I agree about the Tatsoi being just like spinach. It's great for taste and texture. I grew it last year and I'm growing it again this year for a spinach substitute.
I have longevity spinach and Okinawa spinach in window box type planters overflowing on the ground. If you want cuttings, I’ll gladly give them to you.
South Florida here. Black Krim did decent last year. But I made a donation to the UF Klee Tomato Lab and they sent me a bunch of their seeds to try as part of their citizen program. So I have 9 tomato varieties and 5 pepper (hot, chili and bell) varieties in the garage. Still experimenting. Can't go wrong with Floridade tomatoes though.
I store my seeds in the freezer, double bagged to keep out moisture. I started doing this after I cleaned out my great grandmothers freezer. I rinsed in out with everything from the running onto the ground just off my porch. At least 200 plants sprouted from the seeds that had fallen into the bottom and I had peas beans and tomato’s growing around my lavender border. lol😂
Last winter was my best lettuce year. I can't even take credit because I saved the bottoms of a few fancy organic mix containers I bought on clearance for my hens. I had grown lettuce, onion... Saved from bottoms Before just as an experiment but usually just start seed. Last year Romain, purple and red from those cut bottoms grew like champs and made big heads again and I got a second cut. Then I let them go to seed and saved that in hopes it climatized. I will see how that went soon. All my many green onions are all from saved bottoms. Friends save produce cuts and going out soon for my hens so I regrow the onions they buy and often gift them with a pot of their own food back.
I have a greenstalk for strawberries and herbs. Growing the rest mostly in grow bags due to all the rain here in 10a. Thank you so much for all your advice. Wouldn't be attempting this without you and a couple other Florida gardeners. Just harvested my first dragonfruit. It was perfect!
I took seeds from my best strawberries and dried them out on a plate, then bagged them and refrigerated them for 4 weeks. I sprinkled them on some moist seed starting mix and used a spray bottle every day to keep the seeds moist, didn't cover the seeds at all. I now have around 30 little strawberry plants under the grow light with other seeds germinating late. Now my problem is when should I start giving them a little organic fertilizer ? My experiment worked but knowing the seed starting mix is sterile I know they will need fertilizer because those tiny seeds are going to run out of steam for those plants. Zone 9A here
Wow that's impressive! I just planted some bare root. For babies I like a seaweed fertilizer called Sea magic. Make it half strength for baby root growth
Swiss Chard was/still is a favorite when my older kids were younger. The two of them could split the bowl and we would even have it twice a week. After washing good I'd cut the stems out and slice thin like celery. Sauté those in a Tbl of butter with diced onion in a large skillet with lid. While that is cooking, stack up the leaves and roll tight. Slice across the roll very thin slices, this is called chiffonade. Set aside until stems and onions are tender. When they are tender, spread the thinly sliced leaves over top and using tongs mix the stem with the leaves. Sprinkle with kosher or pink salt lightly, put lid on, turn burner off and let the leaves steam wilt, this keeps in more nutrients. Finish preparing the rest of your meal, serve in a bowl when all is ready. I will some times start with bacon or add 1 Tbl of red wine vinegar to change it up. There is never any leftovers. 😊
Great sharing all these tips. 😊 4 of the 6 varieties of beans I planted are up 4" already. What a surprise! Also, my herbs do best between the houses on the west side. Some sun but not too much I'm Zone 9B.
I’ve just gotten my purple Cherokee tomatoes in the beds and my Albion everbearing strawberries in their bed. Just put up some burlap trying to keep the tomatoes shaded just a little longer until the sun calms down a bit more
I always struggle with strawberries, I tried planing seeds all summer long from store bought strawberries but no luck, no sure if it was because I planted them in the summer months however the containers were always kept in my shaded patio. I'm in SW FL.
I need advice for pepper plants please! Does anyone prune back in May and/or in September? Or is it better to just start new plants in September? I started gardening in zone 10b this past march and I know pepper plants should be able to live about 4 years. But the summer heat and bugs have ravaged the leaves on all of my pepper plants, no matter what type. TYIA!
Watching for replies 👀 I have 'perrenial' peppers that are currently 1.5 yrs old but haven't produced crazy amounts. They clearly want to live! I just want to help them be their best self!
Noseeums ate me alive this week while on vacation in Captiva 😭 I feel like my legs and arms are on fire literally. We used a spray that’s supposed to keep them away but didn’t. I don’t know how you do this but goodness gracious 🤦♀️ I really enjoy gardening and this year has been so fun
I'm thinking of only growing winter squash there's so many other veggies that need the space squash take. Green leafy veggies and tomatoes are our priority. Up til now I've only grown them hydroponically year round...
Sweet potato leaves are very nutritious and even tomato leaves are being used by chefs in different ways, both cooked and raw. I’ve tried it and they add a different yet very tasty note to soups, sauces and sautées.I have been eating the leaves from my okra plants and they are delicious in salads. I haven’t tried cooking them yet because I never have enough left over even with 40 plants. I usually grab okra or leaves to keep me going while I’m out in the yard working. lol. And, of course, you already know that most of our flowers for pollinators or to deter pests are edible and/or medicinal….even many of the weeds. Have to research first.
Been trying soft neck garlic past 2 years. Got from Keene Garlic. Year 1 my floridade tomatoes smothered the garlic. Got zero. Did it last year and got a few bulbs. Was happy but won't do again. I'm in So Flo and it's just not right for it. Maybe at my central florida farm in a year or two when it's fully operational.
My big "secret" is that, if I get to do this, I want to experiment with Creole garlics, and when I find what is good, I will become the "Creole (garlic) queen" at the farmer's market. But "Cuban purple:" surely, some Floridians have tried the Creole garlics; why haven't we heard about their successes and failures? Cuban Purple would be a Caribbean adapted garlic, if it has ever grown in Cuba at all. But unlike Florida, they have mountains down there, hence cooler. Same with "aji morada" from Baja. I also want to experiment with vernalizing garlics, and even wonder if it would be best to vernalize the Creoles, a little, too? I hope to try some of the onions at Hoss seeds, and I want to try the equatorial African classic, "Violet di Galmi", a short day, if ever I've heard of one, and I have read that the original Bahamian onions were from the Canary Islands, so they're short day onions, too, if you can find those strains. There are some short day red onions (on Hoss, I think) which are really good, and long keepers, too. I want to find some kind of perennial onion, a substitute for "potato onions", which don't bulb in the Florida peninsula or South Texas. But the once-head of gardening at UF ("IFAS") used to have a paper about perennial onions, which made it sound like there were Florida adapted perennial onions a lot like the potato onions. Someone at Hoss seeds said that they were searching for some old perennials from their childhood, and an Alabama lady had some at Baker Creek, which sold out really fast. Neither of those were necessarily adapted for the peninsula of Florida, but I thought I could give them a try. Egyptian walking onions are supposedly okay. And I was going to give Louisiana shallots a try, but someone said that ALL shallots were likely to grow well in Florida! Imagine that, if it's true! And of course, I'd want to grow Grano/Granex/"Vidalia" onions in season. I wish SESE, great as they are, would take Florida onions a little more seriously! That's a whole lot of experimentation, and I would just be starting for the first garden in a long time. I imagine the main garden would be a very modest attempt, but I'd still like to run a few experiments so I can make that kind of progress sooner, rather than later.
I looked it up and Burpee still has Cuban Purple, at a crazy price, but they are seed garlics, to begin growing these. Next year, you'll have more. They begin shipping for zone 9 on October 7. Transplant baby plants January 18-February 29. All sold out at Filarree and Great Garlic Gardens >Allicin Farms, but this is from what they said at Allicin Farms: "Taste = Wow! Cuban Purple is a very rich, earthy garlicky flavor with very little pungency (hotness when raw) and that makes it an excellent garlic for raw eating and in pesto, salsa, etc. A hardy garlic that is great for growing in Florida and all along the Gulf Coast - California, too. "The size all Creole garlics grow to depends on where they grow as they require as much direct overhead sunlight as they can get. Most of them have grown in the Caribbean area the last 500 years and they get real big when grown down South but rather small when grown in the north because they cannot get the intense sunlight they need."
I grew Komatsuna which is a Japanese spinach with great success last year just kept coming back after I cut it … ❤️thanks for your videos I haven’t had much luck With tomatoes though
I have sweet potatoes growing like crazy in my raised planter. However, I noticed there were a bunch of white bugs living (and apparently nesting!) under the leaves. Do I just dump a bunch of Neem oil on them, or is there something else I should be doing about this?
So how do you control torpedo grass in your raised beds if you have any? They are killing me this year- hey grow through black plastic and we are digging the entire bed to remove but I have 16 massive beds!
I failed at my Seminole pumpkins 😢 beautiful leaves and tones of vines but no fruit😢😢 I’m sure I need more pollinators but not sure what else. Can I plant again now?
This is pure gold, everybody's comments! Thanks for the shoutout, Jackie, and stay safe in the storm!
Omgoodness...I hope you are ok after the storm...
We in the coastal areas of Pasco were devastated...
Take care 😮
I really liked this style of video, sharing local tips. It was very helpful!!
I agree about the Tatsoi being just like spinach. It's great for taste and texture. I grew it last year and I'm growing it again this year for a spinach substitute.
Will it make a spinach dip as good as real spinach?
@@Maria-ql3fc It would, It's delicious!
I'm going to Grow it in spring \summer as I understand it tolerates the heat.
If you go by the sun angel & hrs of daylight, then September is the start of fall, but when it's still 90 every day, I'm calling it summer . 😊
@@williamadkins2170 yeah it still feels like summer right now
I love fig leaves for tea to me mine smells and taste like a light peach so delicious😊
Love hearing all the tips & tricks from my Florida neighbors. Lots of info here. Thanks, y'all, for sharing.
I have longevity spinach and Okinawa spinach in window box type planters overflowing on the ground. If you want cuttings, I’ll gladly give them to you.
South Florida here. Black Krim did decent last year. But I made a donation to the UF Klee Tomato Lab and they sent me a bunch of their seeds to try as part of their citizen program. So I have 9 tomato varieties and 5 pepper (hot, chili and bell) varieties in the garage. Still experimenting. Can't go wrong with Floridade tomatoes though.
I store my seeds in the freezer, double bagged to keep out moisture. I started doing this after I cleaned out my great grandmothers freezer. I rinsed in out with everything from the running onto the ground just off my porch. At least 200 plants sprouted from the seeds that had fallen into the bottom and I had peas beans and tomato’s growing around my lavender border. lol😂
Imagine my surprise when you mentioned me. I was just jumping on to catch up.
Who loves ya baby? 😍
Last winter was my best lettuce year. I can't even take credit because I saved the bottoms of a few fancy organic mix containers I bought on clearance for my hens. I had grown lettuce, onion... Saved from bottoms Before just as an experiment but usually just start seed. Last year Romain, purple and red from those cut bottoms grew like champs and made big heads again and I got a second cut. Then I let them go to seed and saved that in hopes it climatized. I will see how that went soon. All my many green onions are all from saved bottoms. Friends save produce cuts and going out soon for my hens so I regrow the onions they buy and often gift them with a pot of their own food back.
Yes, I grow swiss chard in the fall here in NC FL. Grows easily for me.
I'm in Lake City what's your favorite mind of lettuce to grow?
@@juliebinetti15 buttercrunch and romaine.
I grow swiss chard every year here in South Florida (10A) It is one of my favorites.
I really like san marzano tomatoes zone 10a
I have a greenstalk for strawberries and herbs. Growing the rest mostly in grow bags due to all the rain here in 10a.
Thank you so much for all your advice. Wouldn't be attempting this without you and a couple other Florida gardeners. Just harvested my first dragonfruit. It was perfect!
I picked tomatoes and peppers because of their prices and taste better from the garden.
It is the best time to grow in Florida ❤
I hope you guys are okay up there. The storm is pretty much past us here in Ruskin.
I took seeds from my best strawberries and dried them out on a plate, then bagged them and refrigerated them for 4 weeks. I sprinkled them on some moist seed starting mix and used a spray bottle every day to keep the seeds moist, didn't cover the seeds at all. I now have around 30 little strawberry plants under the grow light with other seeds germinating late. Now my problem is when should I start giving them a little organic fertilizer ? My experiment worked but knowing the seed starting mix is sterile I know they will need fertilizer because those tiny seeds are going to run out of steam for those plants. Zone 9A here
Wow that's impressive! I just planted some bare root. For babies I like a seaweed fertilizer called Sea magic. Make it half strength for baby root growth
Aldi also has stackable planters sometimes.
Swiss Chard was/still is a favorite when my older kids were younger. The two of them could split the bowl and we would even have it twice a week. After washing good I'd cut the stems out and slice thin like celery. Sauté those in a Tbl of butter with diced onion in a large skillet with lid. While that is cooking, stack up the leaves and roll tight. Slice across the roll very thin slices, this is called chiffonade. Set aside until stems and onions are tender. When they are tender, spread the thinly sliced leaves over top and using tongs mix the stem with the leaves. Sprinkle with kosher or pink salt lightly, put lid on, turn burner off and let the leaves steam wilt, this keeps in more nutrients. Finish preparing the rest of your meal, serve in a bowl when all is ready. I will some times start with bacon or add 1 Tbl of red wine vinegar to change it up. There is never any leftovers. 😊
I love broccolini too! Love the flowers
I'm trying brandy boy, big boy, and beefsteak
I LOVE Chard! Swiss green or rainbow. The green grows larger leaves than the rainbow. Love to boil the leaves and use my favorite vinegar. YUM!
Yes itsa short season but yes chard is great, also pak choy i love but doesn't clump and gets buggie!
I'm in central Florida, last year I planted rainbow Swiss chard in September and harvested until this past April, not bothered by pests at all.
Great sharing all these tips. 😊 4 of the 6 varieties of beans I planted are up 4" already. What a surprise! Also, my herbs do best between the houses on the west side. Some sun but not too much I'm Zone 9B.
I’ve just gotten my purple Cherokee tomatoes in the beds and my Albion everbearing strawberries in their bed. Just put up some burlap trying to keep the tomatoes shaded just a little longer until the sun calms down a bit more
I always struggle with strawberries, I tried planing seeds all summer long from store bought strawberries but no luck, no sure if it was because I planted them in the summer months however the containers were always kept in my shaded patio. I'm in SW FL.
My mom used to keep her excess seeds in the fridge. cool and dry.
Sasso spinach also grows well in our sand.
I need advice for pepper plants please! Does anyone prune back in May and/or in September? Or is it better to just start new plants in September? I started gardening in zone 10b this past march and I know pepper plants should be able to live about 4 years. But the summer heat and bugs have ravaged the leaves on all of my pepper plants, no matter what type. TYIA!
Watching for replies 👀
I have 'perrenial' peppers that are currently 1.5 yrs old but haven't produced crazy amounts. They clearly want to live! I just want to help them be their best self!
I am trying Medusa, Polish beefsteak, pomodoro, black strawberry, San Marzano tomatoes
Noseeums ate me alive this week while on vacation in Captiva 😭 I feel like my legs and arms are on fire literally. We used a spray that’s supposed to keep them away but didn’t. I don’t know how you do this but goodness gracious 🤦♀️ I really enjoy gardening and this year has been so fun
Every time I went over to CI I had to fight them. I used to live in FM. Try using a product called Cedarcide. Safe for animals but not bugs.
I LOVE to eat carrots but they take forever for me to grow. My favorite is strawberries in the spring.
I love cucumbers, dwarf kale, cilantro and dill
I'm thinking of only growing winter squash there's so many other veggies that need the space squash take. Green leafy veggies and tomatoes are our priority. Up til now I've only grown them hydroponically year round...
Sweet potato leaves are very nutritious and even tomato leaves are being used by chefs in different ways, both cooked and raw. I’ve tried it and they add a different yet very tasty note to soups, sauces and sautées.I have been eating the leaves from my okra plants and they are delicious in salads. I haven’t tried cooking them yet because I never have enough left over even with 40 plants. I usually grab okra or leaves to keep me going while I’m out in the yard working. lol. And, of course, you already know that most of our flowers for pollinators or to deter pests are edible and/or medicinal….even many of the weeds. Have to research first.
I want to grow garlic and onions this Fall, please HELP!!! 🌿
Me toooo!
Been trying soft neck garlic past 2 years. Got from Keene Garlic. Year 1 my floridade tomatoes smothered the garlic. Got zero. Did it last year and got a few bulbs. Was happy but won't do again. I'm in So Flo and it's just not right for it. Maybe at my central florida farm in a year or two when it's fully operational.
My big "secret" is that, if I get to do this, I want to experiment with Creole garlics, and when I find what is good, I will become the "Creole (garlic) queen" at the farmer's market. But "Cuban purple:" surely, some Floridians have tried the Creole garlics; why haven't we heard about their successes and failures? Cuban Purple would be a Caribbean adapted garlic, if it has ever grown in Cuba at all. But unlike Florida, they have mountains down there, hence cooler. Same with "aji morada" from Baja. I also want to experiment with vernalizing garlics, and even wonder if it would be best to vernalize the Creoles, a little, too?
I hope to try some of the onions at Hoss seeds, and I want to try the equatorial African classic, "Violet di Galmi", a short day, if ever I've heard of one, and I have read that the original Bahamian onions were from the Canary Islands, so they're short day onions, too, if you can find those strains. There are some short day red onions (on Hoss, I think) which are really good, and long keepers, too.
I want to find some kind of perennial onion, a substitute for "potato onions", which don't bulb in the Florida peninsula or South Texas. But the once-head of gardening at UF ("IFAS") used to have a paper about perennial onions, which made it sound like there were Florida adapted perennial onions a lot like the potato onions. Someone at Hoss seeds said that they were searching for some old perennials from their childhood, and an Alabama lady had some at Baker Creek, which sold out really fast. Neither of those were necessarily adapted for the peninsula of Florida, but I thought I could give them a try. Egyptian walking onions are supposedly okay. And I was going to give Louisiana shallots a try, but someone said that ALL shallots were likely to grow well in Florida! Imagine that, if it's true! And of course, I'd want to grow Grano/Granex/"Vidalia" onions in season. I wish SESE, great as they are, would take Florida onions a little more seriously!
That's a whole lot of experimentation, and I would just be starting for the first garden in a long time. I imagine the main garden would be a very modest attempt, but I'd still like to run a few experiments so I can make that kind of progress sooner, rather than later.
I looked it up and Burpee still has Cuban Purple, at a crazy price, but they are seed garlics, to begin growing these. Next year, you'll have more. They begin shipping for zone 9 on October 7. Transplant baby plants January 18-February 29.
All sold out at Filarree and Great Garlic Gardens >Allicin Farms, but this is from what they said at Allicin Farms:
"Taste = Wow! Cuban Purple is a very rich, earthy garlicky flavor with very little pungency (hotness when raw) and that makes it an excellent garlic for raw eating and in pesto, salsa, etc. A hardy garlic that is great for growing in Florida and all along the Gulf Coast - California, too.
"The size all Creole garlics grow to depends on where they grow as they require as much direct overhead sunlight as they can get. Most of them have grown in the Caribbean area the last 500 years and they get real big when grown down South but rather small when grown in the north because they cannot get the intense sunlight they need."
Amaranth stems taste a lot like celery to me. I am going to check out the seeds for those native strawberries.
I grew Komatsuna which is a Japanese spinach with great success last year just kept coming back after I cut it … ❤️thanks for your videos I haven’t had much luck
With tomatoes though
Central
Florida btw
Hope you guys are fine after Helene!!
I have sweet potatoes growing like crazy in my raised planter. However, I noticed there were a bunch of white bugs living (and apparently nesting!) under the leaves.
Do I just dump a bunch of Neem oil on them, or is there something else I should be doing about this?
You might try to get the Black Krim plant at Dolin’s on 62nd Ave. I got one there last year with the Cherokee.
I changed my phone you were gone but I found you
The rain has been devastating for my garden
So how do you control torpedo grass in your raised beds if you have any? They are killing me this year- hey grow through black plastic and we are digging the entire bed to remove but I have 16 massive beds!
You’re pretty great!
Thai Basil
Please let us know you and your house and garden are ok🙏
I live in Lakeland. I need some strawberry plants.
Florida seed and garden in Lakeland.
Hoss up in Georgia.
I'm in Orlando but my Lowe's has them now so yours might too?
I failed at my Seminole pumpkins 😢 beautiful leaves and tones of vines but no fruit😢😢 I’m sure I need more pollinators but not sure what else. Can I plant again now?
I struggled with Seminole pumpkins too. But I’m gonna try again next summer
The $tree stackable dry out too fast.
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Is it too late to start large tomatoes from seed in SWFL?
you can still start them.
Hi, can you tell me where? I can buy puertorican bean. I'm in Central Florida.
Try Jerras garden. She's in Orlando.
It’s the equinox is when it starts. Winter starts with the winter solstice spring starts on the spring equinox summer starts of the summer solstice.
12:44 with these alternative spinach and spinach substitues: which ones are NOT slimy?