South Florida Summer Garden || Successes and Failures
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- In this video I show you which plants in my garden did well and which didn't during the summer in South Florida.
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Welcome to my channel, Our Tropical Soil, where you can learn how to grow food in the tropics!
South Florida summers are tough on plants that aren't well suited to the sun, humidity, and bugs here! Some plants love the weather while others...not so much. I wanted to experiment this summer and decided to grow a variety of things to see what does well at this time of year. I wanted to share what were my successes and failures to better help all of you plan your summer gardens.
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Obligatory "I live in South Florida and every youtube video about growing in the tropics is either in Hawaii or Tampa" - So glad to hear honesty about what I should be growing in Broward. Subbed!
Haha pretty much! I am glad you find these helpful :)
SAME IM IN BROWARD AND BARRKY ANY SPECIFIC PLANT INFO
Such a load of honest info! Our s fl climate is unique to pretty much everywhere else in the world. Love that you don't just feed everything a nitrogen booster before filming like most other tubers so you look like a nursery
Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed the video. I am not a fan of any type of fertilizer application and instead prefer to use organic matter to improve the soil to be able to grow better plants.
Oh wow, that Mamey looks amazing it is my favorite fruit as well. Great garden.
Thanks so much! :)
I wish I can move to South Florida so I can grow some of those amazing veggie and fruit that you have.
South Florida has a unique climate when compared to the rest of the continental US. But there are still plenty of unique fruits and veggies to grow in other areas of the country too. Up north many different rare berry varieties can be grown and the veggies tend to do better overall also. If you aren't too far north then you can grow things like figs, persimmons, pomegranates, kiwis and plenty of other fruits. It all just takes a little research to find out what does well in the area.
This is awesome! I am in cape coral and this is my second summer with a garden. Videos like this give me so many good ideas. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching. I am glad you found it helpful. :)
Thanks for this video. Enjoyed it. Your Okra maybe suffering from root knot nematodes. Pull one up and check the roots.
Eyes and ears always !
Awesome!!! Can't wait till my tree's are producing just getting started. Love Mamay an Annona species of fruit💚
Thank you! With fruit trees one has to be so patient but once they start producing and get going most times they produce a ton of fruit so it is well worth the wait. :) I can't really decide which is my favorite but mamey is for sure one of my favorites.
I have been doing so much research on what I can grow in Miami, especially from April to October, that's half a year with extreme heat. I just filled 3 pages of information from you. Thank you so much for sharing, I am pulling out arecas and ornamentals and switching to all edibles. I am having a difficult time finding some of your suggestions. Have you thought of selling your seeds or cuttings? I keep coming back to your channel, you are the best. Keep it going.
Wow I am glad my videos have been helpful. You should also check out David the good and Pete Kanaris on CZcams. I have an Etsy store where I sell some seeds. The store is called Our Tropical Soil. If you are interested in some plants or cuttings I can sell you some. Email me to talk about it. ourtropicalsoil@gmail.com
You have an amazing South Florida garden. I live in Sarasota FL and started a container garden 2 years ago. I don't have a big yard I live in a mobile home community. I had my first crop of sweet pineapples this week. Nothing like what you buy from the store. I grow mostly herbs in the summer and this summer I moved them from my shade tunnel to under my carport so they would not get over watered during our rainy season they just love it there. I moved my banana peppers and cherry tomatoes into my shade tunnel and they are thriving there. Last summer they did not make it past June and now it's almost August and I'm still getting peppers. I'm growing sweet potatoes, ginger and regular brown potatoes. I have one long eggplant it stopped fruiting but it's healthy. I just got my first dwarf banana plant. I would like to add some of the crops you are growing any suggestions on where to find the seeds for the spinach, long beans or any of the other vegetables you mentioned? Thanks for sharing what's working and what's not.
Nice garden 👌
Central FL here, love your forest!
Thank you!
Nice update. Roselle hibiscus can easily be grown from rooting cuttings.
I didn't know that. Thanks!
I'm from the Dominican Republic and your growing so many things from Dominican culture like chayote
Yes a lot of the tropical plants that grow in the Caribbean do well in South Florida also. :)
@@OurTropicalSoilI'm nine I moved from the Dominican Republic to ohio when I was 3 years old and I visit my family every year
How do you like the United States? I am sure you enjoy visiting family in the Dominican Republic. It is beautiful there.
I live in S Florida and enjoyed your plant video so much- you have so many varieities I would like to try and some I have never heard of. I have had excellent luck growing Malabar spinach in a bag of dirt on my balcony that only gets a couple of hours of the morning sun. I noticed your soil where the Malabar spinach was had a lot of wood chips on top. If you have a lot of large pieces of wood in the soil, not just on top, I have been told the rotting wood will rob the soil of nitrogen until it is fully composted. I don't know if that is true or not but I have seen videos of people who had beds where they tilled in a lot of raw wood chips and the soil gave them problems until the wood was done composting.
It would be nice if you could add the names of the different plants you reviewed in your comments so viewers could use them to google more info on them. I subscribed- thanks again.
Hello, thank you for subscribing and I am glad you enjoyed the video! This post reminds me that I should try to plant some malabar spinach to try to grow in the summer this year! I have heard the about the wood chips also but also am not sure how accurate that is. I try not to bury the wood chips as much as possible but it ends up happening to some extent. I think that section where the malabar spinach was just has really bad soil overall as most things I plant there tend to not do too well. It is a little difficult to see but I add the names of most of the plants I mention in the video. In the bottom left corner where I first mention the plant you can see the name of the popping up for a few seconds. I hope this helps. On my website ourtropicalsoil.com I also have some plant profiles for plants that do well in this climate.
Great videos for us south Florida gardeners! I’m in my 1st year gardening and still buying seeds for new varieties I’d like to try. Where can I find the African potato seeds?
Thank you! It is awesome to hear that you are starting your gardening journey. For African Potato Mint you wouldn't buy actual seeds. I believe they are mainly grown from cuttings or from "seed potatoes." I would bet you could find cuttings, plants, or seed potatoes for sale on Etsy or Ebay.
Great video
My sweet banana pepper and sweet red peppers are doing great! I live in central Florida
Good to hear! Thank you for sharing!
Hi! Just discovered your channel today. Fantastic! So happy to subscribe. Keep up the amazing work! Gardening is a gateway connecting people to the Earth and how they consume. So glad to see you share amazing knowledge with everyone. Thank you! Keep on doing what you’re doing! Your efforts are really appreciated!!!
Thank you so much! I am happy that you find my content so valuable. :)
Cool! so much food! Our malabar spinach seems to be fine in lots of sun, we're in rainy place (Ecuador)
Just depends I guess. I have only gotten it to grow in the shade. :)
New subscriber here from Toronto.
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I have a raised bed garden around the block from me that I fool around with and around Halloween I planted tomatoes peppers and eggplant. The eggplant did not start producing fruit till about a month ago maybe a month-and-a-half ago so you're talkin about a little over 90 days to get anything from those black beauty plants. They grew like crazy right away huge leaves strong stems then I had tons of beautiful purple flowers but no fruit I hand pollinated to nothing. But then I read that the fruit will not set until like 50 to 70 days after you have flowers do just be a little patient and I did add some tomato fertilizer I don't know if that helped but they're both from the nightshade family
Yes I had the same issue. I heard about that too. They don't set fruit if it is too hot but if you let it grow, when the temps get a little cooler it will begin to set fruit.
Such a great content, packed full of useful information, thanks for sharing 😍
Thank you! I am glad you liked it :)
When you let the okra get that big on the plant they won't produce as much. They're better to eat at 3 inches or so. But a lot of plants won't produce as much when you let the fruit get so big. Awesome video tho. I enjoy watching such a diverse garden.
Thank you for the tip! You gotta stay on top of okra! The pods grow so fast!
You're right about that. They can go from a little too small, to too big over night lol.
I am in Jupiter Fl and mostly container garden but trying to do more of a native food forest thing.
Awesome! It is going well :)
Interesting.
Thanks!
I believe for your pepper they are yellow leafs and small peppers are due to over watering I believe.
Thank you for the tips!
Love your stuff!! Keep up the great content.
Oh your garden is so beautiful, I’m in Broward county, what do you do to keep the grass out of the beds, that’s my main problem. Do you put wood chips around the plants?
Thank you! Grass can be a real pain. The best thing to do is to make sure you get all the grass out before planting. Then you must add some form of ground cover in order to stop grass and other weeds from growing. I love using wood chips around the plants but you can use other things like straw and leaves. I have just found wood chips to be the best at preventing weed growth.
Thank you for making these videos. It keeps me growing :-}
Glad you like them!
Thanks for the update of what worked and what didn’t.
How much gardening space do you have? How much yard space in total?
I am looking to buy a home with more gardening space and want to know more or less how much I need.
I am not exactly sure how much space I have. In total it is around 1 acre but we have just fruit trees planted in most of it. Then the veggie garden area I would say is like 20 by 50 feet. If you are looking to purchase land and can afford it I would ideally purchase 1 acre or more. You can fit a lot of stuff in that amount of space and it won't be cramped. You can put in a greenhouse if you need one and a food forest/orchard along with annual beds. But you don't need that much space to grow a lot. However much you can get is better than nothing. Another thing I want to mention is to make sure the site has a good amount of sunlight. if you get a backyard that is on the northern side of a two story house then you will barely have sunlight.
Wow the variety of plants you have is unbelievable! I am a chocolate maker living in mexico, would you like to trade seeds for chocolate next time im back in the US?
Sure! I love chocolate. I had a cocoa tree but I transplanted it when it was way too big and it died :(
Very interesting! I just discovered the channel and have been watching every video! Will there be a new video in the future? I cannot plant tropicals in my area (Western Germany), but cherrys, apples, kiwis, grapes, peaches, almonds and persimons do great (and probably a lot more that I haven' t tried yet)!
I just put out a video. Thank you for watching and I am glad you liked the videos. All those fruits sound delicious and we can't grow most of them here in South Florida haha.
Surprised you don't have Chickasaw plums, i'm on the other side of the state and i love making jelly or just chill them.
I have heard of them and I need to get some seeds or a tree :)
ever gonna make another video?
Just put out one on Mysore raspberry pruning :)
Real nice
Thank you!
ops never mind I read the comments. Looks great!!! which clipping that you planted made it grow the most?
Both gave similar results. The plants are huge! Cuban oregano propagates very easily. :) I think if I were to propagate more then I would dig a shallow long hole and plant the stem horizontally instead of vertically into a deep hole. Then I would cover with mulch and keep well watered till it roots.
I am in SW FL. The heat is Burning my leaves. I put Florida glass screening over my squash and they are doing ok now.
I understand the struggle. The heat has started to damage my brassicas that were planted during the cooler months. You can definitely extend the season by providing shade. My brassicas that are under the shade of my moringa tree are doing a bit better than the ones with full sun. I do not have too much experience growing squash. I find that most species do best during the cooler months. I have heard that seminole pumpkin can grow well but whenever I have planted one in warmer months all the leaves get eaten by bugs.
Also where do you get seed for varieties like lagos spinach and seminole pumpkin? Awesome video!
Thank you! I get them from a few places. ECHO's online bookstore and nursery store sells some. You can also find some seeds on rareseeds.com and growincrazyacres.com
If you can't find what you need there then also try searching for the seeds on eBay or Etsy. A lot of home gardeners sell seeds there. I sell some seeds on Etsy myself. You can find my store my searching "ourtropicalsoil" on Etsy.com
What place of FL are u located? Can't way to watch ur next video!
Thank you! I am in Southeast Florida.
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Where did you get the malanga plants
I bought malanga from the store, cut it into chunks, and then planted it in some potting soil. If you want, I could sell you some offsets or a young plant. Email me. ourtropicalsoil@gmail.com
Where do you buy seed or plants???
Where did you find the African potato mint? I live in Homestead, and am interested in trying them. Thank you!
I got it from a friend. You can find some plants being sold online. I planted it in the ground but something destroyed the roots and no potatoes grew. Maybe it was nematode damage. I was able to salvage a few cuttings from the dying plant and I put them in a pot. I need to try again somewhere else maybe.
Hey. Were you able to get your chayote to fruit? Mine is just vining..
Hello, I am not sure what is wrong. Chayote is supposed to grow easily in Florida. Mine grew out a bit and I was able to get maybe 7 fruit off of it. Then it started dying back. It has tried to regrow from the base of the plant but every time it just ends up yellowing and dying again.
Your yellow pepper plant needs fertilizer and i would check your ph of the soil. It could be also an iron problem.
What's your preferred methods to test you're soil ph?
Thanks for the tips. Miami-Dade County soil can be very very alkaline. I have wanted to test the pH.
@@MrJoshcc600I use a soil test kit sold online and at some hardware store. "Rapitest" is a good kit. This will give you a general idea of what your soil ph is and nutrients it might need.
@@OurTropicalSoil Yes I deal with it here in N Dade. Also are water from the hose is very Alkaline 8.3 -8.8ph which adds to are already alkaline soil.
Thank you so much for the tip! I will look into it. Yes I have thought about the water in the well being alkaline. Good thing is that I don't water too much unless its really needed and instead let the rain do its job.
My guess is the chayote is dieing because the garden service is killing it with herbicide see the brown line along the fence.
Hello, thank you for your input but there is no garden service that maintains neither ours nor the neighbors lot. We do not spray herbicide and as far as I know neither does our neighbor. I think the chayote just doesn't like our soil too much. It eventually grew and produced some good chayotes but later it got eaten by some bugs. It died back and is regrowing now again. Fingers crossed it can get well established.
Our Tropical Soil I can’t get chayote to grow in SWFL either. I am still trying! Love your channel!
Where you get ground cover mulch? I'm in port St lucie
We use getchipdrop.com
Have you had success growing little gem lettuce if you have tried? Im gardening first time in south florida but have read extreme heat will ruin the lettuce! I also am testing out potato (from grocery store so we shall see), onions from cuttings and then cherry tomatoes and peppers...
I haven't tried that lettuce variety. I have only grown salanova lettuce varieties which is a hybrid lettuce. You can get seeds through johnnyseeds I think. Lettuce does well in the winter but not in the summer. I have tried potatoes but I think in the winter they should do well. Same for the tomatoes, peppers and onions. In South Florida most of the common temperate vegetables can be grown in the winter and in summer you have to grow some of the more heat tolerant tropicals like Everglades tomatoes, okra and sweet potatoes.
@@OurTropicalSoil Thank you! everything ended up dying HA... I got 4 cherry tomatoes and 4 small peppers... Trying again now in January
I think you will have better luck in the winter months. Peppers and tomatoes are a bit harder to grow. But if you start with greens and herbs you will likely have better success. Things like cilantro, parsley, dill and basil are very easy to grow. And greens in the brassica family are too. Like bok choi, collards, and kale. Lettuces a bit more delicate.
Try black seeded Simpson in the fall and winter. It’s the most heat tolerant I’ve found. That’s what I grow in Fort Lauderdale zone 10b. Haven’t tried in the summer though 😬😬 I plan on trying next year just to see what happens
New subscriber here! Hey do U have more info on sugar apples? I have a sugar apple and a custard apple tree n I can’t find any good info!
Thank you for subscribing! I have two videos on sugar apples I believe. On my channel search for sugar apple and there is one about harvesting them and another about eating them. What other videos about sugar apples would you like to see?
Our Tropical Soil thanks for responding. I need some general info on maintaining and education on it. I have a baby one in the yard and a custard apple. Want to make sure I can make them as healthy as possible ❤️🌈
u cuban?
Yep. Both my parents were born in Cuba. :)
Can Florida grow stinging nettle plants?
Hm I am not sure. i just did a quick search and it seems that some stinging nettle plants do grow here.
which city in Florida are you in ....? i'm from Boston and want 2 acres of lands
I am in Miami. Land is not easy to come by down here. There is much cheaper land in South West Florida.
what do you do about the insects?
Not much. When you grow healthy plants in the right time of year then there is likely to be minimal insect damage. For example, my collard greens get a lot of pests in the hotter months so I grow those in colder months instead. Planting them in partial shade helps to stop the pests too. Sometimes the older leaves of the greens have aphids. I soak the greens in water for about 20 minutes and that causes all the aphids to fall off. If it is a fruit that has pests, like guavas, then we bag them and that stops the pest damage.
@@OurTropicalSoil where do you buy your seeds?
Get some iron oxide powder online and dump all around where you walk.
Thank you for the tip!