The Conservative Gardener

[...] killer) in the pic. If you click on the pic and make it larger you'll notice one of the tomato plants I had to re-pot sitting on my stone column. The leaf problem. What's nice is how this [...]

[...] -bar driven into the ground 2-3 feet deep for each individual tomato plant. I've got 70 tomato plants this year and this seemed to be the best way for my garden. If the plants get too heavy [...]

[...] Tomatoes. I'm excited about the tomatoes.....they look strong! The cutworms did get about 5 tomato plants, but I had some ready to take their place. (btw- you can click on any picture and it will [...]

[...] They're killing me. They've chomped over 25 pepper plants & 10 tomato plants this year. It started out with just a couple pepper plants getting chomped in half and I [...]

[...] the first week......."I'll do some planting during the week after work, and finish it up next weekend" goes the usual logic. Then the weekend comes and you forgot you promised a friend you'd [...]

[...] My Fall garden planting is getting ready to be in full swing. I like to plant my tomatoes first because they [...]

[...] pics so you can see how's its coming along: The first thing I do when getting ready for the fall garden is to plant my tomatoes. Even though Florida has a warm Autumn, it can get chilly in October. [...]

[...] on the plant, it causes the roots to grow down & strong. I then transplant them into some peat pots with a mixture of peat moss & potting mix. And then it's under the lights until the end of [...]

[...] . Conservative Gardener, while discussing which was best....a Florida summer garden or a Florida autumn garden. I choose the autumn one. [...]

[...] weeks after work. Check it out............ As the gardens up north start to wind down, the Florida autumn garden is just getting busy. Like these beans...........just ate the first one this morning! [...]

[...] squash! I feel like a dummy! Above: Magda squash. Above left: Sweet Lightning, Above right: Spaghetti squash. Above: Crooked Neck. Above: The Squash Patch. In the middle of my busy week I had a [...]

[...] 4:00....... that's............almost 8 hours of sun! Very nice.........Geesh, it's 8:45 and the dang squash still doesn't have any sun.........Dang it, I've got to plant them in a different spot next [...]

[...] as you can see below in just one weeks time I've got some squash! I feel like a dummy! Above: Magda squash. Above left: Sweet Lightning, Above right: Spaghetti squash. Above: Crooked Neck. Above: The [...]

[...] . The Garlic didn't do to well, so this year I bought some from a place in Texas that sells Garlic that grows in warmer areas. And I'll end with a message for all bugs................. [...]

[...] ..Was it too much water? ....... Not enough?......hhmmm.........Maybe it's getting too hot......dang Florida, I knew I should have planted them earlier! If I still lived in New England I wouldn't have [...]