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00:00 Crops that grow well in Florida
00:40 Best Peppers Florida
01:40 Best Kale Florida
02:40 Best Tomatoes Florida
03:47 Radish for Summer
04:53 Cucumbers for Florida
06:20 Can you grow garlic in Florida
07:25 Squash for Florida
09:24 Can you grow spinach in Florida
10:24 Can you grow celery in Florida
12:04 Best Bean Florida
23 Comments
My first year growing stuff after moving to Cocoa Beach from Oregon. This video is helpful!
Carrots! What a disaster. Germinated quickly but never grew. I suspect too much heat. Cucumbers as you say, not good. They got to 1-inch tall then withered.
I bought coffee tree seedlings with me. I thought they’d thrive here. They produced lots of berries in Oregon but the plants gradually died here one after another. They’re usually grown at higher altitudes so I think it’s too hot here with no nightly cool down.
What is doing well is sweet potatoes and ginger.
Loved this format. Thank you
Another substitute for celery is large collard/kale stem. Same size and texture. I use them in my red beans and rice in the winter. The celery leftover stalk that is not worth eating I just stick in the ground in the garden, it roots and grows in the cool of the year.
Love all these tips.I too love cucumbers and will try the variety you mentioned in the video
I ordered some seeds from your site but didn't see the seasoning pepper seeds. Do you have a source you can recommend for those?
Great list. I'm in northern Florida and bell peppers do okay here I've even over winter a couple of plants in the ground no protection. But of course that depends on the winter season.
I grew rat tail radish in Indiana and they did great, I haven't tried them here yet.
Good morning Elise. The garden is looking lovely. Thanks for sharing. Just like you, I'm looking forward to turning my yard into an urban garden. 🌼🌼🌻🌻🌹🌹
Loved this video! 🙏🏻
Where can I get rat tail radish seeds? Would love this to be a part of your seed club. ☺️
Look into Seminole Pumpkins as an alternative to squash. I think it taste even better then buttermilk squash and its super easy to grow.
Excellent video and very educational as it can be hard to find people that focus on the unique climate we have in SW Florida. I think some of these crops we will have to wait until fall to plant, but I believe the pepper, radish, and everglades tomatoes can be grown now. Are there others plants on this list that can handle the crazy hot summer months?
Great video! I just started some Everglade tomatoes. I'm really looking forward to see how they do.
I was into gardening when vegetables become so expensive especially peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, long beans and squash! (I just throw the seeds in each raised beds we have attached made by hubby of 4 decades). We’re 60 years old and decided to retire after seeing our loved ones died similar to our ages so we like to enjoy life to the fullest in simplicity! Thanks again for sharing your videos, happy gardening everyone! ❤️🤗
For people who can pick up live plants in St Petersburg, Urban Harvest offers some seasoning peppers, like suave numex, cap 455, habanada, and aji sazonar for sale, so you can skip the slow germination and go straight to pepper production. Some of the other plants mentioned in the video as live plants are chijimisai, garlic chives, and Fordhook Swiss Chard. Elise also has varieties of sweet potato slips, which will provide a green vegetable option in the summer as well as tubers later. Happy growing!
Great information. I'm still learning what works and doesn't work in my climate so this video was really helpful!
I grown vegetables in Central Texas with very similar challenges. I would add the following recommendations: for cucumbers, take a look at Armenian cucumbers. They are actually melons so they do well in the extreme heat and humidity and grow all summer when traditional cucumbers die or get bitter. They are also huge, like at least a foot before they get too big and seedy. For garlic, try Elephant garlic over winter. They are actually an onion, not true garlic, and don’t need the cold weather time. For squash, look at Cucurbita moschata varieties which do well in the heat and are extremely vine borer resistant. Examples would be butternut squash, Seminole and Cherokee pumpkins, and Tromboncino squash, which can be harvested either as summer or winter squash. Finally, on green beans if you can’t trellis but have room for bush beans, plant cowpeas in the summer. Most people harvest them when they dry out for the beans (like black eyed peas), but if you harvest them green and thin, they taste like green beans with a nutty flavor, like the foot long beans.
BEST video yet! Just what I wanted to see. Info on plants I’ve never heard of, and want to try. I’m in Land o lakes Fl. I’m excited to try these. Keep these type videos coming. Thx again.
Trombocino makes a great Summer squash alternative. Pick it when green and cook like zucchini. Let it age on the vine until creamy tan color and save to eat as a Winter squash
garlic can be grown here. you need soft neck variety and you need to pre chill them in your fridge for 6-8 weeks and plant in dec
What do you put in your greens talk now
Great info. I learned many of these lessons the hard way.
Thank you so much for this video (and all your others too)!! This is exactly what I have been looking for!! Gardening here is so different. The growing seasons are backwards plus the zone 10A heat and humidity preclude growing so many standard veggies. Hurricane Ian destroyed my backyard. I want to re-landscape with edibles, but it has been hard to find correct information for my zone. Your site is perfect!! Thank you!!!
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