gardening in Florida

[Guest guest]

Carolyn,

You're supposed to plant gardens in the fall in Florida because summers

are too hot.

Hardly any veggies will grow in that heat. I'm in Houston and have to

plant in the fall, too, and again in early spring. By now, tomatoes and

probably peppers aren't setting fruit any more, and winter crops won't

grow at all and have gone to seed.

H.

[Guest guest]

Temperatures here are about 80-100 and many places in the north it is about

there, isn't it?  I know that the planting charts here put it in fall for

planting.  Yet we usually have some kind of flowers of all year.I wanted to try

for it a bit.  We have had a lot of rain and I thought that might be more of a

problem here.  EW out in So. CA grows veggies all year round.  I was trying to

put veggies in partial shade to keep it from being too hot.  Might now work but

I wanted to try it a bit.  Probably is a waste.  I got one strawberry off the

strawberry plants and don't know if they will put out anything more.  My

tomatoes are too small right now.  I put some outside and they are about  3-4 "

tall.  I got some lights and may try some inside.  My lettuces inside in the

Aerogardn are going crazy and I really have to cut leaves off tomorrow so it

doesn't get too thin.  I may have enough for one meal. 

 

i'll try again in the fall when it is the time here.  I'll be trying to see

what I can get grown now.  It doesn't make sense to me why things like tomatoes

won't grow year round.  They like full sun up north.  They like a lot of

water.  I am not putting them at the hottest spot.  Ones I put out in the

winter didn't even seem like they did that well.

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 11:00 AM

Subject: gardening in Florida

 

Carolyn,

You're supposed to plant gardens in the fall in Florida because summers

are too hot.

Hardly any veggies will grow in that heat. I'm in Houston and have to

plant in the fall, too, and again in early spring. By now, tomatoes and

probably peppers aren't setting fruit any more, and winter crops won't

grow at all and have gone to seed.

H.