☀️🌼👨🌾🌻🐝🌸🦋🫑🍅🥕🥬🐝 I’m back for another update of your beautiful garden. It’s amazing to see the changes in your plants over time. I look forward to watching your garden grow! I love watching my garden grow a little each day, that is my favorite part of gardening. It’s so fun to have the growth documented over the season to look back at and see progress. I love that about being a garden RUclipsr. Let’s learn & grow more together!
Thanks! Yep....So much to learn, but the challenges are fun. It seems like some racoon "friends" got past the chicken wire last night and had a lil sweet 'tator partee and I think the bunnies got some of our baby sunflowers but the Seminole pumpkin, Brazilian spinach, moringa, luffa, herbs and mulberry are off to the races. I usually have a tray or two of microgreens going out on the porch all year. This week's pea shoots are very sweet.
Sounds like your garden is coming along great! Yes I have had some bunnies and raccoons help themselves in my garden too. The bunnies usually like something that grows out in the grass in my yard better than my garden so they haven’t caused too many issues but raccoons have stolen like 90% of my strawberries in past years. This year I made hardware cloth cages for the strawberries and that has worked beautifully. Good luck on your gardening adventures! 🙂
who sells these seeds so we can plant them? Thank you for such great information, you give so much detail and cover so many bases, it is priceless and gives lots of people encouragement and confidence to grow a green thumb....lol!!!
Thank you for the kind comments. I’m glad you are finding the videos useful 🙂. Websites where you can order seeds for many of these heat tolerant plants are: 1) ECHO farm: www.echobooks.net/bookstore/seeds/ 2) Southern Exposure Seed Exchange: www.southernexposure.com/ 3) Baker Creek: www.rareseeds.com/ 4) Seed Savers Exchange: www.seedsavers.org/
Thank you so much for the list! I’m having a hard time with plant diseases and bugs this year. I’m in west central FL and the culprit currently is cucumber mosaic virus and pickle worms that have attacked my squash, zucchini and cucumbers😞 I’m trying to avoid toxic pesticides so I use a lot of natural remedies but I’m still struggling as I’m learning. Any recommendations/sites that have a large quantity of disease resistant seeds? Im having a hard time finding them in stock online. Any help is greatly appreciated!
You’re welcome! For disease resistant hybrids, I like Johnny’s Seeds and Fedco as online seed sources. And Tomato Growers Supply also has a big selection of disease resistant varieties - mostly tomatoes but some other types of vegetables as well.
It grows into a big bushy shrub and if it doesn't get killed by a freeze, it can eventually become the size of a very small tree. The first time I planted them I made the mistake of putting them in a raised bed and they pretty much took over. We didn't get a freeze for several years in a row and they got much bigger than I had expected.
Hi. My ideas would be big fences and big dogs - specifically livestock guardian dogs, like Great Pyrenees or Anatolian dogs. I have neither fences or dogs because I don’t own the property I live on and am not allowed, but I wish I could have dogs and big fences (and not chain link or anything else that’s easy to climb. Bobcats and coyotes climb very easily and fast). Fortunately we don’t have bears where I live but we do have coyotes, bobcats, foxes and even some large alligators. They don’t bother my garden and they usually stay away from people but they have eaten 3 of our outdoor cats in past years. Now we always make sure to keep our pets locked inside at night and also don’t leave any food or garbage outside that would attract them. I don’t know much about bears but apparently livestock guardian dogs will chase them off. I read a couple of interesting stories about them here: www.great-pyrenees-club-of-southern-ontario.com/livestock-guardian-dogs.html and: www.great-pyrenees-club-of-southern-ontario.com/Great-Pyr-and-Bear.html
@@floridavegetablegardening thank you so much for taking the time to answer, and thank you for your help and suggestions! Love your show and all your great content!
Pine straw (needles) make a good mulch. You can also buy pine bark mulch. Melaleuca mulch is another mulch you can buy. It usually is sold under the names Florimulch or Enviromulch. A lot of people just use leaves for mulch, which is what I mainly use. Some people just use the leaves that they (and/or their neighbors) rake up from the yard. In my yard I grow "chop and drop" trees like Mexican Sunflower and Moringa that I can use for mulch.
A tropical pumpkin. Cuban pumpkin/Cuban squash is a common type of calabaza. Regular jack-o-lantern types of pumpkins are started in July (August in South Florida).
Hi. Spinach is a cool season vegetable that we plant in the fall when the weather gets cooler. October would be a good time to start planting spinach. You can continue planting spinaches throughout the fall and winter.
Very thorough without being too long. Thank you!
Thanks! And You’re Welcome 😊
Very informative. Thank you kindly for sharing your knowledge.
You’re welcome! 🙂
Thank you. From the Florida panhandle ☀️🌸
You’re welcome! 😊
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I’m back for another update of your beautiful garden. It’s amazing to see the changes in your plants over time. I look forward to watching your garden grow! I love watching my garden grow a little each day, that is my favorite part of gardening. It’s so fun to have the growth documented over the season to look back at and see progress. I love that about being a garden RUclipsr. Let’s learn & grow more together!
Thank you so much 😊
thank you from Palm Bay Florida East Coast. great info.
You’re welcome! 😊
Thanks! Yep....So much to learn, but the challenges are fun. It seems like some racoon "friends" got past the chicken wire last night and had a lil sweet 'tator partee and I think the bunnies got some of our baby sunflowers but the Seminole pumpkin, Brazilian spinach, moringa, luffa, herbs and mulberry are off to the races. I usually have a tray or two of microgreens going out on the porch all year. This week's pea shoots are very sweet.
Sounds like your garden is coming along great! Yes I have had some bunnies and raccoons help themselves in my garden too. The bunnies usually like something that grows out in the grass in my yard better than my garden so they haven’t caused too many issues but raccoons have stolen like 90% of my strawberries in past years. This year I made hardware cloth cages for the strawberries and that has worked beautifully. Good luck on your gardening adventures! 🙂
Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝
You’re welcome! 😊
thanks a lot for this list!
You're Welcome! :)
who sells these seeds so we can plant them? Thank you for such great information, you give so much detail and cover so many bases, it is priceless and gives lots of people encouragement and confidence to grow a green thumb....lol!!!
Thank you for the kind comments. I’m glad you are finding the videos useful 🙂. Websites where you can order seeds for many of these heat tolerant plants are:
1) ECHO farm: www.echobooks.net/bookstore/seeds/
2) Southern Exposure Seed Exchange: www.southernexposure.com/
3) Baker Creek: www.rareseeds.com/
4) Seed Savers Exchange: www.seedsavers.org/
@@floridavegetablegardening Thank you so much for all your great, helpful info to help us follow your steps and helping us succeed, you are great! 👍👍👍
@@JLMISR you’re welcome! 🙂
Thank you so much for the list! I’m having a hard time with plant diseases and bugs this year. I’m in west central FL and the culprit currently is cucumber mosaic virus and pickle worms that have attacked my squash, zucchini and cucumbers😞 I’m trying to avoid toxic pesticides so I use a lot of natural remedies but I’m still struggling as I’m learning. Any recommendations/sites that have a large quantity of disease resistant seeds? Im having a hard time finding them in stock online. Any help is greatly appreciated!
You’re welcome! For disease resistant hybrids, I like Johnny’s Seeds and Fedco as online seed sources. And Tomato Growers Supply also has a big selection of disease resistant varieties - mostly tomatoes but some other types of vegetables as well.
@@floridavegetablegardening Perfect..I’ll take a look! Thank you!!
@@tiannarobertson9927 you’re welcome!
That’s for info
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What is pigeon pea like? Growth habit?
It grows into a big bushy shrub and if it doesn't get killed by a freeze, it can eventually become the size of a very small tree. The first time I planted them I made the mistake of putting them in a raised bed and they pretty much took over. We didn't get a freeze for several years in a row and they got much bigger than I had expected.
Question, what ideas do you give for people who have wildlife entering their yards, like beat, bobcats etc? thank you!
Hi. My ideas would be big fences and big dogs - specifically livestock guardian dogs, like Great Pyrenees or Anatolian dogs. I have neither fences or dogs because I don’t own the property I live on and am not allowed, but I wish I could have dogs and big fences (and not chain link or anything else that’s easy to climb. Bobcats and coyotes climb very easily and fast). Fortunately we don’t have bears where I live but we do have coyotes, bobcats, foxes and even some large alligators. They don’t bother my garden and they usually stay away from people but they have eaten 3 of our outdoor cats in past years. Now we always make sure to keep our pets locked inside at night and also don’t leave any food or garbage outside that would attract them. I don’t know much about bears but apparently livestock guardian dogs will chase them off. I read a couple of interesting stories about them here:
www.great-pyrenees-club-of-southern-ontario.com/livestock-guardian-dogs.html
and:
www.great-pyrenees-club-of-southern-ontario.com/Great-Pyr-and-Bear.html
@@floridavegetablegardening thank you so much for taking the time to answer, and thank you for your help and suggestions! Love your show and all your great content!
@@JLMISR you’re very welcome! 🙂
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What mulch should I buy to keep soil from drying out
Pine straw (needles) make a good mulch. You can also buy pine bark mulch. Melaleuca mulch is another mulch you can buy. It usually is sold under the names Florimulch or Enviromulch. A lot of people just use leaves for mulch, which is what I mainly use. Some people just use the leaves that they (and/or their neighbors) rake up from the yard. In my yard I grow "chop and drop" trees like Mexican Sunflower and Moringa that I can use for mulch.
By calabaza do you mean pumpkin?
A tropical pumpkin. Cuban pumpkin/Cuban squash is a common type of calabaza. Regular jack-o-lantern types of pumpkins are started in July (August in South Florida).
@@floridavegetablegardening thank you!
When can I plant giant noble spinach
Hi. Spinach is a cool season vegetable that we plant in the fall when the weather gets cooler. October would be a good time to start planting spinach. You can continue planting spinaches throughout the fall and winter.