I’m feeling much better today, able to move around with a lot less pain. Now to get back into a more “regular” sleep pattern. I’ve been sleeping most days and up most nights for the last few days, throwing off everyone’s daily routine. My posts have been irregular at best, and I’m feeling like getting […]
Category: gardening
A simple recipe: Three plant Edible Landscape Salad for Florida
I heard about this,and want to look into it for several reasons. First, it offers almost year-round availability here. Second, each plant is tasty from the samples I’ve tried so far. Thirds, its highly nutritious, as well as Paleo! The three ingredients are
Because I can, and it’s the right thing to do.
I was recently speaking with a family member that now lives alone, and we were talking about how hard the economy was, and how hard it was becoming to make ends meet. They went on to tell me how they barely had enough money to go grocery shopping after paying all the bills on their […]
New Plants from Cuttings (Malabar Spinach)
I purchased three Malabar Spinach plants at a plant sale back in early June, and as I mentioned before, we really like it. But even with it’s fast growth rate, we eat it faster than it grows. So i wanted more
Summer crops for coastal South Florida, Zone 9B / 10A – Alternates
I called this one “Alternates” since I have several other plant options for summer gardening in south Florida, but they aren’t as important to me (yet?), though I may have grown, or am growing them now.
Summer crops for coastal South Florida, Zone 9B / 10A – Sweet Potatoes
These herbaceous perennial vines are VERY welcome volunteers…all over my yard, offering a leafy ground cover I can eat as a salad when young, as a cooked spinach substitute when older, and of course, a tuber I can use in a variety of tasty edible treats.
Summer crops for coastal South Florida, Zone 9B / 10A – Yard-Long Bean
From www.evergreenseeds.com: Yardlong Bean, also called Chinese Long Bean, is a vigorous climbing annual and the plant begins to produce long pods, ranging from 14 to 30 inches, 60 days after sowing. The pods hang in pairs that should be picked for vegetable uses before matured. Yardlong Bean is a subtropical/tropical plant and is widely grown […]
Summer crops for coastal South Florida, Zone 9B / 10A – Malabar Spinach
Malabar spinach is an answer to one of my many garden-based prayers, the most common request being “Please give me SOMETHING organic, besides fire, to eliminate these
Summer crops for coastal South Florida, Zone 9B / 10A – Intro
I grew up in the mountains of West Virginia with rich, fertile soil. We also had seasons that included frost, a definite garden killer for most plants. Now that I live 1000 miles south (1005 miles to be exact, at least driving miles) of the farm I grew up on, I have to deal with the […]
Revisting our “Free Food” volunteer tomato patch
I wrote about our patch of tomatoes that overran my pepper plants, and have mentioned them from time to time since then. Yesterday, I went out and picked all of the ripe fruit from both the volunteer tomatoes, as well as those from the black cherry tomato plants I planted. I was shocked to see […]