I am in Antigua. I live in the hottest, driest part of the island (desert like conditions) with alkaline soil and I am growing things here that most people thought were impossible. I love to experiment and try things I love to eat and have low to no chill hours requirements. I grow Triple Crown Blackberries, Biloxi Blueberries, a variety of Figs, Asian Pear, Florida Prince Peach, Plums, Apple, a variety of Dragonfruits, a variety of Grapes, Thompson seedless, Thomcord, several wine grape varieties, and several Muscadines. In addition, I have many tropical’s: a wide variety of bananas, sugar apples, soursop, starfruits, tamarind, papayas, jackfruits, passionfruits, pineapples, fejioa, guavas, a variety of tropical cherries, and several variety of citrus. I just bought some metal raised beds and currently setting them up. I have spent the last few years building the soil organically via chop & drop, compost, and manures. I mulch everything heavily.
Absolutely love your papaya tree in the background!! Thanks for sharing this great information, I moved to FL 5 months ago and find your channel very helpful as I am trying to "learn" to garden again 😀
my Poblano is almost 2 years old and is now over 6 ft tall. Started it hydroponically and transferred it to a grow bag this spring. It is still producing like crazy along with my Cubanelle pepper plants. Central FL zone 9b
Yes, you can move your tomatoes around if they're in pots! I'm in the Orlando area, and have a cherry tomato plant in a pot, a roma tomato plant in a pot, and a green pepper in a pot. They were out on the pool deck in full sun back in April, but now I have them on the deck up against the house under the roof overhang (this is the north side of the house), and they never get direct sunlight there, but good indirect sun. They are all 3 producing all summer!
Hello, I'm a new subscriber living in central Florida zone 9b and I am learning a lot from your channel, and I have been watching and enjoying several of your videos. You remind me very much of a lady I went to UCF with in the early 90's, but I know you're too young to be her. But she lived on the east coast near the Indian River, and I remember she liked gardening and was wanting to start an asparagus bed. I wonder if you are related? You look so much like her. Thanks for all your hard work and sharing what you know.
Hello, only recently found your channel. I too am in St Pete, however I’m down near the point, and am frequently watching patches of rain all around me, but not actually raining on my property, meaning my area is more drought prone than the rest of “Pinellas Island”. My zone is 10a.
Same thing happens here in Port Charlotte near Charlotte Harbor -- like we are in some kind of rain shadow. It got so dry here a few months ago that I ended up running up a three hudred dollar water bill trying to water our usually lush yard.
Malabar spinach gets black spot easily. Longevity spinach much hardier. What about pigeon peas? I started them this year and they are doing great. In Clearwater area. I have been growing cassava. It is great here all year and do fine in summer with no diseases or pests, and easy to dig up.
Thanks for mentioning me!! Update: I finally got Malabar spinach to grow, it loves my self watering grow boxes. I still can’t get them to grow in the ground, but they are going crazy in my boxes!! So no need to try anymore
As a gardener in coastal alabama zone nine b with So much humidity.My sister and I joke that we have a short growing season and a long slow dying season.
I know the Brazilian Spinach by the name Sissoo Spinach. I grow that and so many other tropical edible greens! Many can be made through cuttings very well. They make a wonderful summer edible landscape! Happy Gardening and thank you for your videos😄 From Florida Zone 10
I’m in the Tampa Bay area and planted jalapeño & cubanelle peppers in the same bed as my bell peppers and haven’t gotten a single pepper from either. The bell peppers are feeding me and several other families. They’re terrific.
I had Malabar spinach grow well in Chattanooga zone 7b. It’s doing even better in zone 9a. It can probably thrive in all of Florida in direct sun on the hottest most sun intense days.
Hello from Jacksonville! Another GREAT video! I just ordered your planner bundle set to use at home & with my students at school. Excited to use your informative planner this year! 😀😀
Our Malabar spinach love the fabric grow bags with no pest at all (5 gallons) unlike in the past (raise beds) with no success. Most of our vegetables and fruit trees are fruiting, producing a lot here in Melbourne 32935❤️🤗
I've been growing the Carolina wonder and Charleston belle both. They also have a Carolina cayenne, which produces large fruit all year long. The fruit gets smaller in the cooler lower light months and larger as it gets warmer again. The bell peppers do produce well, but I also found that the fruit is smaller. Some of them are even flat shaped, sort of like those flat peaches. They look odd. I cover them sometimes during the middle of the day with a white cloth, but they can handle the nematodes that seem to get almost everything else I plant.
Hello. Can you please do a video on container garden soil, solar ‘santinitizing” it to kill lingering bugs like aphids, ànd the best way to store the soil through summer. I’m down in Cape Coral and this past spring was my first Florida garden. I currently have Rosella, watermelon, sweet potato, guava, pineapple, and citrus growing. But I now know I can't work out in this heat! Too brutal! A set it and forget it garden video would be great too! If you've already covered these topics, can you share the links please. I haven't found them yet. TY!
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This is what I use: Logix 12535 Stackable Craft Storage Box with Handle, Locking Art Supply , Plastic Containers with Lids, Craft Organizer , Frost. It is like an ammo box but less expensive.
Puerto Rican black beans are found everywhere. The POLE variety are what you're talking about. The pole beans are available @ Jerra, Urb Harvest, Etsy. ♡
Perseverance indeed. My squash is a mess, ug, and my tomatoes are gone. Figs in containers St Pete, are producing in the first year, and my sugar baby watermelons are almost ready. Banana peppers are doing great, but poblanos aren't doing well. Keep going and keep growing strong. Love being a member.
Wait, wait, wait! Basil? What conditions? I have trouble with basil in the summer, thought everyone did. I try to eat it quick. I’m moving a plant around right now and fail to find an area it’s happy.
I feel like basil is very hit or miss. I’ve had multiple basil plants last through the summer without a hitch but then I’ve had some that get diseased and melt as soon as we have multiple days of heavy rainfall. My suggestion is to plant a lot in multiple places that way if one plant dies you still have back-up.
I found that growing the basil in the same space as my Everglades and San Marzano tomatoes produced bigger bushes. Also, be sure to use it during the season.
I really need help with my papayas! I had two that I bought at the end of August last year. The first died shortly after transplanting from being drowned by the rain! I managed to save the second by putting it back in a pot. It was looking very sad so this June I moved it back into the ground. It was looking great! The trunk was thickening and the branches were long, the leaves were dark green and very big. We get our first monsoon rain and it drowned! I'm so confused because this fruit is tropical and I live between the Everglades and Big Cypress. Help help help!
I am in pal Harbor. I remember a while ago you showed a blue thistle type plant. It was beautiful. I think you said it was one of your favorite plants. I am 80 and have no car so I can’t look around. Do you know where I could order seeds! How fast do these plants grow?
Howdy Patty! I believe the plant you’re referring to is marsh rattlesnake master. I don’t know of anywhere that you can get seeds for native plants officially other than the Florida wildflower cooperative online or local native nurseries or other native plant enthusiast.
You did! Welcome! You go to the membership tab or TH-cam will put the new videos in your home feed or you will see them on the video tab. Also, the link you used to get into the memberships is where you go from now on. www.youtube.com/@WildFloridian/membership
I don't have a way to get cattle panels and I don't have a farm supply near me that delivers for free and would cost more then it worth to have them delivered to my community garden. What else could I use that I can fit in a car.
@@GardeningwithPurpose329 I happened to see your question😊 I know Brazilian Spinach by the name Sissoo Spinach. I have never seen it in seed form (not saying it doesn't exist). I got my plant from Green Dreams Nursery, but I have seen it elsewhere too. You can take cuttings very easily from this plant. I hope this helps! Happy Gardening😄
Morning! I would like to join your member group, but it doesn’t appear as a choice on your YT about page for me. Is there another way to reach that page, or do I need to use a laptop computer? It’s probably retirement brain, but I have joined other channel memberships, so a bit confused…
@@WildFloridian I was able to do it on my laptop! For some reason the join button did not appear on mobile (phone or iPad) which was odd. I'm so excited to be in the WF community!
I am in Antigua. I live in the hottest, driest part of the island (desert like conditions) with alkaline soil and I am growing things here that most people thought were impossible. I love to experiment and try things I love to eat and have low to no chill hours requirements. I grow Triple Crown Blackberries, Biloxi Blueberries, a variety of Figs, Asian Pear, Florida Prince Peach, Plums, Apple, a variety of Dragonfruits, a variety of Grapes, Thompson seedless, Thomcord, several wine grape varieties, and several Muscadines. In addition, I have many tropical’s: a wide variety of bananas, sugar apples, soursop, starfruits, tamarind, papayas, jackfruits, passionfruits, pineapples, fejioa, guavas, a variety of tropical cherries, and several variety of citrus.
I just bought some metal raised beds and currently setting them up.
I have spent the last few years building the soil organically via chop & drop, compost, and manures. I mulch everything heavily.
That soil work you've done is key!
Absolutely love your papaya tree in the background!! Thanks for sharing this great information, I moved to FL 5 months ago and find your channel very helpful as I am trying to "learn" to garden again 😀
my Poblano is almost 2 years old and is now over 6 ft tall. Started it hydroponically and transferred it to a grow bag this spring. It is still producing like crazy along with my Cubanelle pepper plants. Central FL zone 9b
That’s amazing Kate! Two years! You are a pepper growing rockstar🤩
Yes, you can move your tomatoes around if they're in pots! I'm in the Orlando area, and have a cherry tomato plant in a pot, a roma tomato plant in a pot, and a green pepper in a pot. They were out on the pool deck in full sun back in April, but now I have them on the deck up against the house under the roof overhang (this is the north side of the house), and they never get direct sunlight there, but good indirect sun. They are all 3 producing all summer!
Malabar Spinish grows crazy in zone 11b Florida Keys.
Good to know Kim!
I grew cubanelle in zone 11 in a pot and they produces like crazy and or a very long time. Love them!
When I lived in Deerfield Beach (Broward County zone 10b) I grew turkey figs successfully. They would get rust, but always recovered
I have Neptune tomatoes which are still producing tomatoes in zone 10b, Fort Lauderdale,and they are loaded with flowers.
Wow! Wow! Wow! Tomatoes still producing in July in Fort Lauderdale! That’s amazing
Southern seed exchange is amazing. Im leaning towards buying all my seeds from them. They're focused on our region
I live in Boca. Figs grow great here.
Hello, I'm a new subscriber living in central Florida zone 9b and I am learning a lot from your channel, and I have been watching and enjoying several of your videos. You remind me very much of a lady I went to UCF with in the early 90's, but I know you're too young to be her. But she lived on the east coast near the Indian River, and I remember she liked gardening and was wanting to start an asparagus bed. I wonder if you are related? You look so much like her. Thanks for all your hard work and sharing what you know.
Oh that’s funny! We moved to Florida in 1990 and yes, she would be a bit older than I. No we aren’t related. My family comes from the Midwest.
Hello, only recently found your channel. I too am in St Pete, however I’m down near the point, and am frequently watching patches of rain all around me, but not actually raining on my property, meaning my area is more drought prone than the rest of “Pinellas Island”. My zone is 10a.
Same thing happens here in Port Charlotte near Charlotte Harbor -- like we are in some kind of rain shadow. It got so dry here a few months ago that I ended up running up a three hudred dollar water bill trying to water our usually lush yard.
Malabar grows great here in Gainesville, but put it in the “right” place because it reseeds a lot if you don’t get the berries off
I agree. I live in Antigua and it reseeds here like a weed.
Oh! That’s a good tip!
Malabar spinach gets black spot easily. Longevity spinach much hardier. What about pigeon peas? I started them this year and they are doing great. In Clearwater area. I have been growing cassava. It is great here all year and do fine in summer with no diseases or pests, and easy to dig up.
Thanks for mentioning me!! Update: I finally got Malabar spinach to grow, it loves my self watering grow boxes. I still can’t get them to grow in the ground, but they are going crazy in my boxes!! So no need to try anymore
As a gardener in coastal alabama zone nine b with So much humidity.My sister and I joke that we have a short growing season and a long slow dying season.
Same down here in Beaumont TX
I know the Brazilian Spinach by the name Sissoo Spinach. I grow that and so many other tropical edible greens! Many can be made through cuttings very well. They make a wonderful summer edible landscape! Happy Gardening and thank you for your videos😄 From Florida Zone 10
Oh! I have heard of sissoo spinach but hadn’t of Brazilian spinach. I learned something new today.
Aww, thanks for the shout-out!! Yea, we're getting ready to have our onion party started July 19th!! Get those short-day onion seeds ready!!!
You’re welcome! As Floridian TH-camrs, we got a stick together. I can’t wait to check out the onion party!
Go direct to Ferry Morris, lot more selection than at the BB stores.
I'm growing pinto beans. Just an experiment, but worth trying!
I love that you are experimenting! That’s how we learn and figure out what works for us. Best of luck on your experiment.
I put my seeds in old cd albums and recipe boxes.....the kind with index cards. The down sude to the album is that it makes the little book bulky.
I’m in the Tampa Bay area and planted jalapeño & cubanelle peppers in the same bed as my bell peppers and haven’t gotten a single pepper from either. The bell peppers are feeding me and several other families. They’re terrific.
I had Malabar spinach grow well in Chattanooga zone 7b. It’s doing even better in zone 9a. It can probably thrive in all of Florida in direct sun on the hottest most sun intense days.
Hello from Jacksonville! Another GREAT video! I just ordered your planner bundle set to use at home & with my students at school. Excited to use your informative planner this year! 😀😀
Our Malabar spinach love the fabric grow bags with no pest at all (5 gallons) unlike in the past (raise beds) with no success. Most of our vegetables and fruit trees are fruiting, producing a lot here in Melbourne 32935❤️🤗
I've been growing the Carolina wonder and Charleston belle both. They also have a Carolina cayenne, which produces large fruit all year long. The fruit gets smaller in the cooler lower light months and larger as it gets warmer again. The bell peppers do produce well, but I also found that the fruit is smaller. Some of them are even flat shaped, sort of like those flat peaches. They look odd. I cover them sometimes during the middle of the day with a white cloth, but they can handle the nematodes that seem to get almost everything else I plant.
I just planted a papaya in this 90 degree heat about 2 months ago. It is doing well in the sun. Just planted some cantaloupe. It is vining 😅😃
Hello. Can you please do a video on container garden soil, solar ‘santinitizing” it to kill lingering bugs like aphids, ànd the best way to store the soil through summer. I’m down in Cape Coral and this past spring was my first Florida garden. I currently have Rosella, watermelon, sweet potato, guava, pineapple, and citrus growing. But I now know I can't work out in this heat! Too brutal! A set it and forget it garden video would be great too! If you've already covered these topics, can you share the links please. I haven't found them yet. TY!
This is what I use: Logix 12535 Stackable Craft Storage Box with Handle, Locking Art Supply , Plastic Containers with Lids, Craft Organizer , Frost.
It is like an ammo box but less expensive.
Great minds think alike though your craft box is cuter than my ammo case. 😊 The plastic ammo boxes are comprable in price to the Logix.
Puerto Rican black beans are found everywhere. The POLE variety are what you're talking about. The pole beans are available @ Jerra, Urb Harvest, Etsy. ♡
Thank you, honey bee for clarifying! ☺️
Perseverance indeed. My squash is a mess, ug, and my tomatoes are gone. Figs in containers St Pete, are producing in the first year, and my sugar baby watermelons are almost ready. Banana peppers are doing great, but poblanos aren't doing well. Keep going and keep growing strong. Love being a member.
You got it! Thank you for being a member Delene!
Wow, so many good tips! Thanks!
Y'all are amazing!
Luv hearing from you and this was fun too!
Lake City 9a… my Everglades are still producing and my Lagos and Egyptian spinach are doing great🦋 just planted round 2 of Sunflowers.
Nice! Oh, I never thought of that, round two of sunflowers, I like that idea!
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Thanks Patricia!
Wait, wait, wait! Basil? What conditions? I have trouble with basil in the summer, thought everyone did. I try to eat it quick. I’m moving a plant around right now and fail to find an area it’s happy.
I feel like basil is very hit or miss. I’ve had multiple basil plants last through the summer without a hitch but then I’ve had some that get diseased and melt as soon as we have multiple days of heavy rainfall. My suggestion is to plant a lot in multiple places that way if one plant dies you still have back-up.
I found that growing the basil in the same space as my Everglades and San Marzano tomatoes produced bigger bushes. Also, be sure to use it during the season.
Had a friend she had figs trees in south Miami
Wow! That’s cool to know. Thanks for sharing Alex.
I have a great fig bush/tree. Homosassa.
I really need help with my papayas! I had two that I bought at the end of August last year. The first died shortly after transplanting from being drowned by the rain! I managed to save the second by putting it back in a pot. It was looking very sad so this June I moved it back into the ground. It was looking great! The trunk was thickening and the branches were long, the leaves were dark green and very big. We get our first monsoon rain and it drowned! I'm so confused because this fruit is tropical and I live between the Everglades and Big Cypress. Help help help!
I am in pal Harbor. I remember a while ago you showed a blue thistle type plant. It was beautiful. I think you said it was one of your favorite plants. I am 80 and have no car so I can’t look around.
Do you know where I could order seeds! How fast do these plants grow?
Howdy Patty! I believe the plant you’re referring to is marsh rattlesnake master. I don’t know of anywhere that you can get seeds for native plants officially other than the Florida wildflower cooperative online or local native nurseries or other native plant enthusiast.
I meant Palm Harbor 34684 can you give me that information? Thank you!
@@WildFloridian thank you!! I am disappointed but at least I know.
I’m not seeing the join button. I’m thinking I’ve already joined? But where do I find the member videos?
You did! Welcome! You go to the membership tab or TH-cam will put the new videos in your home feed or you will see them on the video tab. Also, the link you used to get into the memberships is where you go from now on. www.youtube.com/@WildFloridian/membership
I don't have a way to get cattle panels and I don't have a farm supply near me that delivers for free and would cost more then it worth to have them delivered to my community garden. What else could I use that I can fit in a car.
Hi, Does anyone knows where to get the seed for the Brazilian Spinach? I would like to try it in my zone 9b east central FL. Thank you in advance.
@@GardeningwithPurpose329 I happened to see your question😊 I know Brazilian Spinach by the name Sissoo Spinach. I have never seen it in seed form (not saying it doesn't exist). I got my plant from Green Dreams Nursery, but I have seen it elsewhere too. You can take cuttings very easily from this plant. I hope this helps! Happy Gardening😄
Ugh I think I was late on my peppers. I have tons of plants, very little fruit.
Hang in there, Chris! Pepper season is just a month away. So you may not be late, you’re just very early.
I have too many fire ants!😱
We All do 😅
Morning! I would like to join your member group, but it doesn’t appear as a choice on your YT about page for me. Is there another way to reach that page, or do I need to use a laptop computer? It’s probably retirement brain, but I have joined other channel memberships, so a bit confused…
Good Morning Robin! That would be amazing to have you in the membership! Try this link www.youtube.com/@WildFloridian/membership
@@WildFloridian I was able to do it on my laptop! For some reason the join button did not appear on mobile (phone or iPad) which was odd. I'm so excited to be in the WF community!
Garden is worse, the house is insured 😂
Silver linings…
Dwarf banana is now in the ground for 2 years, it is terrible dwarfed, not fruit.