I'm in central Florida and just finished wrapping my 4 foot tall tomato plants. My fingers are crossed they make it because they have fruit and all loaded with blooms.
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
Fingers crossed!
@normawong123
2 жыл бұрын
@@floridavegetablegardening .Thank you!
@nancytharp8213
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing 😎🏝🏖
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
You’re welcome! 🙂
@LifeIsMessyImLearningAsIGrow
2 жыл бұрын
🌻👨🌾🍅🥒🫑🥬🐝🐇🌼🌷☀️I’m back for another update of your beautiful garden. It’s amazing to see the changes in your plants over time. I love watching my garden grow a little each day, that is my favorite part of gardening. It’s so fun to have the growth documented over the season to look back at and see your progress. I love that about being a garden KZitemr. Let’s learn & grow more together!
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Yes I agree :)
@revoltrecords5387
2 жыл бұрын
Great suggestions! Happy gardening! 👨🌾
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Happy gardening 🙂
@timehasbegun5828
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Jacqueline!!!
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
You’re welcome! (My name is Elizabeth 🙂)
@timehasbegun5828
2 жыл бұрын
@@floridavegetablegardening Sorry Elizabeth. Jacqueline is my daughter lol😂
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
@@timehasbegun5828 😆 that’s quite alright! 🙂
@oh_wall
2 жыл бұрын
Great video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
You're Welcome! Glad it was helpful. :)
@karencoleman4137
2 жыл бұрын
That surprise freeze is here! LOL, thank you for the video. Very informative.
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
Yep! I keep thinking that I had just been saying this had been one of the mildest winters I can remember and then, sure enough, out of nowhere comes a freeze. I should have known not to tempt fate by talking about mild winters lol.
@zarahexa5611
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
You’re welcome! 😀
@Rownoks
2 жыл бұрын
🥰
@millysanchez7137
2 жыл бұрын
Great info thanks 😊
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful! :)
@inkandgrowrich9793
2 жыл бұрын
It dropped to 27 degrees last night and I lost 90 percent of my vegetables. My six banana plants are almost black and shriveled and ALL of my tomato plants are dead. I seriously wanted to cry when I woke up. The tomatoes were the size of baseballs and I was sooo excited! They're still green, but I think if I harvest them tomorrow and store them in the pantry.. there's a chance they will still ripen. Still .... heartbreaking. Lost all my cucumbers as well.
@francysgardening6913
2 жыл бұрын
Wow! Too sad! Where are you in Florida? That’s definitely too low for vegetables!
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
Aww that’s sad 😥. I’m sorry to hear that. Especially about your tomatoes when they were so close. Hopefully some will still ripen indoors. We got lucky here with this latest cold front. I think it got down to 36. Where are you located? I always expect to lose my warm season crops in January. Some years I get lucky but I have had my share of heartbreaking losses from January freezes. We just gotta start fresh with new seedlings in the spring.
@AE-yt4lx
2 жыл бұрын
Has anyone ever used an electric blanket to cover their plants during a winter freeze? I am a total novice.
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
@@AE-yt4lx I haven’t but if you had electrical outlets close enough to plug it in I think it would help a great deal if you made a little tent with the blanket. Some people make tents out of quilts and non-electric blankets and that helps a lot better than sheets.
@catmom9755
2 жыл бұрын
We had brief snow flurries today in NW Florida. I really have a hard time wrapping my head around how to garden here.
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
Oh my goodness! Snow flurries? Wow, that is highly unusual for most of us Floridians. I can imagine that gardening would be a bit more challenging that far north. How cold did it get? How often does your area get that cold? It sounds like you would need to wait until much later to plant out any warm season vegetables. Probably late March or even mid April depending on when your last average frost date is. Most cool season vegetables should be able to handle temperatures down to about 25 degrees and some can even tolerate as low as 20 - except for a few things like lettuce, peas, potatoes, which I would cover if a freeze is expected, just to be on the safe side.
@catmom9755
2 жыл бұрын
@@floridavegetablegardening It's not unusual for us to have some winter freezes, but this is only the third time in six winters here that I've seen any snow. Our 10-day forecast shows lows from between 26 and 51 degrees. Ha! The map lists my average last frost dates as Mar. 21 - Mar. 31.
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
@@catmom9755 brrr. Wow, I didn’t realize any part of Florida got snow as much as 3 times in 6 years. I don’t envy you. I’m pretty sure my area has only had one snow flurry in my whole 40 years of life. It was a long time ago when I was a little kid. I think you should be ok planting cool season crops, except I would would cover lettuce, peas and potatoes if it freezes. I would wait until at least late March to plant warm season crops outdoors, but I wouldn’t want to be without warm season vegetables that long so I think I would have to get some type of greenhouse if I lived further north. Tomatoes especially would be hard to grow with such a short window of time. I’m assuming you still get the same hot, humid, rainy weather that we get in June and that summer weather kills most tomatoes pretty quick so that only gives you a couple of months (April and May) of ideal tomato growing weather and that’s not really enough time. I would be trying to grow tomatoes in pots in a protected environment for about 6 weeks before your last frost date to get a big head start in the spring. Most other warm season crops shouldn’t be as hard to grow as tomatoes though. I hope that helps. Good luck! 🙂
@catmom9755
2 жыл бұрын
@@floridavegetablegardening thanks!!
@lindajordana755
2 жыл бұрын
I am in zone 9b Port St. Lucie. We hardly ever get frost. I know we have had frost in the past but I don’t remember the last time. Are we considered south Florida?
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
Yes. I think Port St. Lucie is considered South Florida. The University of Florida's Planting Guide defines the North, Central and South Regions as follows: "North = all of Florida north of State Road 40; central = the section of Florida between State Roads 40 and 70; south = all of Florida below State Road 70"
@ShanniM
2 жыл бұрын
I'm in Central Florida 9b, just pulled out my tomatoes to that have been going strong since September. Gotta figure out something to do with the green tomatoes...They we're slowing down and getting sickly. I'm going to get a quick crop of bush beans before the real heat gets here in April and I clear them out for okra
@13MysticAlchemy
2 жыл бұрын
13Love Seastar lol I hear black eyed peas and yard long noodle beans do very well here in the heat.
@ShanniM
2 жыл бұрын
@@13MysticAlchemy Ayyye mi Seastar found me lmaooo In my experience the black eyed peas grow great during our hottest months and they nourish the soil for the tender crop planting in the autumn. I also have had success with okra, callaloo, sweet potato and peanuts. I'm going to try Seminole pumpkin again too this year
@13MysticAlchemy
2 жыл бұрын
@@ShanniM I just purchased some Seminole pumpkin seeds! I think those are the ones I'm most excited for lol I picked up some wild yams and some different varieties of sweet potatoes from Sanwa. I can't wait! I'll have to get in contact with yah soon so we can do a seed swap! 13Love my divine Seastar ♥️
@ShanniM
2 жыл бұрын
@@13MysticAlchemy Lol 13Love that would be awesome, keep me updated with how things are going 😁
@caratmama4769
2 жыл бұрын
What kind of grow light system do you have?
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
It's nothing fancy. I'm just using a regular shop light I got at Home Depot with four T8 light Bulbs. Initially I was using 2 cool spectrum with 2 warm spectrum bulbs, but now I'm using the daylight bulbs. Both have worked fine. I only use it to start transplants and not to grow plants for their full life cycle. I don't know how well it would work if you were trying to grow a plant until harvest indoors, but it works good for starting transplants for 4 - 6 weeks. I should probably do a video showing the setup I have. I got the idea from another KZitem channel called MHP Gardener. I pretty much copied everything he says he used to make his grow light stand. He talks about it in this video from 4:47 - 6:30: kzitem.info/news/bejne/1XeP1qJohpZqmHY
@francysgardening6913
2 жыл бұрын
Where are you located in Florida? I am in Massachusetts and planning to move to Florida when I am ready to retire, but I need to know what part of Florida is best for gardening. I will appreciate your advice! Thanks so much!
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
Hi. I am located in West Central Florida. A bit north of Tampa, in Odessa. I think most parts of Florida are great for gardening as long as you plant at the right times for your region. North FL might be slightly more challenging than central and south Florida though, because they have a shorter planting window.
@francysgardening6913
2 жыл бұрын
@@floridavegetablegardening Thanks for your advice! But I went to visit my sisters at west palm beach and at Hollywood, I noticed the soil is just sand.
@inkandgrowrich9793
2 жыл бұрын
South Florida is great in terms of climate (I'm in Myakka City). The soil is a bit of a challenge though. Took me a year to amend the native soil..
@francysgardening6913
2 жыл бұрын
@@inkandgrowrich9793 How do you amend the sandy soil? Sounds super hard!
@floridavegetablegardening
2 жыл бұрын
@@francysgardening6913 ah yes. Most of Florida has very sandy soil. Not only that, but we have bad problems with root knot nematodes in the soil. A lot of people grow in raised beds or containers because of this. You can still grow directly in the sandy soil but you’ll want to add amendments, compost, fertilizer, etc. There are probably some soils in Florida that are better than others but we all have sand. In my area we have a lot of farms inland in rural Hillsborough, Polk and Manatee counties so I think they have pretty good soil in those areas. However, farms certainly use fertilizer and amendments too so it’s not just that their soil is great on it’s own. I use a lot of compost to amend the soil and also regularly apply organic fertilizers.
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