I choose the day “ off ” yesterday by help oneself a friend polish off some tree diagram and do brush clearing .
We harvested these this morning :
The Grocery Row Gardens have had all their gaps planted and are just well over with greenery mighty now .
I need to film a video when the Dominicus is n’t as rough as it is this morning . We have cucumber in bloom , blackberries on the vines , grapes make on the treillage , sunflowers endure into bloom , watermelon vine starting to run , cassava increase erupting from last year ’s frozen stumps and flower blooms everywhere . It ’s adorable , and I ’m aroused to see how much we harvest .
We ’ve already perpetrate in about fifty pound of potato and have more we need to glean . They ’re in general small and the plants are n’t that generative , but we always turn them anyway .
One of the points I ’ve repeatedly hammered home in my books is the need to grow staple fiber cropsthat thrive in your climate . This does n’t mean you ca n’t produce whatever you care , and fight to make it produce ! If you want to try something harder , do it ! Potatoes try so good from the garden , I keep ferment to grow them better and to get decent fruit . This twelvemonth we experimented with feeding them cottonseed meal at planting . They grow rich and green , but still are failing to give us the amazing yields you get farther north in good land with cool springs . They just do n’t seem to like the rut and the pounding rains alternating with drought , as we suffer through in Lower Alabama .
As I say to Rachel yesterday , here we seem to have two types of conditions : hot drouth intersperse with severe thunderstorms and flatus . It is what it is , and we grow around it ! scented potatoes , true yams , okra , Seminole pumpkins and some other crop can take it and give consistent yields … but other thing like tomato , bell black pepper , bread , lucre and other crops do n’t wish it and alter in success from yr to year .
If you ’ve build your gardens around what consistently thrives , so you always have a core of good takings , you may let yourself try other crops that are less consistently successful without putting all your caloric eggs in one unpredictable basketful .
Eggplants and blackberry are easygoing here – and are beautiful to boot . Even if other thing give way , we still have the easy stuff bringing us a solid , dependable issue . Keep that inwardness and wreak with other things you care around the edges .
all Crazy Easy Florida Gardeningshows the fashion . It will aid you immensely if you are fighting to garden in the Sunshine State .
