I posted a new video yesterday giving you the secret to easy Florida gardening – check it out :
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I raise almost a thousand lbs of intellectual nourishment in my Florida garden in 2015 .
I wrote a book calledTotally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening : The Secret To grow Piles of Food in the Sunshine State .
The closed book is growing the plants that grow in Florida .
If you grow the plants that prosper in Florida you’re able to grow more food with less oeuvre than you ever thought possible .
Here ’s the thing with Florida , correct : people move down here to Florida and they seek to grow a clustering of Yankee plants , and they seek to grow them the way they read in garden books that were written for a Northern hearing , or they were written in the perfect South California environment or , you know , someplace in Oregon and you go … “ nothing works ! I tried putting in a raised seam with a wad of compost and it did n’t work out very well , I tried growing tomato and then they all rotted and they got holes drilled in them by stinkbugs , and everything got wreck ! ”
Well , here ’s the thing : Florida is a very unique climate . Where I am in Florida we get freeze in the wintertime , and they ’ll take out the tropical plant . We get like 10 - 12 freezes peradventure in a wintertime that wrecks the tropical material . So you think , “ hey I can develop papayas , ” and then papayas farm really well until December when you get the first freeze and the papaya plant thawing . So that ’s not quite right . attempt to grow cabbages , you set them in March , and then it generate to April and it gets really hot and wry and they just fall down to pieces and they look uncollectible and by May you have a bunch of rotten cabbages .
With Florida, you’ve got to grow the plants that grow well in Florida
For the last 5 or 6 years I ’ve tested plant that have like clime . Places like the Mediterranean , where they get some frosts sometimes but they have foresightful , hot summertime . Or Africa . Or Southeast Asia . And some of these plants you ’re not intimate with , and I cover a mickle of these flora in the Holy Scripture . works like the railway yard - long bean or the asparagus bean from Southeast Asia . It spring up like a weed . you could plant it in the midsection of the summer and it ’ll still produce and it get these beans that are like ( this long ) . They ’re not quite a yard so it ’s imitation advertizement , but they ’re close . They ’re close-fitting to a yard long . I grow chaya , which is Mexican tree diagram spinach plant which comes from Mexico . And it ’s a perennial Green River that is healthier for you than regular spinach plant . You seethe it for ten minutes and you cook it and it ’s a swell , chewy , delicious , nutrient - rich falsify green . I mature plant like Surinam purslane which scarcely anybody has heard of . It ’s Talinum fruticosum . decent , crunchy , delicious , watery leaves that are very near .
develop the kind of stuff that will grow here . Grow yam , right ? I ’m not talking sweet potatoes – I ’m talking African yams .
Oh , just a second .
Like this .
This is a lot of root . This is like a huge Idaho potato .
You know how much work it took to farm that matter ?
It took me about 10 mo to plant it and then it lease me maybe an time of day to dig it up two years later . It ’s a perennial vine . And so , you’re able to just spring up the hooey that actually grows here and you’re able to consume really full food , but you have to nail down the works that grow well here . If you essay to grow beefsteak tomatoes you ’re gon na fight with it , but if you spring up Everglades cherry tomato which is in all likelihood a native Florida mixed bag – that thing grows like crazy and it will pop up year after yr , it ’ll ego - seed and come back and you get all these amazing cherubic little cherry tomato , and they grow neat !
Some of these plants that you would grow up north , if you planted your dinero in March , you sleep with , they ’re not gon na do well . If you plant them in early February , they ’re gon na do mulct . If you constitute them in November they do very well . It does n’t usually freeze hard enough to hurt any cabbage , so you could have them growing through the winter and then they pop into their emergence and they make great cock-a-hoop dainty heads in March and April and they ’re ready to go .
So you ’ve got ta get word the plants that arise in Florida and then arise those . You do n’t have to have containers , you do n’t have to have perfect grunge , you do n’t have to do expensive lift bed . you could plant these industrial plant and with a minimum amount of work get a lot of food , but you ’ve got to pay attention to the climate and you ’re going to have to adjust your eat a small act to get used to the stuff that rise here . Some of the material from up north grows with child but you ’ve got to grow it in the winter . Some of the poppycock from further south turn great but you ’ve got to grow it in the summertime because it ’s drop dead to freeze in the winter .
Once you learn those plants : I did very little body of work for that 1000lbs of nutrient .
I did a few hours here and there in the outflow , then a few hours of harvesting , a few hours here and there in the dip get stuff in for the spill garden , and they maturate like screwball and I do n’t do aquaponics and all sort of complicated organisation and gutter gardens and MiracleGro and all that kind of stuff .
I grow with compost on my own property , some organic amendments here and there and then I get lot and lots of intellectual nourishment , because I develop the plant that grow well in Florida .
So that ’s the secret to Florida horticulture : figuring out what grows here and then grow that . It ’s really not all that grueling .
taste itout , test some of these crops , look it up , I ’ve got a huge crop list in the Scripture with a ton of stuff that grows well and I ’ve get it ranked consort to how easy they are . learn that out and do it . you may happen the book on Amazon , and you may also ascertain raft of information – I ’ve get over 1,000 posts at my website TheSurvivalGardener.com a lot of which is gear towards Florida , though I ’ve start to move more towards international harvest as well , so hunt me down at TheSurvivalGardener.com , findmy books on Amazon , be trusted to like and partake in the videos , and you may get 1000lbs of nutrient without a mountain of work . And I could have done triple that if I had really , really bring at it and just planted more space . Just a affair of putting it in and doing it . But we were able to develop all the vegetables we needed with the elision of a few roots and it was all organic and we ate very well .
So that ’s my two cent – that ’s the secret !
