March Garden Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Florida Gardening 

Having Florida specific gardening videos, advice, and discussion is so helpful! Love the channel!

Everglades Tomato Tip- I always eat them right off the plant, but first I squish out the seeds and throw them right into the dirt before I eat the remainder of the tomato! Now I have tomatoes popping up all over the garden with zero effort! A++

I put my okra in the air fryer with olive oil and spices and it is crunchy, very delicious!

Hi Jackie, do you have hummingbirds? Could you do a video on them? When do they arrive in the area, what are the best plants to plant and how many plants does one need to be able to support a hummingbird without making nectar substitute? 😊 please 🙏 😁

For y’all that don’t know, roselle is the same as sorrel or flor de Jamaica. So you can use it to make sorrel drink if you’re from the Caribbean, or agua de Jamaica if you’re Mexican. It’s so good. And I like to call the pink tab trees Florida’s cherry blossoms. 😂

For tomato beefsteaks, I hope to have my parthenocarpic varieties within the next couple years. No pollination required and higher production. To keep bugs off, use organza bags at blush. Beefsteaks are a must grow for most. I'd also suggest other winter squash in the moschata/mixta family vs seminole. The taste is better.

Roselle - love it. So easy to grow and the jam and tea (hot or cold) is amazing!

I'm gonna start my sweet potatoes today. My seminole pumpkin vines survived the winter and are already weaving their way thru my back yard! I love this time of year. Thanks for all the great tips! 😎

Thank you for this! I’ve been trying to get into gardening, and these videos are very helpful. I’m looking forward to April’s Garden Guide!!

My favorite new Florida pollinator plant is the Bidens Alba (Spanish Needles) version by Proven Winners. It’s called Campfire Marshmallow and the bees love them just as much as the naturally occurring native. I have three in my garden and they’ve been blooming since January, the bees love them, and they’re beautiful.

Be prepared to freeze and/or dehydrate you banana yields to make them worth the effort. Another Blue(ish) flower this time of year is Spiderwort and the bees love it...and of course it's a weedy native -- forgive me, but I love weeds!!

I live on the border of 9b/10a and have grown spring slicing tomatoes for years without having to give in to the bugs. Make no mistake, by the time we get into July they're cooked, but a little BT every 10-14 days goes a long way!

Great March tips! Thanks. You mentioned cabbage. I only grow it in the winter. It is our best producing vegetable in our winter garden! No worries about a couple frosts or freezes. They withstand it. And NO BUG ISSUES. 😃We plant it every couple weeks thru September and October. Usually start harvesting late January and thru March.

I love your channel so much! I’m in Tampa (hey neighbor!) so it’s incredibly helpful. I started a garden this year and your videos have helped me so much. You keep it interesting, don’t drag on, and I love the pictures and labels you include.

Love that you mention the pink and yellows tabs, they’re my favorite. Also, best Florida food forest tree for me has to be the loquat. They’re making fruit prolifically in my area right now and they’re delicious and beautiful. Plus they have naturally occurring pectin which means that they’re very easy to make jelly with.

The March overview was very helpful to know what are good vegetables and flowers to start growing.

Ive learned Thai or other tropical asian of vegetables varieties do really well here.

Here in Englewood, FL it's nice to finally have some decent weather. This winter was terrible. My go "to's" during the summer are beans, okra, and a few different Asian greens. Also jalapenos and serranos. I need to try the Everglade tomatoes. I can't find them anywhere. Not a fan of growing sweet potatoes because once you plant them, that's pretty much all you can grow in that bed from my experience over the last ten years.

I started chef choice tomatoes last year. Not only did they grow all summer they are also restarting new ones around in the yard

I'm in Zone 9 in north central Florida. Noodle Beans and Jack beans are very easy to grow here. I don't have much luck with traditional green beans. Great content!

Your videos have become my Friday morning coffee ritual. Thanks for another great one, I always look forward to them! An added suggestion for my Southern neighbors is blue porterweed (Stachytarpheta jamaicensis). It’s a host or nectar for many butterfly’s and is also a bee magnet in my garden. Blooms are edible and leaves can be brewed into tea. It flowers fully in summer but here in zone 10a will partially bloom all year. Make sure it’s the native variety, not Stachytarpheta cayennensis, which is invasive in FL.

Thanks so much! I have Seminole pumpkin seeds, but those dang vine borers....

What a great episode. So full of information. Thank you!

your comment about tomatoes rang a bell for us to grow smaller types for salads

If getting dill or fennel starts from the store, get more than one, at least 3. And plant them in different areas. When the black swallowtail butterflies find your plants, they will "decimate" all the sprigs you want to use. Having multiple plants spread around gives you a little more time before you have to just sit back and just enjoy the flutterbys.

I live in Lake Worth and our last frost was last year. We don’t get them anymore apparently

Outstanding, informative and energetic video! My 4th year of gardening in my backyard and following you. So many choices across the Bay from you to choose from! 😊😊😊

I'm so excited it's getting warmer. I planted pigeon peas and they've been producing flowers since the end of December. The bees really love them. It's been one of the few things to really make a lot of blooms for me right now. I have marigolds and a few other things, but the pigeon peas are doing awesome.

Tropical sage is so pretty!!! The pink is gorgeous Also one of my yard/house rules is no mowing in late February and all of March the yard will Give us wild flowers and food for pollinators! It's fun to see what will Come up! Thanks birds I've had some interesting flowers come up. A skullcap , and other flowers I never planted but was happy to welcome to my yard! Black eyed Susan etc

I just pruned my everbearing mulberry following your video. I hope I didn’t kill it 😅

I have my okra and plan to start them this week. Love my okra. All time favorite. Fried, but like it stewwed too.

Thank you for your visit of vegetables and information I love watching ❤

I planted Puerto Rican black beans last year & they did great. I'm going to be growing them again & trying a few different kinds of beans also. I grew sweet potatoes last year too, wow, they did great. I'll be planting them again. I'm expanding my butterfly garden. I have started a good variety of native flowers which I'll be transplanting into the garden. I have a small garden in the front which is just for the butterflies but after learning from you, I'm now incorporating them in the back with my vegetables. I have noticed the big difference with the pollinators. I'm getting the last of my lettuces & kale now. I'll miss them. This was the first time I've grown them & it was so great just going outside & picking my greens for the day. I just harvested the last of my carrots thinking that was it for now but will try them again as you suggested. I have the shorter variety. Thank you so much for all your knowledge. I'm now a real gardener, growing my own food & sitting outside & just watching all the wildlife I've invited into my garden. My life is now more active & peaceful. I love your channel (and you}.

I love Thai basil, when they flower, bees are all over it.

Thank you. Really useful and informative information. Brilliant channel. I am thinking about experimenting with soy beans / edamame and peanuts, have you had any experience with these in zone 10? Wishing you a bountiful harvest and good health to you and your family.

So greatful for your chanel🍅

Excelente clima

Love, love, love your channel! I first learned of you when doing my butterfly garden & did fairly well. Any tips for growing lemons in containers? In Condo living I'm bound to very small area, so trying to do lemons & herbs, plus small butterfly garden! Thanks for all your tips! ❤

Interesting strain of Seminole. I've never seen one that didn't have straight ridges. I've had the best of luck with Roma type tomatoes, like Amish paste. They've produced the greatest weight of tomatoes before summer killed them.

I have much to do today and rest of weekend to get caught up.

Greetings from Jacksonville. This year I am definitely going to try Seminole pumpkin.

I watched several of your videos yesterday. Thanks for all the info! It's wonderful. You mentioned in one of them about using papaya as a cabbage substitute? Do you have a recipe or a general idea on how? Do you shed it?

Any recommendation on where to get real French Tarragon seeds or plants?

Just FYI capsaicin doesn’t bother insects, these stink bugs will eat ghost peppers for breakfast 😭

Central Fl here. Where can you find sweet potato slips? Sold out everywhere 😞

I have a question. When do the swallowtails start coming into Pinellas county? I started a whole bunch of dill from seed a few months back and they are huge but with no caterpillars. Just curious as I don't want the dill to go to waste as I don't like pickles 😅

What soil do I use for raised beds please

How do you use papaya as a cabbage substitute?

Would you use Neem oil spray, soap or peroxide soray? I’m noticing little knots near my peppers that I didn’t get when I started my garden last year. I’m stumped and sad.

Where do you buy all your seeds from? I am having issues finding certain varieties in local nursery’s in st.pete. I don’t mind buying online, though I’m trying my best to find where I can get the majority of the best variety for hot hot southern florida

I had one roselle with one bud and it dried. Can I reseed it?

Hello, where can i get seeds for the seminole pumpkin?

My (expensive) ever bearing mulberry died. 1st year great. Each year less. 5th year it didn't come back after winter. 😢😢

Is there anywhere in the St. Pete or Tampa area to get Seminole pumpkin seeds?

what flowers do you recommend for Humming Birds? Brooksville FL

I can't get corn to grow in southwest Florida. It always get eaten by bugs or rats!

Where do you get vegetable seeds?

How do you fertilize your mulberry? Thanks

I can't seem to grow corn to save my life. They won't pollinate well. The last crop was teeny and this one is growing outside the husk What am I doing wrong?

AND bugs

Is your 2024 book available?