10 Tropical Vegetables That Grow Great in a Florida (Easy Garden Swaps)
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- Don't waste your time fighting for every little success in your garden when you can simply plant crops that grow well in Florida. These 10 tropical vegetables to grow will far outshine their traditional counterparts for more production with less effort. Every gardeners dream!
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00:00 Crops that grow well in Florida
00:40 Best Peppers Florida
01:40 Best Kale Florida
02:40 Best Tomatoes Florida
03:47 Radish for Summer
04:53 Cucumbers for Florida
06:20 Can you grow garlic in Florida
07:25 Squash for Florida
09:24 Can you grow spinach in Florida
10:24 Can you grow celery in Florida
12:04 Best Bean Florida
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I am in central Florida, every year I grow all kind of tomatoes, big, medium! I start my crop in December, by by April and May I am picking tomatoes, squash, peas, carrots, green beans, onions, potatoes, celery, drying my herbs, canning! By the rainy season I am done! That’s my time to do other projects!!! I grow Marconi peppers,very prolific, I have grown bell peppers from ALDI seeds! Peppers, potatoes they are very heavy feeders.
Summerfield here.
I can't grow much of that stuff in the spring as they're all eaten by moth caterpillars starting in late winter. Also during rain-free periods ( typically of late winter through spring) there's always an outbreak of spider mites which weaken the plants. But those moth caterpillars are the worst. They seem to mate and lay eggs most during rain-free periods. I refuse to ever again spend so much on sprays to kill the caterpillars. I used Bt last spring weekly in addition to picking the pests off by hand. I still couldn't keep the caterpillars from devouring my plants. Every single morning I would wake up and spot hundreds of more freshly laid moth eggs. I quickly ran out of Bt and patience. it was so much cheaper to just buy the produce. Green beans however were very easy and hardly bothered, as where bell peppers (which were never attacked by caterpillars. Celery was surprisingly easy too. My big pot filled with celery lived for nearly two years.
Me too I grow heirloom large varieties and start same time before even spring temps and I also grow bell peppers
Same
My recommendations: cassava, chaya, true yams, sweet potatoes, Everglades tomatoes, Seminole pumpkins, yard-long beans, okra, Okinawa spinach and longevity spinach. Those all do incredibly in Florida, and make gardening super easy. Also - you are right on seasoning peppers!
For sure! These are all annual veggie swaps. I have list for more of perennial food forest type gardens.
I could grow all of these. I am growing sweet potatoes, long beans, and okra. I actually also grow a sweet potato that is grown only for its leaves, and it is a spinach substitute. The other tomato I would recommend especially for the south is Creole from Louisiana. Chaya, I can get in trade and I don't have the space for pumpkins.
Other perennial crops for me would be eggplant, kale, and hot peppers. Sweet bell peppers are hard to grow but the bull horn types of sweet peppers are more prolific and tolerate heat and humidity much better. Kale is a biennial. It tastes sweeter in cooler weather, but it actually does well all year. It is better for smoothies in summer because it has a stronger flavor and is more bitter in summer. I did have gynuura, Okinawan and Malabar spinach, but they are slimy, and sweet potato leaves and NZ spinach is less so, so it is more palatbable. They all run wild, so I can only contain one, and I picked the sweet potato leaves.
Do you know of one source that sells the seeds for all of these plants, or does one have to buy from a dozen different obscure sources?
I grown vegetables in Central Texas with very similar challenges. I would add the following recommendations: for cucumbers, take a look at Armenian cucumbers. They are actually melons so they do well in the extreme heat and humidity and grow all summer when traditional cucumbers die or get bitter. They are also huge, like at least a foot before they get too big and seedy. For garlic, try Elephant garlic over winter. They are actually an onion, not true garlic, and don’t need the cold weather time. For squash, look at Cucurbita moschata varieties which do well in the heat and are extremely vine borer resistant. Examples would be butternut squash, Seminole and Cherokee pumpkins, and Tromboncino squash, which can be harvested either as summer or winter squash. Finally, on green beans if you can’t trellis but have room for bush beans, plant cowpeas in the summer. Most people harvest them when they dry out for the beans (like black eyed peas), but if you harvest them green and thin, they taste like green beans with a nutty flavor, like the foot long beans.
all great recs. suyo is another cuc that does pretty well. thanks for sharing!
Thank you for this. I'm in North Texas. Hopefully they work for me too :D
Did elephant garlic this year in Florida in addition to my normal garlic and it was ready a month earlier with my onions. Definitely will do it again.
Thanks!
Thank You 🙏 very much! If you would like to try green pigeons, I read they have 11 grams of protein! Most of my garden I start it in October!!
Great video
I was into gardening when vegetables become so expensive especially peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, long beans and squash! (I just throw the seeds in each raised beds we have attached made by hubby of 4 decades). We’re 60 years old and decided to retire after seeing our loved ones died similar to our ages so we like to enjoy life to the fullest in simplicity! Thanks again for sharing your videos, happy gardening everyone! ❤️🤗
Beautiful, im glad you getting some connection and time in the garden!
Great stuff lady!
SUCH a helpful video. Almost every plant you mentioned, I've tried and failed to grow or get a good harvest from. Shifting to these alternatives seems like working WITH the grain instead of against it. LOVE IT!
You can do it! These should make a big difference!
I don’t know where are you located, but if you are in the north, everyone starts crops out there after the frost, but if you are in the South you start around October!! Wishing you have the pleasure of having a great crops!
TY for this awesome video. It was very insightful. You mentioned celery sitting around too long and it goes bad. When my kids were young my second boy was tasked with cleaning up after a meal. He didn't know how to wrap up the lettuce or the celery. So he got paper towels and wrapped each and stuffed them in a plastic grocery bag. I didn't notice his "mistake" until a couple weeks later. When I finally found the lettuce it was in better shape than I expected because of his mistake. The paper towels act as a desiccant absorbing the moisture that causes premature rot. Since then we've been wrapping all our leafy vegatables they last 3-4 times longer.
Great idea😊
wow ur videos are so helpful and ACTUALLY geared towards florida heat gardening THANK YOU! subbed.
Another suggestion for celery is tropical celery. The stems are skinnier but the flavor is identical. It grows well down in the Caribbean. Same with Culantro which grows year around in my Florida garden. 😊
Is tropical celery the same as cutting celery?
It sounds like you're describing "Chinese celery". I grew it this year because it's supposed to grow so much better during very hot weather. Surprisingly it was short lived for me and rotted during the rainy season. The standard Utah tall celery that I grew the two prior years outperformed and grew right through the rainy hot summer right into the following summer when it finally bolted.
I have discovered with the years that there’s a winter season and a fall season in Florida. I put almost all my seeds in between the middle of October to begging of December. By April you are picking and canning and drying herbs we use during the rest of the year. March I can grow watermelon, super good for your potassium we need around 4,000 mg, I pick my sweet potatoes 🍠 and name make my pasteles with my cassava. Close and go on vaccinations to see my kids! I pray all of you can continue sharing and enjoying our gardens!
@@jolus6678 I looked it up apparently cutting celery or leaf celery is the same as kin tsai. It is the same species. This is a biennial for me. The leaves are usually used, the stems are more bitter. It has a stronger celery taste. The seeds are harvested and that is what is in the spice celery seed. It is heat tolerant but treat it like a carrot, it can stand some partial shade in summer in hot climates. It needs a well drained fine soil. I use it when I would use celery as part of a mirepoix, not good for celery sticks. They are hard to start from seeds, so I usually buy a start. I need a new one, mine is heading out the door.
@@CH-hm8ud Same here. I live in Hawaii. I have a 365 day growing year. However, there is a wet season and a dry season. Tropical plants no problem, but temperate plants are sensitive to heat and humidity.
Cool season crops most roots, cilantro, sweet peppers, leafy greens and buds (broccoli, Brussels sprouts) need to mature in temperatures under 75. Usually late October, can start some seeds in September. to about April.
Cultivars grown during the rainy season must have good disease tolerance.
Warm season crops eggplant, hot peppers can be started in around March. Only very heat tolerant cultivars of tomatoes, cucumbers, beans will tolerate temperatures above 85 degrees. Tomato plants can survive with enough water but will stop production in temperatures above 88 degrees. Summer squash can be grown but gourds are easier and much more productive. Tropical corn does better than temperate corn because of the short days. Some temperate crop surprisingly grow very well like kale (year round, but bitter in summer), asparagus (with enough water) Hot peppers, eggplant, and some herbs will live multiple years. Only southern varieties of day length dependent cultivars.
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BEST video yet! Just what I wanted to see. Info on plants I’ve never heard of, and want to try. I’m in Land o lakes Fl. I’m excited to try these. Keep these type videos coming. Thx again.
Awesome! Glad it was helpful!
I live in central / South Florida and I'm moving house soon and always wanted to grow some of my own food... One because once you get it started it can save you money in the long run and two having another hobby doesn't hurt... I'll probably start out with something that can grow on trellises first maybe out of a large pot or something.... Anyways, any recommendations for crops that are easy for a blind guy or mostly a blind guy to manage?
I grow cucumbers here in NE OK where it's routinely over 100 degrees and 70-80% humidity and have never once had squash vine borers on them as they do not have a large enough stem for the vine borer to borrow into.
also, my lacinto kale is 2 years old. this video is fulllll of gems!!!
I have some three years old. Shocking how long it is lasting
awesome vid, thx!
yes agreed!
I'm wanting my first FL garden after living in CA for most of my life. In CA, it was almost impossible to not have a good harvest of zucchini and tomatoes. But I will need to think of the Squirrels as well, didn't need to worry about them much in California as they were all ground squirrels, as opposed to tree squirrels. I like them so I don't want to relocate them.
I grow bell peppers no problem and large heirloom slicers in December it’s not a normal tomato time like the north but around November, and you can do it
Great video and very helpful, thanks. yes, hard to have a garden in Florida. Needs to be watered a lot, and fertilized.
harvested some delicious cucumbers and One day I went to pick again and 😮 eaten from green worms. 😢
I will try again this year and try out neem oil or dish soap
Red noodle beans taste like mushrooms when you cook them down. Love them too!
I definitely will have to try some of those alternatives so thanks for the video. Green beans or "bush" beans taste way better than long beans. We have not had a problem growing green beans in our Florida backyard in spring or fall. They don't mind the sandy soil. It's one of my top recommendations for new Florida gardeners.
I live in SE FL, and this is the best 'what to grow instead' video for subtropical climates that I've seen. Thanks for all of these ideas!
The biggest problem we have is ants, including fire ants! They are even in my green stalks. I’m hoping to start raised beds soon but I know they will find their way into them also. What can we do to prevent them and get rid of them once they are living in the raised beds or green stalks? Thank you so much! We live just south of St.Pete’s.
Fire ants are the only pest I use chemical bait for. Black bag of andro ant bait works amazing.
ooooo! i LOVE this!!! if only i’d seen this video $800 of bakers creek seeds ago 😭😭 keep up the great content!🎉
Nice, I started my garden in August 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa, lots of mistakes. I use square foot in the back yard and started a food forest in the front yard. I have noticed micro climates in different places so I still have to adjust for this still. Also learning about what goes in the food forest and what in the square foot parts. From grass to what I have now, from tree less to 3 small trees. This is a mediterranean climate, not a lot of Utube input.
I grow garlic in sw Fl. I just vernalize it for an extended time.
Swiss chard esp the fordhook kind is truly a prolific green. But I find celery grow fantastic for me here as well. Either from seed if you start it enough ahead of time or transplants. Harvest one stalk from each plant at a time and from about 10 plants I get a full bunch of celery every week from late nov/early dec until sometime in May usually. Just need a bit a of shade and lots of water/mulch.
Me too! I have good luck with celery central Fla.
@@CLacy great to know! I have some planted here in Pinellas for the first time. so far so good. using transplants currently.
Do you have a preferred vendor for buying seeds for Florida that you listed?
Thanks for the info.
Thanks for putting this together.
This was spectacular! Thank you!
Great information. Thank you
VERY helpful! Thanks so much
Thank you. 😊
thank you for your advice! I'm a novice gardener in florida and I've been struggling to find heat-tolerant plants for my limited space on my apartment patio. I'm growing bush beans now (it's mid-may and they're just flowering) and we'll see how long they survive LOL I will try long beans next time. Would love to see a video on things to grow with limited space, and what plants grow well together.
Trombocino makes a great Summer squash alternative. Pick it when green and cook like zucchini. Let it age on the vine until creamy tan color and save to eat as a Winter squash
ive grown it! i like tatume as well. but they still get worms and such. i find these other 2 to be even easier to grow!
Amazing and very helpful. You give me hope! Can't wait to document what I grow!
Loved it! Thank you! 💚🌼
So glad!
My first year growing stuff after moving to Cocoa Beach from Oregon. This video is helpful!
Carrots! What a disaster. Germinated quickly but never grew. I suspect too much heat. Cucumbers as you say, not good. They got to 1-inch tall then withered.
I bought coffee tree seedlings with me. I thought they’d thrive here. They produced lots of berries in Oregon but the plants gradually died here one after another. They’re usually grown at higher altitudes so I think it’s too hot here with no nightly cool down.
What is doing well is sweet potatoes and ginger.
Welcome to Florida! I live in Wellington, FL and the only things I grow in the summer are sweet potato, ginger, okra and some hot peppers. Grow things like carrots in the winter. Our growing season is the opposite of almost everyone else. Guide To Florida Fruit and Vegetable Gardening by Robert Bowden is a great book that will tell you the varieties of fruit and veg to plant and when to plant them in your zone.
Have a ton of resources and suggestions for things that thrive here. You’ll get the hang of it!
Loved this video! 🙏🏻
Glad you enjoyed it!
Super helpful! Some of these I know to be true all the rest I can’t wait to try!! Thank you ❤️
I feel soooo validated from this video. I’ll be making an order soon.
This is awesome. Thank u!
Glad you liked it!
Great video. So helpful & informative. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much!
You're welcome!
Excellent info!
Glad you think so!
Fantastic information!! I am so thankful I found your channel!
Glad it was helpful!
Loved this format. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you. Love the seed shop!
You bet. Glad you like it!
Oh, it's on now. You got me motivated to grow in Kissimmee 😊
Wonderful!
Excellent information.
Glad it was helpful!
I never would have thought swiss chard would be a substitute for celery, I will definitely have to try this. Just started growing long beans this year and have been very happy with the results. Your garden looks really good, working to make mine as productive but I put off improving the soil for so long I'm trying to make up for lost time. Florida sand is no joke.
it all starts with the soil, you'll get there!
I love this video 😊
I thought it was me! Lol
I've been trying to grow things in Fl for over 20 years, and after decades of research, I decided that I'm a terrible gardener.
My big question is; is there one source where I can get all these seeds ? Or will I have to get them from 10 different obscure sources. I hope someone answers because I would really live to try these plants.
Wow wish I would have found your channel earlier! Great information. Thanks :)
Fantastic information! Thank you so much! ❤
You are so welcome!
Thank you for these helpful ideas. I live in St. Augustine and I will remember the substitutions.
Great!
Thank you very much for sharing your experience.
My pleasure!
I have had very good success growing bell pepper in rolling raised beds on our back patio. I keep them in the shade and have had some actually produce for several years. Definitely the key is shade and not growing in the ground where nematodes can get them.
that's a great tip about the shade! thank you
Love all these tips.I too love cucumbers and will try the variety you mentioned in the video
Wonderful!
Great information
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for information ❤
My pleasure 😊
Great info. I learned many of these lessons the hard way.
Glad it was helpful!
I've had good luck with patty pan summer squash here.
Excellent video Elise, I have everything growing you mentioned except for the last two you mentioned, always enjoy watching you from my small backyard garden here in Pasco County 🌱🌱🌱
Wonderful! Something new to try! Good to hear from you : )
Thank you! Very helpful for the TX mid/upper coast as well.
Love that feedback on location. People are always asking for extended areas that my recs will work in but I hesitate unless I hear that someone has had success. Do you grow any of these varieties where you live?
@The Urban Harvest - Homegrown Education I am currently growing the python beans and hoping that they do well. All five that I planted have sprouted and I'm excited.
I've had good success with cherry and grape tomatoes but never slicers. At first I thought that the issue was gardener error, and to be sure some of it is, but this is a harsh climate and I'm slowly learning how to select wisely based on personal experience and resources such as this. I can't believe it took me so long to find this page!
I'm getting ready to place an order from you. It's nice to know that I will be getting seeds that can do well in this climate.
@@shanelowe3902 Glad we connected and happy gardening!
Good morning Elise. The garden is looking lovely. Thanks for sharing. Just like you, I'm looking forward to turning my yard into an urban garden. 🌼🌼🌻🌻🌹🌹
Hurrah!
I have my notebook and pen out and am ready to learn. Thank you again for these wonderful videos for us central Florida peeps. I also signed up for your newsletters and ordered seeds you mentioned in the video from your store. I hope you get the out of stock ones in soon so I can order them. Love from Volusia county!
We try our best to stay on top of inventory but it varies so much! Check back in 2 weeks and I should be restocked. Have a beautiful day!!
Love this video! I live in Puerto Rico and would love to have a video like this but more fine-tuned to the PR climate. I'm borrowing almost all these recommendations and will see how they perform in PR. Thank you so much!
send feedback. i imagine many will transfer great.
Greetings from sunny SW Florida. Thanks for this! Have you tried Malabar spinach?
I personally have, and it grows well here, but its muciligenous, (sp?) which I hate! But if you don't mind that, its an excellent crop for our climate.
Yes I have. I grow it every summer. But while it has spinach in the name and it is a leafy green I don't find it to be an actual substitute for true spinach. Its mucilaginous and cooks different. This chijimisai (or tatsoi) are almost identical subs.
Good tips
Great!
Great information. I'm still learning what works and doesn't work in my climate so this video was really helpful!
Great to hear!
Hi. Thnk u for this video. Can you make more of these videos. Thnk u again
I enjoy growing Chinese spinach (amaranth greens). I will need to post a video the next time I have them growing.
This was so interesting! I didn’t know about that type of radish. I was also really surprised about your struggle with cucumbers. I’ve never had a trouble with regular cucumbers but those Mexican cucumbers I’ve never been able to get to grow well. I think my microclimate might just be a little different where I am, which is fascinating 😀
Longevity Spinach and Sisso spinach does very well in zone 9B ..Im in central florida. ….and they love the shade. Btw. I still have producing collard greens 😀Thank you on info on garlic chives
I really enjoy your videos. Thank you so much for the information. I grew green yard long beans last year and loved them..even as a raw snack. I'm now growing the red variety. Tasty and beautiful! Also have enjoyed growing okra and roselle hibiscus.
Wonderful! Love roselle, its my thanksgiving cranberry sauce every year!
Thank you so much for this video (and all your others too)!! This is exactly what I have been looking for!! Gardening here is so different. The growing seasons are backwards plus the zone 10A heat and humidity preclude growing so many standard veggies. Hurricane Ian destroyed my backyard. I want to re-landscape with edibles, but it has been hard to find correct information for my zone. Your site is perfect!! Thank you!!!
Glad it was helpful! TONS of resources for doing that on this channel and my website. Have a florida food forest class coming up next month : )
Great video! I just started some Everglade tomatoes. I'm really looking forward to see how they do.
Hope you enjoy
Malabar spinach. Try it
This was a wonderful video! Especially for experienced gardeners that retire here. Knowing what plants can substitute for familier plants but grow better in this climate is a game changer. I have a lot of favorite recipes, I have to buy ingredients for because I no longer can grow those ingredients myself! Our food bill tripled the first year living here because I was used to growing so much more of our food. There only my husband & myself but still I was surprised at the cost. Summer squash is one of our favorites, it good to know there is an alternative that grows better here. I'm tired of working so much for such small yields. 👍
I’m here to help! You’ve got the skills already just need a little guidance on seasons and varieties. You’ll be back to normal here soon!
Me growing everything not to grow on this list every summer 😮😮 I’m in the Tampa area
Good alternative to beans or peas are the pigeon peas. I have some available if anyone is interested in buying seeds or plants let me know. Do great in Florida and warm tropical climates.
I am growing green beans (bush) in my garden and pots and they are do wonderfully! I have been picking beans everyday for almost 3 weeks. I also got 3 zucc plants growing and they just started producing for me. The zucc is very tricky indeed. I have to use copper spray very frequently. I am definitely going to try all of your suggestions however. Thanks for this! By the way, I also am growing grape tomatoes and so far they are doing good but are requiring a lot of care. We haven’t had much humidity yet which is why I think my garden is still doing well. Even have cucs for the first time that are growing. I think it’s the copper fungicide that is helping the most. I also have a lot of homemade compost in my beds if that makes a difference. I have tried cucs in pots and they did awful. Just like the last time I tried. I think I will only try growing them in my garden and not that many of them. I definitely want to try the one you mentioned. The cuc variety I have is space master. They are very small ones. I have another variety and it’s market something or other.
Great list. I'm in northern Florida and bell peppers do okay here I've even over winter a couple of plants in the ground no protection. But of course that depends on the winter season.
I grew rat tail radish in Indiana and they did great, I haven't tried them here yet.
They do great down here. North Fl can help, nematode pressure is a bit lighter up there. Give these seasoning peppers a try and I think youll find them even easier!
I'm in Naples Florida and it's hard to grow here before summer and now, you are spot on about the beans. My bushbeans struggled but produced and quickly started dying. My asparagus yard long beans have produced more and continue to produce. But you need a trellis. I love the purple flowers it makes also before the yard long beans. In Naples my biggest struggle this time of year is spider mites, aphids, and horned caterpillars. Plus diseases and other miscellaneous bugs. It's tough right now but doinable still. Shade cloths helps or areas that get shade parts of the day. Also I had a Carolina pepper that was struggling bad, I put it next to the yard long asparagus beans and now it's thriving and become very large and healthy. They are entangled in some areas but not in a bad way. Seems like those two hit it off and are both thriving off each other. Sorry for the rant! And great video and advice!!!
You should try green pigeons, it’s a big bush, gives you a lots beans, green or dry can safe a lots of people in case something happened! Dry ones have to be treated as the dry beans, but green ones are very soft. You can eat fresh or freeze them!
Do you have a video on? Was supposed to grow here in Florida in containers? I’m in Fort Myers and I can’t plant in the ground because I’m on the golf course can only plant in containers on the lanai. Thanks for your help.
I love your information. My current problem is where to buy these types of organic plants?
Try gypsy bells. They taste like bells but are very prolific. They produce from early summer until it freezes. They are thinner walled but I don’t care. I live in southeast Texas and I can’t grow bell peppers either!
For people who can pick up live plants in St Petersburg, Urban Harvest offers some seasoning peppers, like suave numex, cap 455, habanada, and aji sazonar for sale, so you can skip the slow germination and go straight to pepper production. Some of the other plants mentioned in the video as live plants are chijimisai, garlic chives, and Fordhook Swiss Chard. Elise also has varieties of sweet potato slips, which will provide a green vegetable option in the summer as well as tubers later. Happy growing!
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@@TheUrbanHarvest I live in SRQ, but my daughter lives in St. Pete. I may see if she can pick a few of these up for me. Do you have a stand somewhere, or how does one go about shopping for plants?
@@hfrench789 You can get seeds mailed to you or you can place an order for live plants for local pickup. All orders are placed through my website. theurbanharvest.com/
@@TheUrbanHarvest Did you discontinue the seeds club? I'd live to give that as a gift.
@@Anne--Marie Hi! I just closed it a minute ago for next quarters shipment. It was open in the month of may. If you email me directly today 6/1 at elise.pickett@theurbanharvest.com I can get you in.
Love this video! Lots of useful information, but I actually recognized all of the plants you recommended, so I feel like I have progressed since I first found your channel. Now to be able to consistently grow them....that is my next goal.
Would you mention some specific varieties of the seasoning peppers that will do well here in Florida. And, personally, garlic chives have been impossible to grow from seed; however the live plant I got from you IS growing like a weed in spite of regular trims, and has turned into a large clump that will need dividing soon. Thanks!
Yes you have!!! Aji dulce, suave numex, cap 455, etc. Anything that looks like a hot pepper basically. They will be smaller than a true bell.
The links to events and seed shop are broken in the description btw. Thanks for the awesome vid! I am new to gardening in south florida and really like your content for noobs.
If I wanted like a comprehensive guide for beginners that covers end to end like: building/filling a garden bed, first vegetables to start with, germination process, transplanting, watering, sun, etc. in an Explain Like I'm 5 fashion, where can I find that in your channel? Thanks again!
Bell peppers are among the easiest veg I grow here in Florida.
Luffa tastes just like asparagus to me!
nice! I do enjoy some asparagus (especially grilled)
Thank you for the info! I'm surprised about celery not doing well here since that was Sanford's big crop for a long time. (I don't try to grow it because I don't like it). But I think I may try the swiss chard version 🙂
It grows ok here but super short window. Chard is great for length of season!
Celery has indeed been a big crop in Florida. However, it thrived on reclaimed peat land in one specific area of the state, land which has degraded to the point that the farms probably can't compete with other sources. When you drain and expose peat soils to air, they break down very rapidly, the carbon being mostly lost as CO2. They also release nitrogen as they decay, and are very water-retentive, both ideal conditions for growing celery, but ultimately very destructive to the soils themselves.
Excellent video and very educational as it can be hard to find people that focus on the unique climate we have in SW Florida. I think some of these crops we will have to wait until fall to plant, but I believe the pepper, radish, and everglades tomatoes can be grown now. Are there others plants on this list that can handle the crazy hot summer months?
I have a what to plant when cheatsheet on my site broken down by zone to help guide you. You can plant garlic chives too. The fordhook is on the cusp. It can handle heat if given afternoon shade but it may be easier to wait to get it established easier.
@@TheUrbanHarvest Thank you
I like cucumbers more than tomatoes. I also agree the currant tomatoes grow wild and are very sweet. I have found a few varieties of tomatoes that will grow here, but the tradeoff for disease and heat tolerance is flavor, so they are more suitable for cooking. Cucumbers on the other hand I have had success with. Beit alpha, Soarer, Suyo, Diva, Summer Delight, Dasher II have good disease resistance when they are young and healthy and some of them do have good heat tolerance. I the heat tolerant varieties in summer. Chayote and Upo are more tolerant squashes in the tropics. I grow komatsuna and perpetual spinach as spinach substitutes. NZ hot weather spinach is also good. I don't like malabar, okinawan spinach, or Egyptian spinach because they are more slimy.
Longevity spinach it’s very healthy and grows fantastic here!
@@CH-hm8ud gynuura (longevity spinach) grows well here too. You have to be careful not to overcook it because it will get slimy too. It does have healthy benefits. It can be part of a healthy diet and helps reduce cholesterol, assuming you are eating a sensible diet.
I can your love for the soil, and your knowledge about plants. I absolutely love the soil, and vegetation, it’s like the most lovely 🥰 gift we could receive from the other side. Unfortunately, what I studied was biology with a minor in chemistry, lol 😂. I always dreamed to raise my children 👦 in a farm eating heathy, graceful and be professional. Having animals, fruit trees, be happy! Never had a farm! At least that was the life I order!! LOL 😂. Thank you very much for all of the knowledge you shared with all of us.
@@CH-hm8ud I have always loved to garden since I was 10 years old and it has been a lifetime passion. I too, took a different course in life, but I always came back to the garden. I learn a lot from my mistakes and I am still learning.
Thanks for the list, some I have grown, others I am excited to try. Are the peppers actually “seasoning peppers”, or are there other names? I am trying to locate some. Thank you!
Aji dulce, suave numex, habanida lots of variations. As long as it’s bred from a “hot” pepper they usually do pretty well here.
I grow plenty of large tomato varieties here in central Florida. You can put up with a little struggle, or you can get your tasteless slicers from the supermarket. Cherokee purple is my favorite so far. They'll go dormant in the summer heat and come back during the fall. If we have a mild winter, they'll come back the next spring. So, I made it to about 4 minutes and moved on.
Great video. Did you ever grow New Zealand spinach? I direct sowed a bunch of seeds to have a raised bed of just that plant a couple of weeks ago. Still waiting for them to come up but I understand they are slow to germinate. The benefit is a long harvest of maybe multiple seasons. My okra is killing it this year!
I am in SW Florida and I have tried numerous times with NZ Spinach. It just doesn't grow for me, reaches a few inches then dies.
I love your videos and follow what you say a will as ordered many seeds. I did order the rat tail radishes and they didn't do well. Any special tips? Like shade, or heat or water requirements other than the usual? Orlando area.
What happened in particular? They like garden soil over sandy so definitely a bed. Consistent water like many of our other veggie crops. Heading into summer some afternoon shade can be helpful. They can also be a bit slow to form pods so if it grew but didn't seem to flower could have just been a time element.
Where can I find seasoning peppers? Etsy didn’t have any seeds I could find.