that gave yellow and red varieties- red onions did best. I’m also hoping to find good seed potatoes this year. Anxious for Aug/Sept seed starting of brassicas- including Dino kale😉
I'm having trouble trying to harvest sunflower seeds because of the rain. They aren't drying out and the flowers don't seem to have mature seeds in them.
Our Dino kale is still going, too.
Kale thousandhead is growing great now (zone 9b Florida) my beets are ready to pick, datil peppers still going strong, surprisingly my cilantro are thriving and my sweet peppers are producing well too!
I have tried and tried spinach. Even went the hydroponics way and still nothing.I’ll be reading comments.
Do you have a vegetable stock recipe that you love, or do you just throw in all kinds of veggie scraps and cook it down?
My favorite sweet red peppers are Jimmy Nardello from Baker Creek. Oh my gosh, they produce like crazy! And overwinter well (we covered a huge plant with a tarp and put in a light bulb when it got cold last winter). They are an Italian pepper with a thin wall and many seeds to save. Delicious! We are in zone 9a. So far, I have not had much success with spinach, beets or carrots. 🙁 Any tips would be appreciated. We get our starts from our local farmer's market.
Brazilian spinach. It cant grow from seed. Live 9b new Smyrna beachside. It grows crazy
True story, my husband's employer-an orange big box store- threw away a whole display full of seeds to make way for Xmas decorations in early fall. He wanted to get them for me, but they wouldn't let him. Straight to the dumpster 😢
I say time for dumpster diving!
I went to maybe the same store (rhymes with Gnome Repo) where there was a shopping cart filled with half-dead plants and they wouldn't sell them at a discount nor give them away. Dude, you gotta give the plants some respect, no?
I needed this kick int he pants to get my seeds ordered! I have found some new varieties of tomatoes from a local grower, Practical Plants. He will have a Fall plant sale with tons of tomato and pepper starts if you want to try some new ones. I bought some Aqui tomatoes that were a Roma that did great. The couple I pulled up were RKN free! I also got turned on to Chocolate Sprinkles tomatoes that are a super sweet little snacker! Has anyone found a mild Radish? I am great at growing them, but don't love the taste.
I live in zone 10a in North Fort Myers. Malibar spinach does very well here. Plant it anytime. You practically can’t kill it.
I’ve killed it 😂
@@joshalynnwardful omg, how?
I can't seem to grow cucumbers no matter what variety I try. I am in 9B/10A on the treasure coast.
I am a newbie to organic vegetable gardening In Ocala Florida and I have a question about buying conventional but non GMO starters or seedlings but using organic methods until they produce. Will the fruits and vegetables be pesticide free if I only use organic methods or will they still be contaminated from the conventional treatment when they were started? I am a surviving cancer patient and I am very concerned about the pesticides. Thanks for your great videos!
Armenian Cucumbers for sure….But be ready….to eat them a lot…..It produces like crazy….I end up using them in salad and I make cucumber salsa ❤❤ try it so Yum!
Do you have a video specifically about the Everglades tomatoes? I bought some from DTG store but after hearing how prolific they are I’m apprehensive to sow them. I don’t want them to take over my kinda small space and don’t want to be fighting them forever.
I have tried to can salsa before but didn’t like the recipe. Can you share yours?
My attempt at a roasted salsa ended up as a salsa paste. It is easy to make salsa out of the paste with a handful of fresh tomatoes, but I need salsa help!
@@caratmama4769 I make c fresh one that I love but it doesn’t can well
I'm having so many problems with pests and ick getting on our plants. I've tried many different solutions but with not much success.
I'm right there with you 😢 Even the varieties that thrive in the FL summer are being bothered by pests.
I have beautiful jalapeño plants but the tiny peppers keep dropping 😢😢 they all had an initial harvest, but haven’t held on to a pepper since. I’ve used a predominantly phosphate fertilizer the twice the last month. Idk what to do :/
Recipe for canning onion soup 🙏🏽❤
I’m in central Florida on the nature coast. What time of the year to I transplant banana pups.
Carmen Italian red peppers do well and taste great. 10a on the opposite coast than you.
Thanks for the tips! I am having the worst time with tree roots growing into my raised beds here in Florida. I have several fruit trees and a large oak in the yard. Despite being a good distance away (to get out of the shade of the trees, of course), my beds get roots growing into them every season. Each year, I dig and rip them up, but at the end of the season, they have refilled, and my yields go down every year, despite now having homemade compost going into the bes. I'm willing to change out the type of bed (currently western red cedar, home built), as these have begun to rot after 4 years. I don't have other location options. Is there enough interest in this for a video? It's very disheartening.
Try laying down a few layers of cardboard. It helps atleast for a little bit. U can mulch over it to make it pretty then set up your beds. I know I struggle with all my pots if they are on top of the dirt.
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I accidentally weed whacked the only 2nd year swiss chard plant that I had going to seed for next year. 🙄
do you sell those pepper seeds your neighber gave you? same with cubanel?
My carrots never bolted. They are still just green bushes. Is that weird for June? (Zone 9b)
Execelente 😂
What do I think? I think, HOW CAN YOU LIVE without watermelon! 😊
How to spell aHEEsay peppers?
Ping tung.
We live near Fort Myers. How do you combat the ants in the garden? We've had ants decimate crop roots (i.e. lettuce, potatoes, tomatoes, etc.)
I used started this recipe from another gardener - 1 part Borax to 5 parts sugar then add honey (a little) mix in a water a little a a time keeping the mixture granular not runny. Working for me.
@@sandramorton5510 Thank you! I will try the recipe.
I’m in Punta Gorda. I use orange oil/Garrett juice. It works amazing.
@@megantiseo7439 Thank you!
Ouch, I was caught off guard to hear you take the name of God in vain. God Bless you. 🤗
Something ate my baby watermelon from inside out.
Rain rain rain first none now too much
Laughing with you being in a funky zone because the Line for Zone 9b to 10a goes straight through the middle of my house so my backyard is 9b and my front yard is 10a 🫠
I feel the same way!
I've been extremely confused about the Zone thing because on some maps I have looked at I am 9b but then others it looks like I am 10a 🤷♀️ does anyone know which map is the most accurate?