North Florida Gardening

[bower]

They are right side up when you click on em.
IDK why this happens...
Your starter setup is nice and neat! Mine always ends up on the floor LOL.

[PlainJane]

First 2 trays seeded and on the heat mat.

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[MissS]

You have some very nice varieties started. I wish you a great gardening season!

[GoDawgs]

Lookin' good. And you're off and running!

[PlainJane]

First batch of kids out for a stroll now that it’s finally warmed up.

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[PlainJane]

Last green cauliflower runt, first carrot, some Boro beets, peas and misc lettuce and radicchio.

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Still getting the annoying photo orientation issue until you click on it.
Really wish there was a solution for that!

[karstopography]

Very nice! @PlainJane When did you start your peas and beets? My sugar magnolia snap. peas are up about 2-3’ now.

I’ve yet get decent beets. Those are really nice. I might once and for all give up on beets, but I might still continue to try. Timing could be an issue.

Nothing better than fresh from the garden salad greens. I grew a lot of lettuce and salad greens this cool season and it’s been a bright spot, literally and figuratively, this go around.

Nice carrot. Looks very much like a St Valery.

I’ve grown cauliflower and gotten fairly good white and dense heads at times, but even then the bang for the garden space has been underwhelming.

Lots of garden vegetable options for us along the 30° north parallel in the winter. I’m getting better about organizing my beds so that the cool season vegetables are gradually phased out over the late winter into spring. I enjoy the cool season stuff every bit as much as the warmer weather crops.

[PlainJane]

@karstopography, I put the peas, carrots and beets in last November. I had a fabulous cauliflower crop again this year but my mistake was starting seeds all at the same time. I grew Clementine (orange), Purple Crush and Vita Verde. I had some happy neighbors and coworkers as I couldn’t keep up with it.

I planted Fava beans in a somewhat shaded spot and got a few over the winter but they’re blooming like crazy now. Carrots planted were Naval F1 and Dragon, from pelleted seed. The one I pulled must be a Naval.

Thinking about starting some cukes and squash next weekend.

[PlainJane]

@karstopography same here on cool weather gardening. Much easier to grow November to March than it is June to November. April and May tends to be the sweet spot for me, which is tomatoes and more tomatoes.

[PlainJane]

Everyone finally tucked in around the raised bed area. My usual growing spot will be a construction zone at some point so I had to improvise.

This season’s inventory

Cosmic Burst x2
Daniel Burson
Nicky Crain x3
Missouri Pink Love Apple
Pork Chop
Noire Charbonneuse x5
Big Golden Delicious
Gorgeous x2
GGWT x3
Solar Flair x2
King Pineapple x2
Cowboy x2
Awesome Emma (Cherry) x2
Hoosier Outlaw Black Cherry
Show Stopper
Big Juicy
Maglia Rosa (elongated cherry) x2
Vorlon x2

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[karstopography]

Very nice! Is that 34 tomato plants? You should be covered up in tomatoes by June.

[PlainJane]

@karstopography, besides me and my neighbors there’s the local restaurant I donated to last year. We got together and they gave feedback on what worked especially well for them, hence some of the multiples. Should be interesting!

[PlainJane]

Tomatoes are in the galloping stage.
A couple of the fennel are getting fat so I may steal one from the swallowtails.
Melons starting to leaf out.

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[MissS]

Wow, they are all looking good.

[karstopography]

Nice! I got kind of burned out on bulb fennel. Strange, because I used to go bonkers over it.

[bower]

I never had any use for fennel, but then one day my SIL served us a salad of fennel and arugula....
Seems like every flavor has its perfect mate.

What kind of lettuce are those, looking like butterhead?
They are lovely....

[PlainJane]

@bower, those are actually radicchio. The lettuce bit the dust two weeks ago when we had straight 90s.

[GoDawgs]

Wow, you're so far ahead of us yet not really so far away. Maybe a 6 hour drive? Stuff's lookin' GOOD!

[PlainJane]

I know @GoDawgs - it’s crazy!