Winter Veggie Garden Tour || South Florida || Pt.1
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- In this video I will take you on a tour of my South Florida winter veggie garden, so you can learn of some of the different vegetables that can grow in Florida!
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Welcome to my channel, Our Tropical Soil, where you can learn how to grow food in the tropics!
I feel pretty lucky to live in South Florida. Yes, it is true. The sun is strong, the humidity high, and the bugs are relentless. That doesn't mean we can't grow food down here! I would say South Florida climate has the best of both worlds. Our mild winters that only dip into the 40s a couple of times a year allows us to grow tropical plants like bananas, and sugar apples. Our hot and wet summers are unforgiving to common vegetable plants, however, the winters are ideal for them. Our winters are like northerners summers. We can grow vegetables all year long here. In the summer we would plant heat loving species like corn and okra. In the winter we can grow plants like lettuce and cauliflower. Year long fruit production and vegetable harvests? Count me in!
If you live in Florida then be sure to take advantage of our climate and get growing! You can learn more about growing food in the tropics by subscribing to my channel or checking the links down below. Thank you for watching!
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I’m in Florida. I love to live in South Florida. Happy garden !
Great garden you got to top your basil you can train it to grow low and spread. It's easy to propogate just take fresh cuttings in water, some will work and you can use it as a ground cover, or low bush
That bok choy looked huge.
I have had good luck growing chioggia beets during our winter season in full sun. It is an Italian variety. I am experimenting with golden beets at this time. Detroit dark red beets also work but are more prone to leaf damage from insects. I have the same problems with eggplants over the winter in full sun - lots of plant & flowers with little fruit. I have had sucess with production from February on. The long ones are easier than the black beauty variety to grow.
Thank you for the good information. I still haven't had much luck growing beets. My long purple eggplants do way way better than the large Black beauty ones. I have begun to prefer the long purple one because the skin is a lot thinner.
You have gorgeous garden look at all those veges and fruits!!! Thanks for share.
Thank you for watching :)
Very good video. Thank you
I am glad you enjoyed it!
Nice to see all the healthy looking foliage considering we are digging out of a massive snowstorm in the North. Vanilla plant looks so healthy. Bok choy looks great. Regarding basil it just needs to be pruned and in full sun. I grow only two basil plants that turn into bushes because I continually prune them. From my broccoli growing experience they need full sun and more fertilization to produce enough broccoli for eating. Well seasoned Organic cow manure works very well for both basil and broccoli. Enjoy the nice weather. Keep learning and sharing!
Thank you for the tips! The sun is a lot stronger here though. I feel like if I plant things in full sun they will just wilt up. Its all about experimentation though so I will get around to trying different things to see what works best! I am sorry to hear about the huge snow storm!
@@OurTropicalSoil Yes. Our summers are in the 80 to mid 90's degree range. Very sunny and hot. From my personal experience wilting does occur in the first couple weeks after transplanting. Once the root system develops in response to the extra heat and dryness it does not wilt anymore. They tend to just adapt and grow stronger after the initial struggle that can last up to two weeks. It's hard to look at them laying on the ground wilted but they spring back up in the evening and morning with a little water, until they get weather hardened. You are right its about experimenting with plants. There's always something new to learn.
I will definitely try planting some in full sun before the cool weather leaves us! Right now the mustard greens and collards sometimes are wilted during the middle of the day. Not terrible but just a little bit. At night they aren't wilted anymore. This is with the plants being in partial shade. I am not sure if the sun is stronger during my winter than your summer though. Since the equator moves down into the souther hemisphere at this time of year it means that we don't get such strong sun. Where as in the summer it moves up higher so is stronger in the northern hemisphere. It might be that when comparing the two distances from the equator to the different locations that you guys up north are closer to it during the summer than I am in winter. I am not sure just a though. I hope that makes sense. A good example of the different strengths of the sun dependent on latitude is the time I went to Arizona in the summer to visit a friend. In Miami a few hours at the beach with no sunscreen I will get red. I was in Arizona in the middle of July It was over 100 degrees during the day and I would go to the pool for hours without sunscreen and not even tan. The sun is much much stronger here I was shocked. This was in Yuma Arizona so not much higher up in latitude than Miami. I wonder if there is another explanation for this but I am not sure. I would think that the sun was stronger in Yuma because its the desert and it also has a higher elevation than Miami.
My experience with Beets and Swish Chard in South Florida is that they don't do well in our soil because of Nematodes which causes root rot! You might want to use these varieties for Chard, Bright Lights, Lucullus , and Ruby Red. Beets require ample moisture at seeding or poor germination will happen, try covering with plastic to hold the moisture until they sprout. Winter time is are vegi season in south Florida, after May i have never had much success grow vegetables except Kale.
Thank you for the suggestions! I will try it out with the few seeds that I have left. The summer sun is way too strong for all these delicate vegetable plants. During the summers I plan to rely more on perennial vegetables instead of annuals. Some annuals I want to grow though are jicama, yard long green beans, Egyptian spinach, okra, roselle, seminole pumpkin, Indian lettuce, Malibar spinach, and hopefully some corn. I need to do a bit more research on annuals that love the heat.
@@OurTropicalSoil Really like what you got growing. Check me out on Facebook I'm growing lot of the same stuff look forward to more of your video's✌
I think the soil is number one ingredient for plants. So how could you get the soil for all plants? Patient patient patient 😊
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Beautiful garden, new friend (subbed)
Thank you for the kind words :)
Thanks for sharing your gardens with us!
Thank you for watching!
You have a nice garden going thank you for the tour
Thank you for watching. I am glad you enjoyed it!
Your garden looks great. I'm surprised you're not having more problems with bugs and fungus. Maybe it's because you cleared all the old trees before planting your veggies? If you start to have a problem, neem oil/water seems to work well. Anyway, keep it up!
Vegan Trader Thank you! I am also quite surprised. I think it’s because the bug species here are most adapted to be active during the summer and then when winter comes its like their “off season.” I have some neem oil and diatomaceous earth on stand by ready to go if need it. I am going to try my best to not use it though. I think if I grow healthy plants they will not get infested with anything.
New sub here thanks for sharing. Great content I’m in central Florida. God bless
Thank you for watching and subscribing. I hope everything is growing well for you in central Florida :)
Great job! It all looks delicious 😋
Thank you!
Good video. You have given me several ideas I can incorporate into my garden. I am north of you in zone 9b, central Florida.
Thank you! I am glad you found the video helpful and enjoyed it. What are you growing in central Florida?
WOW! Welcome back! (I haven't even watched the vid yet, LOL)
My Name Glad to be back :) I got a bit out of my routine during the holidays. I am planning to stay on schedule for 2019.
Perhaps look into raised beds (better drainage) for the veggies. I have raised beds with Miracle Grow potting soil here in the Midwest and they do very well.
What kind of soil do you have? The soil in Miami can be very very very sandy. You water it and the water drains so quickly. I have heard that planting in the soil instead of raised beds is better for sandy areas since everything drains so fast. Some areas in Miami have muck which is soil that is created from swamps. That type of soil has more drainage issues sometimes.
Our Tropical Soil Try checking with your local nursery and ask what type of PH soil certain veggies thrive in. I would recommend raised beds because your soil down there. My raised beds are mostly topsoil and Miracle Grow Potting soil mixed in along. We have mostly clay or silt like dirt in our area and veggies didnt do well so I started raised beds.
pH plays a crucial role in plant growth. As far as I know the ideal pH is from 5.5 to 7.5 for almost all types of plants. From what I have learned we also have very alkaline soil in south Florida since our soil comes from limestone. Clay soils can get very compacted and hold onto a lot of water. I am glad your raised beds are doing well :) Adding mulch over the clay can hopefully help loosen the soil and improve drainage.
Our Tropical Soil Raised beds are awesome. We get so much thai chilis, Asian eggplants, basils, mint, vietnamese mints, Asian long green beans called Spinach beans.
Awesome! I have grown green beans here even in the summer! They are very good.
A great garden. Ever consider cutting down that oak tree that's stunting some of your crops?
Warren Okuma Thank you! I have actually. However. I like the shade it gives too. The shade isn’t terrible since oak leaves are small and the only thing being really affected by it is the cranberry hibiscus. I like using the shade to plant shade loving plants like the vanilla, Katuk, Cuban oregano, longevity spinach etc. I think once I replace the cranberry hibiscus with something else all the plants should be doing well. I also like that he longevity spinach is getting a good amount of shade. If it gets more sun it grows out of control! Once the summer comes it’ll get more sun and it’ll grow some more.
Thanks for your channel! I am very interested in learning how to grow here in south Florida. Will be watching and subscribing! :)
Thank you! It is awesome that you want to grow food here. :)
Why do you think plants grow in the shade?
The sun in Miami is very strong and it gets very hot during the day so the plants that get some shade especially in the afternoon, which is the hottest part of the day, can have some relief.
Great work! If possible can you come by our 5 acres for some brainstorming on setting up vertical farming pods and what to grow in them
Thank you! Email me at ourtropicalsoil@gmail.com and we can talk about the vertical farming.
Where did you get your vanilla?
I got a cutting from someone growing it locally. You can probably find cuttings or plants sold online on Etsy or Ebay.
Nice garden. If you have the right soil you should be able to grow anything! I bet you would enjoy the Garden of Eden movie. Its on youtube its an hour and 43 minutes long.
Yes I believe good soil is what is most important! I have seen that movie and I love it. :) Are you growing anything for yourself?
It's not just sand under that mulch is it?
Tyler Dostie Thankfully it isn’t! I got lucky. If kept covered with mulch the soil is nice and dark. After a few days of not having mulch it turns grey and dusty. Mulch makes a huge difference!
I've tried multiple times to grow beets but I only managed to grow 1 and it was not impressive either :/ I don't know if the soil has a fungus or disease that kills the beets off but the leaves always turn blood red and die.
Oh man. I have seen some of the small farms growing it here. Someone else in the comments was saying it is because of nematodes. I don't think the single one I have growing will be impressive either. The Swiss chard seemed fine once it established itself. Maybe it would be best to grow them in raised beds.
I'm in south FL. what do you do for leaf miners? all of my plants are covered in them. Neem oil does not work! any tips?
I am sorry to hear that you are struggling with leaf miners. I don't really have an issue with them unless it's in the summer or the leaves are older. My approach to gardening is sort of like I try to grow something and if doesn't work I might try again at a different time of year or with a different variety. It would be helpful to know what plants you are referring to. Email me ourtropicalsoil@gmail.com or message me on Instagram @ourtropicalsoil and hopefully I can help you a bit better.
Were u stoned in the intro? Btw your garden is nice🤓
Haha no.