The garden had beans, daikon, cabbage survive 15 inches of rain. The 30+ winds for 20plus hours has all my trees with a little lean. Put strawberries into beds yesterday.
To find strawberry starts, I called a local nursery who I know does a strawberry u-pick every year and asked them if I could purchase some bare root starts from them so I could get them going at the same time. They were happy to help.
I'm on the other side of Tampa Bay from you, just North of Apollo Beach. I have all my garden in containers bc of where we live. I packed my whole garden in our enclosed utility trailer for 3 days for Ian (even the banana tree!) and I only lost 1 sugar beet seedling. My tomatoes, peppers, sweet potatoes, fruits & herbs all are still doing awesome. I will never garden in the ground again lol.
I just woke up and I'm watching this as I start my day & make coffee! I'm ordering a few raised garden beds soon. I currently have over 20 container fruit trees, can't wait to start growing veggies too!
Awwww! Thank you Teresa 🥰 You don't know how good that makes me feel. I actually was told at work when I do presentations I need to stop moving my hands. 😂😭 I never stopped.
Thank you for your update video. We're in SW Florida (Lehigh Acres) and got high winds plus some rain from Ian. A lot of our trees & plants have leaf damage (Avocado, Mango, Bananas, Papaya, etc.). Raking up the foliage debris is akin to raking confetti. I have six 46 gallon and four 30 gallon bags full. We're thankful that the trees & plants are sending out new leaves. I have a banana rack that made it through Ian. Red potatoes are getting green tops & hope to plant some tomatoes this weekend. Have a good one!
Yes! It is like raking up confetti... good fertilizer when it breaks down. Wow that is a lot of bags!!! Yay for your banana that is happy news! Happy Gardening!
Earthbox in Ellenton has strawberry starts this week and two more varieties coming next week! I picked up 35 Brilliance strawberry starts yesterday. Festival and sensation arrive next week.
Still warm here in SW Florida ( Port Charlotte). Planted some peppers, tomatoes and lettuce in the ground. Garden looks sad after loosing few bananas and most of papayas full of fruits. Hoping to be able to save my mango tree that is still on the ground. In the meantime enjoying watching you while drinking my morning coffee. Have a beautiful day everybody! 💚
OK, I hope this isn't coming too late, but Elise Pickett of Urban Harvest was taking reservations for strawberry runners: Chandlers 6 for $6 on her website. The catch is you have to be able to pick up in person, as strawberry runners are live plants, in St Petersburg, FL. She also has a good assortment of seeds available for Florida fall gardening (seeds can be mailed to you). Probable pickup: weekend of Oct 22. Jacqueline, thanks for another great video. Even though the weather has been so fantastic after Ian, I have been moping, and letting myself count all the stuff that is NOT going right. So, with your encouragement, I am restarting more vegetables, preparing to overwinter my poblano peppers, harvesting green onions, and shoring up and fertilizing the survivors. Time to learn to make Roselle jam!
This is great to know! I live close enough to get plants from Elise. I ordered some from Amazon and will see how those do too since everyone doesn’t live close enough for Elise’s pick up. Thank you so much m! 😄 Also I’m so happy to help you get motivated. Ian was tough emotionally for so many of us. It is ok to mourn the losses because you put hard work into those plants 🥰 But I’m glad you are ready to start new and take advantage of the fabulous weather
this why I love comments, you guys always drop those gems. This is helpful. I live in Jax, but I have family in Tampa. I may check and see if any are still avail. Thanks.
Still pruning bushes and removing broken raised bed sections. I’ve planted more starts, and am rearranging things. It seems like a restart for the whole garden. We too have gotten almost no rain since the hurricane. Plants go from drowning to drought- crazy. Thanks as always for the inspiration!
I’m in Northwest Florida and we had a monsoon in the summer. It rained almost every day for three months, then in September in stopped and we haven’t had 1/8 inch of rain since then leaving everything bone dry. Temps are still in the 80s during the day but getting into the 50s at night.
I'm in the panhandle, 9A. Both Chandler and Sweet Charlie do well for me here. This year I ordered Sweet Charlie from Ison's and Chandler from Hoss Tools. I've purchased strawberries from Ison's in the past and have been very happy. I haven't bought strawberries from Hoss before, but all the seeds I've bought from them have done extremely well so I thought I'd give their strawberry plugs a try this year.
Parksdale Farmers market in Plant City usually will have starts in October/November time …. On their website you can request they email you when they get them in
Yes…. No rain for two weeks since the hurricane….I’m in central Florida and was like “what the heck”….. good to know what crops to plant this fall…. I’m new to raised gardening so this was helpful. My summer crops were disappointing.
Still without power here in St James City Florida, but doing well. My starts didn't make it, but I will restart soon. Just now have boil water only now fulltime. Was happy to see your video. We do have mobile hot spots. We are doing ok and we will rebuild.
I Ordered sweet Charley strawberry starts. I currently have carrots from seed growing and onion. Trying tomatoes again, this past summer it was a huge fail for me. I also have Lettuce growing in containers -kale, spinach, arugula & baby mix. Love your motivation, I’m going to trim back my pepper plants today. I’m in Tarpon Springs.
I actually start everything in Nov including tomatoes, well I start those in September and plant out in November. Last year I did that and got a huge crop of tomatoes. I have 8 raised beds and follow the square foot garden method and must say it works out really good. I let things grow harvest and replace and I'll do that all the way until may/June. Then put the beds to rest. I've tried summer growing and got nothing in return. It's hard, not even my okra or cow peas did good.
We had 16” of rain during Ian alone in Sarasota, and the ground was already saturated. We had another 6” this week in a single afternoon. 2022 has been the worst year so far for our little farm. Planted seeds this week between continued cleaning up. I’ve had the worst success with pumpkins, which I love to eat. I refuse to give up though :)
16 inches!?! I believe it. Talking to my friend in Sarasota... I think y'all may have gotten a bit more rain... since you were closer in to the storm. Was is 6 inches?!? Thursday, my little and I were debating if it was going to be a sprinkle or a hard rain. He called it... hard rain. I was shocked how heavy it was. On pumpkins... I had to start them a couple of time and they were slow to go. But once they started going.... I love your spirit 🥰
You mentioned you were looking for strawberry plants for your garden. As you know, Plant City is the winter strawberry capital of the world. Parksdale market just announced, on Wednesday, they have bare root strawberry plants available. I just picked some up today for my garden. Just thought I’d share in case you’re willing to make the drive to pick some up.
Last weekend I put fresh soil in all my garden beds & planted a bunch of seeds & grabbed some starter plants at 2 local farmers markets👍🏼👍🏼I’m ready to go!
North Tampa- having some very confused cold weather veggie volunteers pop up in my garden and then look miserable when things heat up again. 😵 I have arugula sprouting all over - hoping the weather turns cooler and they can fill out properly!
It's been dry up here in N. Florida. We were on the edge of Ian and it pulled away any remaining moisture. It's also supposed to be in the upper 30's to low 40's next week which is so strange for this time of year
I saw some of the nature coast beaches... crazy how far back the water got. Heard it took a week for it to come back towards inland. And those temperatures are crazy for October.
I had 2 raised beds and 4 earth boxes... the hurricane knocked down several large pine trees and 1 fell right on my beds! Complete loss! I started roselle earlier in the year and they were completely blown down, but I propped them back up and they’re starting to bloom! My Earthboxes had tomatoes, peppers and green onions... the onions did ok, but the rest were stripped (hoping they’ll come back. I’m discouraged by the loss of the beds and don’t have the time or money to redo them right now :(. Port Charlotte area...
OH no Theresa 😞 That is horrible. The tomatoes and peppers I think will bounce back. Both can take pretty good prunes. You're doing the right thing and focusing on what you can do right now. Getting trees moved and cleaning up the garden is the priority.
Love your videos. Glad y’all faired well though the hurricane. I live in the Daytona Beach area and lost all my amaranth, squash and zucchini. Just planted red and yellow onion, romaine lettuce, green onion, iceberg lettuce, and cabbage to replace the loses. My mulberry tress were defoliated on one side and are producing new leaves and all those areas are producing new mulberries as well. Just like the video you did to make mulberries produce, but you don’t have to defoliate the entire tree if you don’t want to. Again, thanks for all the great info.
Yep it sucked rocks. I went to Kerby's and cheated. I bought seedlings of things that I lost due to Sept. and Hurricane. It was not cheap. My sweet potatoes didn't do well. My Okra finally decided to grow. My papaya has not started producing. Had to replant as my 3 Mature plants simply stopped production and basically died. Well all but 1. It fell over during a storm in Aug. However those were 5-7 year old plants.
It's still been pretty warm in my part of SF. Lows are only dipping down into the mid to high 70s. We did not get as much rain this year. It seems like everyone north of us ended up with it all. I'm harvesting my sweet potatoes this week. I'm excited to see how the tubers did. I planted a new to me variety that's supposed to produce really well in the FL heat. I hope so. I filled up a whole Greenstalk container with them, so it's going to be such a let down if I didn't end up with a good harvest of sweet potatoes. Other than that, I'm planting warm weather crops this week. I still have peppers going also, but I'm also planting a few more varieties this week. I'm looking forward to having home-grown tomatoes again. I'm planting four different cherry tomatoes and four different slicer tomatoes this week. One thing I highly recommend is Brazilian spinach! It has done amazing all summer long down here in SF. It was the main source of my dark leafy greens this summer. It's still going strong. I think it will grow all winter down here and doesn't die back. Not sure if it would die back or keep going in more northern parts of FL that actually get a frost and colder temps. Since it grows from cuttings, it was very easy to propagate more and would do well indoors with a colder climate. It also did much better than the longevity spinach that I bought at the same time.
Citrus Co/9a here and it's been so dry. Harvesting roselle and some peppers, lots of papaya still flowering and making fruit. I have strawberries going from bare root starts but nothing else new yet.
Same here... so dry... and then I got I don't know how many inches of rain on Thursday! I thought it was going to drizzle... boom! Easily a couple inches in an hour. Sounds like you have a bunch of great things going Tim for fall!
@@WildFloridian We haven't had any rain since Ian. Picked out a Thanksgiving turkey from a nearby farm & am going to make some kind of roselle chutney to go with it. Should be fun!
In Orlando so I can relate, everything looking beat up, also went into high gear about planting my fall/cool crops. Nature is bountiful so it will all be good!
I bought a strawberry plant last year at ACE, and they planted themselves on one of my beds, they keep going, they have been spreading for over a year now, my struggle is that some other animal always eat the fruit before I can, but I am still hopeful. 🙃
Try covering the plant with a wire basket or arch. I had the same problem last year and the baskets helped. You do need to remove the baskets in the morning or make sure the holes are large enough for pollinators to get to the flowers. Good luck this year!
Great looking bananas and peppers Jacqueline!. I have about 16 papayas in my tree now,first harvest ever!. My tomatoes are looking sad but I have tons of hot peppers. Planting some fall crops now and I just bought a new raised bed. Cassava should be close to harvest now.
I feel like I am starting over with most of my garden this year, lost my banana plant that was just starting to fruit right before Hurricane Ian came through with the winds, and lot of other plants, I am greatful it wasn't worse. I threw a ton of seeds all around my garden and will be planting out some kale and kohlrabi soon, hope other Florida gardens are better than my garden 🌱🌱🌱💞💞💞
aphids keep going after my collards friggin aphids uuugh ive grown beets in a pot too just for the greens theres a place here that has beet greens salad that i love also if your on food stamps food stamps pay for seeds and food plants
Try planting milkweed near by. Aphids love milkweed A LOT. Swamp Milkweed and Butterflyweed would be the varieties that can handle the soil that is in a veggie garden. It doesn't hurt the milkweed to have aphids and once they start going crazy... small predatory wasps and ladybugs will move it.
Hello, I planted cucumbers, corn, and pumpkin in the middle of august and everything is stunted I’m thinking it need maybe compost or manure idk What do you think would be best to add to my garden?
Is the garden getting enough sun? The sun is weaker right now. So you want at least 4 hours of direct sun. It could be nutrition. You could add a fertilizer. Watch out if you haven't built up organic matter... liquid fertilizer will wash through. So you may want to do a mix of fast (liquid) and slow (compost).
Do you always do little tomato cages around your peppers for stability? In your hurricane updates when you were talking about “to stake or not to stake..” makes me think I shouldn’t support them, but I’ve also had pepper plants snap lots of times..🤔
I started this year with adding the small cages for peppers because the peppers were all over the ground and getting nibbled by millipedes the staking question was immediately after the hurricane, I’ve gone through and restated many plants since then.
Please keep your banana rack. We had to harvest a very small rack the days after the hurricane and today that rack ripened all together. They are on the smaller side, but still super flavorful. I know if people who harvest their bananas green to use them in place of green plantains. I'm disappointed on all my Seminole pumpkins; most of them failed to sprout, and the ones that sprouted, Mr bunny ate them all 🐇. He's also been eating all my carrot tops and any other tender greens he can jump and eat off my raised beds 😭
Gotta get some Seminole pumpkin going! Daisy Goodman is selling seeds? Love that family. Huge fan. Love your channel too, girl. I'm in Lecanto in Citrus County. God bless. ❤️
I know this isnt a cooking channel... but can you do a video on what you cook with the pumpkins? I always want to grow pumpkin but we end up not knowing how to eat them.
You can use pumpkin like you would butternut squash. It's great cubed and roasted, either with EVOO, salt and pepper, or with brown sugar and cinnamon for something a little sweeter. It's also good baked as a savory side dish somewhat like a baked sweet potato or to make a sweet dessert like pumpkin pie. It also makes really good soup or puree. You can also pressure can cubes to puree later for soup or mashed pumpkin (like mashed sweet potatoes). You can add carrots, celery, onion, and granny smith apples, so when you open the jar all you have to do is blend it for soup. You can use water as the liquid when canning but I like to use chicken stock if I am going to make soup from it later. One thing I have not done with pumpkin but may try is chili. I make a black bean sweet potato chili that is really good and I think the pumpkin could stand in for the sweet potato.
DC is totally correct! Ben looks up butternut squash recipes for ideas. Ben and I have debated back and forth about cooking videos. I know that we have differences of what we grow and how we use our veggies and fruits versus the north. So there may be some in the future. Just trying to figure out what that may look like.
@@WildFloridian I'd love some new butternut squash recipes! Or even just ideas. I ended up with 41 South Anna (the hybrid Waltham butternut and Seminole pumpkin). They are absolutely delicious. And the only reason they stopped at 41 was because I tore up the vines to make room for my fall garden.
Pumpkins should be planted spring and summer (depending on variety). I planted mine too early and I believe that caused them to stay small forrrrreeeeeveer. After I did my original plantings they just keep going… it is crazy!
For strawberries I got some camarosa from Penseberryfarm, Im waiting for sweet sensation from gurney, whitwam is supposed to have some soon. I haven't had luck from Amazon in the past hopefully this year is better
I had cauliflower and cabbages up. Then I flooded with Ian. My plants survived and are green and still growing. Will they be ok? Or should I pull out and restart?
Leave them for sure! If they have healthy green growth. We are in the beginning of cold wether crop season, so they have plenty of season to bounce back and produce.
When it comes to cold weather crops the shortening of sunshine hours and the reduction of UV index makes Florida more similar to northern states (New York, Michigan) in spring and early summer... so from that perspective it makes them more productive.
When do you recommend to plant garlic? Do you think it will do well in a container? I am in Dunnellon Florida. Thank you for all the information you share with us!!
I grew store-bought garlic in containers (Tampa 9B) at the base of my tomatoes and other taller plants. The tops grew well, and were super delicious in Spring and early Summer. Alas, the plants melted with the summer heat, but I am trying again because garlic is a cool weather crop. I had best luck by starting the bulbs rooting before planting: 1) peel some of the outside white papery cover, leaving the clove intact, set in the top of a small glass/wide mouth bottle, with de-chlorinated water up to, just touching the bottom of the clove 3) place in indirect light location, keeping the water level at the base. 4) In 2-3 days or less, you will see roots growing out from the bottom 5) Split the largest cloves and plant them, no deeper than 2X height of clove, and keep soil moist until you see tops growing. Just eat the smaller cloves, they won't produce the best plants. 6) Gradually harden off the baby shoots before setting into sunlight. This method should give you plenty of garlic tops to use in cooking or pesto (tastes like garlic/chives). If you want bulbs, go lightly on the greens harvest, because leaves are needed to grow the bulb. The bulbs have trouble forming in Florida, and even if they do, you may only get ONE onion like bulb instead of cloves, unless the bulb was properly prepared by chilling. It will still taste like garlic, so win! Good luck. Garlic in the Florida garden is something of a Unicorn, but fun to try something new!
sweet potato, cherry tomato's and papaya have been really good for me. Blue kale will turn into a pest nightmare, but Lacinato kale and collards have been very healthy in 7 gallon pots of potting soil.
Black sapote is named terribly and is entirely unrelated to mamey sapote so I'd expect it's fruiting habits to be substantially different. Black sapote is closer related to persimmons
I wont ever plant luffa again they are invasive weed produce a ton but so much work for the sponge and the luffa young need to be used fast or they rot in the fridge and you need to pick them super young to be yummy tender - they are slimy like okra. Our family just didn’t enjoy them
Whoever is messaging you about Telegram is not me or the Wild Floridian account. It looks like there is a spambot. I will report to TH-cam. Thanks for letting me know.
Jackie, I want to thank you for pointing to the nhc.noaa.gov website. I wish I had known about it before Irma. It would have cut down on so much stress. It was still a cat 2 when the eye past over us, but the days leading up too our first storm was worse than the cat 2 because it was such an unknown for us. Our TV was never off. I was afraid I would miss something important. Like most mountain people, I check the weather forecast twice a day, morning and late evening (not that it helps much down here, dang Florida weather is unpredictable! LOL) the fact they color code the symbols means its takes less than a minute to see if anything troublesome is coming off the coast of Africa. Everyone living here or even visiting June-Dec. should know about it. Its a great weather site. 💗
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The garden had beans, daikon, cabbage survive 15 inches of rain. The 30+ winds for 20plus hours has all my trees with a little lean. Put strawberries into beds yesterday.
To find strawberry starts, I called a local nursery who I know does a strawberry u-pick every year and asked them if I could purchase some bare root starts from them so I could get them going at the same time. They were happy to help.
I planted 2 weeks ago. First time getting a garden going in 20 years.
How was last year's harvest? Did you replant this year?
I was done with September back in July.
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I'm on the other side of Tampa Bay from you, just North of Apollo Beach. I have all my garden in containers bc of where we live. I packed my whole garden in our enclosed utility trailer for 3 days for Ian (even the banana tree!) and I only lost 1 sugar beet seedling. My tomatoes, peppers, sweet potatoes, fruits & herbs all are still doing awesome. I will never garden in the ground again lol.
Smart! Smart! Smart!
I just woke up and I'm watching this as I start my day & make coffee! I'm ordering a few raised garden beds soon. I currently have over 20 container fruit trees, can't wait to start growing veggies too!
Good luck!!
Same, I can’t start until November
Sounds relaxing 😌 You are doing amazing in your garden 🪴 🥰
I love how you gesture while you talk because it puts your energy into every video. Happy Friday Morning!
Awwww! Thank you Teresa 🥰 You don't know how good that makes me feel. I actually was told at work when I do presentations I need to stop moving my hands. 😂😭 I never stopped.
Thank you for your update video. We're in SW Florida (Lehigh Acres) and got high winds plus some rain from Ian. A lot of our trees & plants have leaf damage (Avocado, Mango, Bananas, Papaya, etc.). Raking up the foliage debris is akin to raking confetti. I have six 46 gallon and four 30 gallon bags full.
We're thankful that the trees & plants are sending out new leaves. I have a banana rack that made it through Ian. Red potatoes are getting green tops & hope to plant some tomatoes this weekend. Have a good one!
Yes! It is like raking up confetti... good fertilizer when it breaks down. Wow that is a lot of bags!!! Yay for your banana that is happy news! Happy Gardening!
We live in Alva. Hope your damage wasn't to bad.
Earthbox in Ellenton has strawberry starts this week and two more varieties coming next week! I picked up 35 Brilliance strawberry starts yesterday. Festival and sensation arrive next week.
That is great to know! It is a bit of a drive but not undoable! Thank you 🥰
Still warm here in SW Florida ( Port Charlotte). Planted some peppers, tomatoes and lettuce in the ground.
Garden looks sad after loosing few bananas and most of papayas full of fruits. Hoping to be able to save my mango tree that is still on the ground.
In the meantime enjoying watching you while drinking my morning coffee.
Have a beautiful day everybody! 💚
Good morning! Love that you are making what you can of your garden and still planting your veggies 🥰 Happy gardening and happy weekend 😄
OK, I hope this isn't coming too late, but Elise Pickett of Urban Harvest was taking reservations for strawberry runners: Chandlers 6 for $6 on her website. The catch is you have to be able to pick up in person, as strawberry runners are live plants, in St Petersburg, FL. She also has a good assortment of seeds available for Florida fall gardening (seeds can be mailed to you). Probable pickup: weekend of Oct 22.
Jacqueline, thanks for another great video. Even though the weather has been so fantastic after Ian, I have been moping, and letting myself count all the stuff that is NOT going right. So, with your encouragement, I am restarting more vegetables, preparing to overwinter my poblano peppers, harvesting green onions, and shoring up and fertilizing the survivors. Time to learn to make Roselle jam!
This is great to know! I live close enough to get plants from Elise. I ordered some from Amazon and will see how those do too since everyone doesn’t live close enough for Elise’s pick up. Thank you so much m! 😄 Also I’m so happy to help you get motivated. Ian was tough emotionally for so many of us. It is ok to mourn the losses because you put hard work into those plants 🥰 But I’m glad you are ready to start new and take advantage of the fabulous weather
this why I love comments, you guys always drop those gems. This is helpful. I live in Jax, but I have family in Tampa. I may check and see if any are still avail. Thanks.
Over in Polk City we wound up with +10-ish" of rain.
So over September! One green pepper, waiting on my tomatoes to ripen.
Wow!!!!
Still pruning bushes and removing broken raised bed sections. I’ve planted more starts, and am rearranging things. It seems like a restart for the whole garden. We too have gotten almost no rain since the hurricane. Plants go from drowning to drought- crazy. Thanks as always for the inspiration!
I’m in Northwest Florida and we had a monsoon in the summer. It rained almost every day for three months, then in September in stopped and we haven’t had 1/8 inch of rain since then leaving everything bone dry. Temps are still in the 80s during the day but getting into the 50s at night.
I'm in the panhandle, 9A. Both Chandler and Sweet Charlie do well for me here. This year I ordered Sweet Charlie from Ison's and Chandler from Hoss Tools. I've purchased strawberries from Ison's in the past and have been very happy. I haven't bought strawberries from Hoss before, but all the seeds I've bought from them have done extremely well so I thought I'd give their strawberry plugs a try this year.
Parksdale Farmers market in Plant City usually will have starts in October/November time …. On their website you can request they email you when they get them in
I'm using strawberries as a green mulch for my food forest. It flooded to but, I have new growth. They survived 👏!!
So smart sonnya!
I am still cleaning up my garden almost there we got hit hard from the hurricane too, I truly needed this vid😎thanks for sharing your beautiful work
In 9B I lost everything during that heat blast. The rain actually helped the survivors grow…even my cow peas died in that heat wave.
Oh no! Hope your surviving plants are productive!
Yes…. No rain for two weeks since the hurricane….I’m in central Florida and was like “what the heck”….. good to know what crops to plant this fall…. I’m new to raised gardening so this was helpful. My summer crops were disappointing.
Come see come save in Bradenton and Parrish has strawberry starts usually.
Oooooh! Thank you! Bradenton is my old stomping ground. So I'll have to go check out.
Still without power here in St James City Florida, but doing well. My starts didn't make it, but I will restart soon. Just now have boil water only now fulltime. Was happy to see your video. We do have mobile hot spots. We are doing ok and we will rebuild.
I Ordered sweet Charley strawberry starts. I currently have carrots from seed growing and onion. Trying tomatoes again, this past summer it was a huge fail for me. I also have Lettuce growing in containers -kale, spinach, arugula & baby mix. Love your motivation, I’m going to trim back my pepper plants today. I’m in Tarpon Springs.
You are doing awesome Kim!!!!
The squirrels ate 27 of my Seminole pumpkins! I put cages over the pumpkins and those darn squirrels flipped the cages over to eat the pumpkins.
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Those rascals! 🐿 Did they eat the fruit or the leaves? Either way that is super frustrating!
I actually start everything in Nov including tomatoes, well I start those in September and plant out in November. Last year I did that and got a huge crop of tomatoes. I have 8 raised beds and follow the square foot garden method and must say it works out really good. I let things grow harvest and replace and I'll do that all the way until may/June. Then put the beds to rest. I've tried summer growing and got nothing in return. It's hard, not even my okra or cow peas did good.
We got ALL of the inches of rain in Sept!!
Yes ALLLLLL of them. 😂😭😂
Goodbye Sept. Hello Oct. look forward to clean up in the garden and trying some Florida cold weather crops. 😎
We had 16” of rain during Ian alone in Sarasota, and the ground was already saturated. We had another 6” this week in a single afternoon. 2022 has been the worst year so far for our little farm. Planted seeds this week between continued cleaning up.
I’ve had the worst success with pumpkins, which I love to eat. I refuse to give up though :)
16 inches!?! I believe it. Talking to my friend in Sarasota... I think y'all may have gotten a bit more rain... since you were closer in to the storm. Was is 6 inches?!? Thursday, my little and I were debating if it was going to be a sprinkle or a hard rain. He called it... hard rain. I was shocked how heavy it was. On pumpkins... I had to start them a couple of time and they were slow to go. But once they started going.... I love your spirit 🥰
You mentioned you were looking for strawberry plants for your garden. As you know, Plant City is the winter strawberry capital of the world. Parksdale market just announced, on Wednesday, they have bare root strawberry plants available. I just picked some up today for my garden. Just thought I’d share in case you’re willing to make the drive to pick some up.
That’s awesome to know! I might make the drive. But, others who live closer may also find this info useful! Thank you ☺️
Last weekend I put fresh soil in all my garden beds & planted a bunch of seeds & grabbed some starter plants at 2 local farmers markets👍🏼👍🏼I’m ready to go!
Nice! You are ready to go Danielle! 🙌
Great video! I dehydrated pumpkin and turned it into powder and add it to my to my soups sauce whatever I'm cooking.
North Tampa- having some very confused cold weather veggie volunteers pop up in my garden and then look miserable when things heat up again. 😵 I have arugula sprouting all over - hoping the weather turns cooler and they can fill out properly!
On the east coast it was in the 60s right after Ian but went back up to hot n humid since this past week.
It's been dry up here in N. Florida. We were on the edge of Ian and it pulled away any remaining moisture. It's also supposed to be in the upper 30's to low 40's next week which is so strange for this time of year
I saw some of the nature coast beaches... crazy how far back the water got. Heard it took a week for it to come back towards inland. And those temperatures are crazy for October.
I had 2 raised beds and 4 earth boxes... the hurricane knocked down several large pine trees and 1 fell right on my beds! Complete loss! I started roselle earlier in the year and they were completely blown down, but I propped them back up and they’re starting to bloom! My Earthboxes had tomatoes, peppers and green onions... the onions did ok, but the rest were stripped (hoping they’ll come back. I’m discouraged by the loss of the beds and don’t have the time or money to redo them right now :(. Port Charlotte area...
OH no Theresa 😞 That is horrible. The tomatoes and peppers I think will bounce back. Both can take pretty good prunes. You're doing the right thing and focusing on what you can do right now. Getting trees moved and cleaning up the garden is the priority.
Love your videos. Glad y’all faired well though the hurricane. I live in the Daytona Beach area and lost all my amaranth, squash and zucchini. Just planted red and yellow onion, romaine lettuce, green onion, iceberg lettuce, and cabbage to replace the loses. My mulberry tress were defoliated on one side and are producing new leaves and all those areas are producing new mulberries as well. Just like the video you did to make mulberries produce, but you don’t have to defoliate the entire tree if you don’t want to. Again, thanks for all the great info.
Yep it sucked rocks. I went to Kerby's and cheated. I bought seedlings of things that I lost due to Sept. and Hurricane. It was not cheap. My sweet potatoes didn't do well. My Okra finally decided to grow. My papaya has not started producing. Had to replant as my 3 Mature plants simply stopped production and basically died. Well all but 1. It fell over during a storm in Aug. However those were 5-7 year old plants.
Agree! I'm over September. I'm glad you are restarting. 🥰
Catching up on your vids. I received 18.53" just for the duration of the hurricane itself in West Volusia county.
I have most of what you talked about planted. Hopefully my fall garden will do better than my summer one did. Great videos keep them coming.
It's still been pretty warm in my part of SF. Lows are only dipping down into the mid to high 70s. We did not get as much rain this year. It seems like everyone north of us ended up with it all. I'm harvesting my sweet potatoes this week. I'm excited to see how the tubers did. I planted a new to me variety that's supposed to produce really well in the FL heat. I hope so. I filled up a whole Greenstalk container with them, so it's going to be such a let down if I didn't end up with a good harvest of sweet potatoes. Other than that, I'm planting warm weather crops this week. I still have peppers going also, but I'm also planting a few more varieties this week. I'm looking forward to having home-grown tomatoes again. I'm planting four different cherry tomatoes and four different slicer tomatoes this week.
One thing I highly recommend is Brazilian spinach! It has done amazing all summer long down here in SF. It was the main source of my dark leafy greens this summer. It's still going strong. I think it will grow all winter down here and doesn't die back. Not sure if it would die back or keep going in more northern parts of FL that actually get a frost and colder temps. Since it grows from cuttings, it was very easy to propagate more and would do well indoors with a colder climate. It also did much better than the longevity spinach that I bought at the same time.
Citrus Co/9a here and it's been so dry. Harvesting roselle and some peppers, lots of papaya still flowering and making fruit. I have strawberries going from bare root starts but nothing else new yet.
Same here... so dry... and then I got I don't know how many inches of rain on Thursday! I thought it was going to drizzle... boom! Easily a couple inches in an hour. Sounds like you have a bunch of great things going Tim for fall!
@@WildFloridian We haven't had any rain since Ian. Picked out a Thanksgiving turkey from a nearby farm & am going to make some kind of roselle chutney to go with it. Should be fun!
In Orlando so I can relate, everything looking beat up, also went into high gear about planting my fall/cool crops. Nature is bountiful so it will all be good!
I bought a strawberry plant last year at ACE, and they planted themselves on one of my beds, they keep going, they have been spreading for over a year now, my struggle is that some other animal always eat the fruit before I can, but I am still hopeful. 🙃
Try covering the plant with a wire basket or arch. I had the same problem last year and the baskets helped. You do need to remove the baskets in the morning or make sure the holes are large enough for pollinators to get to the flowers. Good luck this year!
69 inches of rain was the average in September for the Tampa area.
I just bought my seascapes strawberries on ebay. I got 25 starts for $26. They are doing great. I'm in 10a. Vero beach.
I just seen Strawberries last night at home depot in Charleston SC!
Nice!!!!
Dolins garden center has strawberry starters!
I would love to see Seminole pumpkins recipes,,, stuff besides pumpkin pies. And young loffa recipes
Shells farm supply in Tampa has strawberries but you have to buy 25 of 50
Great looking bananas and peppers Jacqueline!. I have about 16 papayas in my tree now,first harvest ever!. My tomatoes are looking sad but I have tons of hot peppers. Planting some fall crops now and I just bought a new raised bed. Cassava should be close to harvest now.
I feel like I am starting over with most of my garden this year, lost my banana plant that was just starting to fruit right before Hurricane Ian came through with the winds, and lot of other plants, I am greatful it wasn't worse. I threw a ton of seeds all around my garden and will be planting out some kale and kohlrabi soon, hope other Florida gardens are better than my garden 🌱🌱🌱💞💞💞
aphids keep going after my collards friggin aphids uuugh ive grown beets in a pot too just for the greens theres a place here that has beet greens salad that i love also if your on food stamps food stamps pay for seeds and food plants
Try planting milkweed near by. Aphids love milkweed A LOT. Swamp Milkweed and Butterflyweed would be the varieties that can handle the soil that is in a veggie garden. It doesn't hurt the milkweed to have aphids and once they start going crazy... small predatory wasps and ladybugs will move it.
@@WildFloridian thanks
Oh!! Your hair, the curl, the bounce! I love it like that. 😍
Hello, I planted cucumbers, corn, and pumpkin in the middle of august and everything is stunted I’m thinking it need maybe compost or manure idk
What do you think would be best to add to my garden?
Is the garden getting enough sun? The sun is weaker right now. So you want at least 4 hours of direct sun. It could be nutrition. You could add a fertilizer. Watch out if you haven't built up organic matter... liquid fertilizer will wash through. So you may want to do a mix of fast (liquid) and slow (compost).
Do you always do little tomato cages around your peppers for stability? In your hurricane updates when you were talking about “to stake or not to stake..” makes me think I shouldn’t support them, but I’ve also had pepper plants snap lots of times..🤔
I started this year with adding the small cages for peppers because the peppers were all over the ground and getting nibbled by millipedes the staking question was immediately after the hurricane, I’ve gone through and restated many plants since then.
Please keep your banana rack. We had to harvest a very small rack the days after the hurricane and today that rack ripened all together. They are on the smaller side, but still super flavorful. I know if people who harvest their bananas green to use them in place of green plantains.
I'm disappointed on all my Seminole pumpkins; most of them failed to sprout, and the ones that sprouted, Mr bunny ate them all 🐇. He's also been eating all my carrot tops and any other tender greens he can jump and eat off my raised beds 😭
Gotta get some Seminole pumpkin going! Daisy Goodman is selling seeds? Love that family. Huge fan. Love your channel too, girl. I'm in Lecanto in Citrus County. God bless. ❤️
your banana racks look awesome!!!! What variety are the larger banana plants? Are they the Grand Nan?
Yes they are!
I know this isnt a cooking channel... but can you do a video on what you cook with the pumpkins? I always want to grow pumpkin but we end up not knowing how to eat them.
You can use pumpkin like you would butternut squash. It's great cubed and roasted, either with EVOO, salt and pepper, or with brown sugar and cinnamon for something a little sweeter. It's also good baked as a savory side dish somewhat like a baked sweet potato or to make a sweet dessert like pumpkin pie. It also makes really good soup or puree. You can also pressure can cubes to puree later for soup or mashed pumpkin (like mashed sweet potatoes). You can add carrots, celery, onion, and granny smith apples, so when you open the jar all you have to do is blend it for soup. You can use water as the liquid when canning but I like to use chicken stock if I am going to make soup from it later. One thing I have not done with pumpkin but may try is chili. I make a black bean sweet potato chili that is really good and I think the pumpkin could stand in for the sweet potato.
@@DC-rd6oq thanks!
DC is totally correct! Ben looks up butternut squash recipes for ideas. Ben and I have debated back and forth about cooking videos. I know that we have differences of what we grow and how we use our veggies and fruits versus the north. So there may be some in the future. Just trying to figure out what that may look like.
@@WildFloridian I'd love some new butternut squash recipes! Or even just ideas. I ended up with 41 South Anna (the hybrid Waltham butternut and Seminole pumpkin). They are absolutely delicious. And the only reason they stopped at 41 was because I tore up the vines to make room for my fall garden.
Oh have you tried those green bananas cooked as a starch like potatoes? Yummy 😋
Hey should we only plant pumpkins in the summer? Which month have you had success? I am right across the bridge in Lutz.
Pumpkins should be planted spring and summer (depending on variety). I planted mine too early and I believe that caused them to stay small forrrrreeeeeveer. After I did my original plantings they just keep going… it is crazy!
What do you feed your banana plants throughout the year to make them so happy!?
Mulch and banana leaves and banana trunks ☺️
For strawberries I got some camarosa from Penseberryfarm, Im waiting for sweet sensation from gurney, whitwam is supposed to have some soon. I haven't had luck from Amazon in the past hopefully this year is better
Like I got them from Amazon but they didn't do well
I had cauliflower and cabbages up. Then I flooded with Ian. My plants survived and are green and still growing. Will they be ok? Or should I pull out and restart?
They will be okay!
@@shawnjames4826 thank you Shawn. My first fall garden. Just started gardening in March. Learning lots!!
Always, always *always* keep going until it's obvious survival just isn't feasible.
Leave them for sure! If they have healthy green growth. We are in the beginning of cold wether crop season, so they have plenty of season to bounce back and produce.
“Be where we are and move on”
That's right 🥰
How does the loss of sunlight hours (photosynthesis) effecting production this time of year?
When it comes to cold weather crops the shortening of sunshine hours and the reduction of UV index makes Florida more similar to northern states (New York, Michigan) in spring and early summer... so from that perspective it makes them more productive.
When do you recommend to plant garlic? Do you think it will do well in a container? I am in Dunnellon Florida. Thank you for all the information you share with us!!
I grew store-bought garlic in containers (Tampa 9B) at the base of my tomatoes and other taller plants. The tops grew well, and were super delicious in Spring and early Summer. Alas, the plants melted with the summer heat, but I am trying again because garlic is a cool weather crop.
I had best luck by starting the bulbs rooting before planting: 1) peel some of the outside white papery cover, leaving the clove intact, set in the top of a small glass/wide mouth bottle, with de-chlorinated water up to, just touching the bottom of the clove 3) place in indirect light location, keeping the water level at the base. 4) In 2-3 days or less, you will see roots growing out from the bottom 5) Split the largest cloves and plant them, no deeper than 2X height of clove, and keep soil moist until you see tops growing. Just eat the smaller cloves, they won't produce the best plants. 6) Gradually harden off the baby shoots before setting into sunlight.
This method should give you plenty of garlic tops to use in cooking or pesto (tastes like garlic/chives). If you want bulbs, go lightly on the greens harvest, because leaves are needed to grow the bulb. The bulbs have trouble forming in Florida, and even if they do, you may only get ONE onion like bulb instead of cloves, unless the bulb was properly prepared by chilling. It will still taste like garlic, so win!
Good luck. Garlic in the Florida garden is something of a Unicorn, but fun to try something new!
Love your videos. Do you just plant when you have time or do you plant by the farmers almanac. Your garden is always amazing.
You ain’t lying scared to plant seeds between the water and iguanas any ideas beside metal like substances around my seedlings to protect them
Got strawberries bare root on etsy! They all died.. drought in this panhandle sandbox 😔 we didn't get one drop of rain from Ian!
Hi! Is it possible to grow in ground? What veggies will do well in the sandy salty "soil" of Charlotte County?
sweet potato, cherry tomato's and papaya have been really good for me. Blue kale will turn into a pest nightmare, but Lacinato kale and collards have been very healthy in 7 gallon pots of potting soil.
Black sapote is named terribly and is entirely unrelated to mamey sapote so I'd expect it's fruiting habits to be substantially different. Black sapote is closer related to persimmons
OoOoO Thank you 🙏 ☺️😊
Do you have issues with invasive in your mulch from chip drop? Or termites?
when should we plant seminole pumkpins in central florida?
& oh my gosh…at my Lowes I was in search for a jalapeño & it was 1 plant for 9.99 😮ummm no
💀 9.99... That is too much. The return on investment... you may be able to break even but honestly... shaking my head
Ah I wish I related with the pest pressure thing aphids are just ravaging my peppers :(
Where do you get your black beans from I wanted to try growing them this year?
I believe she said, "the urban harvest" is where she got those seeds. They also has great info on TH-cam
@@sunnydayz4040 thank you
Have you are anyone grown a grand poinciana from seed? When should I transfer from pot to in ground?
I have not. Sorry Kimberly.
I wont ever plant luffa again they are invasive weed produce a ton but so much work for the sponge and the luffa young need to be used fast or they rot in the fridge and you need to pick them super young to be yummy tender - they are slimy like okra. Our family just didn’t enjoy them
I cant get my spinish seeds to srout either i have tried mulitple times
I lost all my 8 foot tall okra from the wind.
That's a bummer 😞
Who is the person asking me to text them on Telegram. Don't have that anymore. To many scammers using it.
Whoever is messaging you about Telegram is not me or the Wild Floridian account. It looks like there is a spambot. I will report to TH-cam. Thanks for letting me know.
You have to harvest luffa super young or it is disgusting
Jackie, I want to thank you for pointing to the nhc.noaa.gov website. I wish I had known about it before Irma. It would have cut down on so much stress. It was still a cat 2 when the eye past over us, but the days leading up too our first storm was worse than the cat 2 because it was such an unknown for us. Our TV was never off. I was afraid I would miss something important. Like most mountain people, I check the weather forecast twice a day, morning and late evening (not that it helps much down here, dang Florida weather is unpredictable! LOL) the fact they color code the symbols means its takes less than a minute to see if anything troublesome is coming off the coast of Africa. Everyone living here or even visiting June-Dec. should know about it. Its a great weather site. 💗