Find the Joy of growing Flowers and Food in the Subtropics!
Florida is an amazing place to garden! You can grow hundreds of pounds of healthy home-grown fruits and vegetables. You can enjoy a rainbow of flowers blooming year-round. You can savor the songs of birds and watch as butterflies peacefully glide by from your patio. But many new Florida Gardeners struggle when they follow classic gardening advice. The reason - Florida is different.
That's why I started my channel, I will help you: Avoid the biggest mistakes that stop all New Florida Gardeners Grow a successful Vegetable and Tropical Fruit Garden Attract the wildlife you want (butterflies, bees, and birds) Manage wildlife you don’t want (pests) Explore native wildflowers Grow with Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly methods
So skip the stress and start getting excited to grow an Oasis of Beauty that will bring you Joy!
Hi, I purchased some organic potatoes to grow suckers. I saw a video where you stated in Fl. we don't have to grow suckers just plant the sweet potatoes.I'm in zone 10b and saw that video after I half planted the sweet potatoes. I have lots of suckers on the potatoes now. Do I plant the whole potato with all the suckers or remove them? I would appreciate any advice.Thanks.
Because of you, I have slowly but steadily been adding Native plants to my yard. I'm looking forward to more than the few daily visitor butterflies that visit here daily.
Found some randomly growing in a spot in my yard lol going to wait until they put out flowers (because I want a female) and try and transplant it up front. Thanks for this! Shout out from Tampa 🌴😎✌️
I used to get lots of Bee's, Hummingbirds, buttf. now it seems they took off down south or up state,nothing until August,by then my Dill is done [for the catip.] used to get hundreds of bees you can hear the Hum. from their wings,i keep trying,my catip. when they become big one day they are all gone,i think its the birds they watch me,I once caught an assasin bug feeding off a catip.once,going to make a puddler for the first time,starting to give up not enough bugs,i had a santuary back here 18 years ago.with trees to,June berries Elderberries,they take over,anyway its fun,and stay in shape.Nice video.
Terrific video!! Learned so much! Wanting to try propagating from our mulberry tree now that we've tasted how delicious the berries are this year. Any suggestions of where can we buy cuttings of the dwarf ever bearing kind? Thanks!!
Could you speed up the process by dipping it in some sort of rooting hormone powder or some kind of mycelium that'll speed up the root growth? Do you need to cover it with like a plastic clear jug or a pop bottle to hold in the moisture or are you just sticking it out there and hoping for the best? What's the best way to go about propagating
For chop and drop you need to find a particular species that grows well in the poor soil. So you are in florida you may be having certain bushes that can grow easily before the set seeds you just chop the flowering parts to allow more growth and force plant to produce more branches. In my case we are in Dubai, UAE and we have salty sand, so we need a lot of water to let plants grow, we grow a lot of leucaena and small native bushes. Napier grass/Bana grass is one of the plants that can grow easily easily in sandy soil. Secondly to add minerals what I recommend is to add sea water mixed with normal water to add minerals into the plant ecosystem. The ratio that I have experienced is 1:100 so every 1 liter you take add 10 ml. to offset the salt form sea water, so to get rid of sodium from the soil, you plant purslane plant (Portulaca oleracea) to mine the chlorides and sodium to remove the salt, but ensure you do not compost the cuttings of purslane, better option is to feed to chickens or rabbits that you may eat as meat.
So we live in the northeastern United States and tropical milkweed cannot survive our winters so in our case we can continue raising tropical milkweed in our area right?
Just FYI, you can tell male from female by looking at the hind wings. Males have a small spot on the main vein on each hind wing. Females don’t have the spot and they have thicker veins.
❤So happy I've found you ❤ I'm in 10A and was in terrible need 😫 thank you so much 🌸 I've started a few sweet potatoes. We'll see 👀 but I'm gonna do your way for sure asap!
