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In reply to the discussion: Started my seeds today [View all]

onethatcares

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12. one of the good things about living on
Mon May 2, 2022, 08:13 AM
May 2022

the west central coastal area of Florida is 2 gardens a year.

Planted the spring garden in January and February. Three types of tomatos, beefsteak, skyreacher, sno-globe, 6 patio eggplant plants, a lot of carrots, gourmet mix of lettuce, three curly kale plants, three sweet pepper plants, three jalapeno plants, along with 25 sweet onion sets, 10 garlic cloves, brown potatos.

those are the plants that are producing as I type this. Don't know how the potatos are doing underground but the vines are looking real good.

Downy mildew got my cukes and squash. Yanked and tossed into the trash. Hope solarizing kills the mildew this year.

Planted sweet baby watermelon two weeks ago and have flowers and small melons already.. Will be container planting shishito pepper seeds today along with oregano/cilantro/misc herb seeds in containers.

I have three fig trees in 5 gallon containers with new growth, Brown Turkeys. They should produce this year along with 6 pineapple plants with good sized fruit on them (I luv the taste of skillet pineapple upside down cake)

this is third year in this garden and the soil is looking very good. I will pull the spring garden in June, solarize the beds and replant my winter crops in September to start harvest in November.

good thing I'm retired. I'd never have time to tend to this otherwise.

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