You are doing a great job I'm so proud to see some of me in you I always love plants and animals ❤️ I love watching you grow in many ways you inspire me in my journey as well
That border is coming together so nicely. I hope you’re able to get the amount you need to finish. I love all the fruit trees that you have. It brings me back to Jamaica especially the Julie mango, soursop and plum.
I know food forest folks are promoting the Yellow Mexican Sunflower, but they’re extremely invasive. They’re listed as a category one invasive. The Orange Mexican Sunflower isn’t invasive - at least so far. Our native clump grasses (especially the giant Fakahachee Grass can be used for chop & drop. Also, Vitex trees are not invasive. They’re inexpensive if purchased young - grow very fast. They’d provide a little shade in the summer & bees love it. You have lots of open sand. You could scatter Partridge Pea & Native Red Salvia seeds around & see if they take. Sharon’s Florida is a good source for native wildflower seeds. Also, our Native Beach Sunflower would LOVE your yard.
Yeah I heard it was but I plan to mulch it. I couldn't get my hands on the orange flower one. I'll be buying the fakahachee grass for sure. The native nursery I went to in Lakeland was out at the time. I will definitely look into the other flowers that grow in sand. Thanks for all the awesome advice!!! Drop a link if you have a supplier!
@@champagnegardening5182 The Orange Mexican Sunflower is also called Tithonia) is grown from seed. Ace Hardware usually has the seeds. They grow very fast. If you prune them a couple of times as they’re growing they’ll get very bushy. The plant will eventually die back. So you want to grow some now, then grow some a month from now. Etc. Or whatever works in your yard. The native plant nursery in Lakeland is very good. And they always get Fakahatchee Grass in. There’s the dwarf & the giant. You can buy a gallon pot and then divide the plant at least once. If it’s a full pot, you’ll get 4 divisions. It grows fast, so dividing a new plant is fine. You won’t even know you did it in a few weeks. It will need deep watering to establish. Then back off & it can tolerate periods of drought. It might even help keep the wild Bermuda out if your garden if you plant it thick enough around the edges. It’s tough as nails once it’s happy. Native Red Sage: If you buy one plant you’ll get lots of babies from it dropping seeds. It stays around all year and blooms most of the year. Partridge Pea is in the pea family - so is a nitrogen fixer. It grows spring through winter then dies back. But it sends out lots of seeds, so you’ll have them again next year. A non-native plant that’s not invasive, bees love & is drought tolerant is Mystic Blue Spires Salvia. Most garden nurseries sell it. Another one is Vitex tree (or also comes in shrub form). I’d suggest the tree. Matlack Tree Farm has the Shoal Creek cultivate, it’s the prettiest if that matters to you ☺️ Matlack is near Green Isle Nursery, a large native plant nursery in Groveland, about 25 minutes from Lakeland. Personally, I’d kill the grass around your garden about 6 feet out. Personally, I find Ace brand weed and grass killer to be the best. Then plant Facahatche. Then divide it as soon as you can until you’ve created a barrier. I frankly don’t know if it will work, but you’ll have lots of chop & drop. lol
@@champagnegardening5182 See my other reply. As far as the Vitex Tree, it looses its leaves in the winter. So plant it so it helps shade your vegetables during summer & and provides sun during winter. In my experience, there’s few plants of any type that doesn’t like a little shade during the height of summer. And really, both the Mystic Blue Spires and Native Red Salvia can be used as a little shade for veggies as they also help bring the bees in. Ditto with using the grass as a shade plant.
Hey friend! The garden is coming along nicely. This has not been my best season for peppers. The heat has just been on another level this year. Plus it’s been so dry. Are you starting any seeds for the month of June?
Heyyyyy! Girl this heat came early and played no games! I'll still be planting pigeon peas and southern cowpeas. That's pretty much it until August. Hopefully I'll get some volunteers, I let everything go to seed
Awesome....amazing how well everything grew in a short period of time! Love to see more updates!
@@scottburgle2169 thank you! More videos are coming
You are doing a great job I'm so proud to see some of me in you I always love plants and animals ❤️ I love watching you grow in many ways you inspire me in my journey as well
@@cherylbrown9879 who knew that you would inspire me to grow
Everything is growing nicely from last year, great job 👍
Thank you. I'm just happy everything survived
That border is coming together so nicely. I hope you’re able to get the amount you need to finish. I love all the fruit trees that you have. It brings me back to Jamaica especially the Julie mango, soursop and plum.
Thank you. I can't wait til the trees get big. I hope they have more of this border. I love it
Florida soil😢. My goal tonplantbinground also. Tfs.
I know food forest folks are promoting the Yellow Mexican Sunflower, but they’re extremely invasive. They’re listed as a category one invasive.
The Orange Mexican Sunflower isn’t invasive - at least so far.
Our native clump grasses (especially the giant Fakahachee Grass can be used for chop & drop.
Also, Vitex trees are not invasive. They’re inexpensive if purchased young - grow very fast. They’d provide a little shade in the summer & bees love it.
You have lots of open sand. You could scatter Partridge Pea & Native Red Salvia seeds around & see if they take.
Sharon’s Florida is a good source for native wildflower seeds.
Also, our Native Beach Sunflower would LOVE your yard.
Yeah I heard it was but I plan to mulch it. I couldn't get my hands on the orange flower one. I'll be buying the fakahachee grass for sure. The native nursery I went to in Lakeland was out at the time. I will definitely look into the other flowers that grow in sand. Thanks for all the awesome advice!!! Drop a link if you have a supplier!
@@champagnegardening5182
The Orange Mexican Sunflower is also called Tithonia) is grown from seed. Ace Hardware usually has the seeds. They grow very fast. If you prune them a couple of times as they’re growing they’ll get very bushy.
The plant will eventually die back. So you want to grow some now, then grow some a month from now. Etc. Or whatever works in your yard.
The native plant nursery in Lakeland is very good. And they always get Fakahatchee Grass in. There’s the dwarf & the giant.
You can buy a gallon pot and then divide the plant at least once. If it’s a full pot, you’ll get 4 divisions. It grows fast, so dividing a new plant is fine. You won’t even know you did it in a few weeks. It will need deep watering to establish. Then back off & it can tolerate periods of drought. It might even help keep the wild Bermuda out if your garden if you plant it thick enough around the edges. It’s tough as nails once it’s happy.
Native Red Sage: If you buy one plant you’ll get lots of babies from it dropping seeds. It stays around all year and blooms most of the year.
Partridge Pea is in the pea family - so is a nitrogen fixer. It grows spring through winter then dies back. But it sends out lots of seeds, so you’ll have them again next year.
A non-native plant that’s not invasive, bees love & is drought tolerant is Mystic Blue Spires Salvia. Most garden nurseries sell it.
Another one is Vitex tree (or also comes in shrub form). I’d suggest the tree. Matlack Tree Farm has the Shoal Creek cultivate, it’s the prettiest if that matters to you ☺️
Matlack is near Green Isle Nursery, a large native plant nursery in Groveland, about 25 minutes from Lakeland.
Personally, I’d kill the grass around your garden about 6 feet out. Personally, I find Ace brand weed and grass killer to be the best. Then plant Facahatche. Then divide it as soon as you can until you’ve created a barrier. I frankly don’t know if it will work, but you’ll have lots of chop & drop. lol
@@champagnegardening5182
See my other reply.
As far as the Vitex Tree, it looses its leaves in the winter. So plant it so it helps shade your vegetables during summer & and provides sun during winter. In my experience, there’s few plants of any type that doesn’t like a little shade during the height of summer.
And really, both the Mystic Blue Spires and Native Red Salvia can be used as a little shade for veggies as they also help bring the bees in.
Ditto with using the grass as a shade plant.
Hey friend! The garden is coming along nicely. This has not been my best season for peppers. The heat has just been on another level this year. Plus it’s been so dry. Are you starting any seeds for the month of June?
Heyyyyy! Girl this heat came early and played no games! I'll still be planting pigeon peas and southern cowpeas. That's pretty much it until August. Hopefully I'll get some volunteers, I let everything go to seed