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FL summer gardening ideas - best tasting & productive vegetables/herbs
roblack:
Everglades tomatoes are now growing wild here, spreading like wildfire and I love it! They are tasty and fun to eat.
Rispa:
You should try okra raw. Also I'm trying a few new things. Georgia Candy Roaster squash, garlic vine, and tindora everbearing cucumber
Galatians522:
--- Quote from: mcoambassador on May 13, 2024, 12:12:29 PM ---Late spring updates:
Re: sweet / bell peppers… my Costa Rica sweet peppers are out producing my Chinese giant sweet peppers 4:1, so unless the Chinese taste much better they’ll not make it back.
Re: tomatoes, once it warmed up, the pineapple tomatoes were amazing, but green giant were perhaps even better, though not super productive. I had issues with sun scald and uneven ripening with the Brandywine and Sart Roloise. Definitely won’t grow Brandywine again. Sart Roloise looks so cool, but not sure I’ll grow them again either since everyone loved the green giant and pineapple so much better.
Re: eggplant, my Aswad continues to pump out beautiful eggplants, and carries about ten fruits at any given point. Loving the baba ganoush and caponata, and almost getting sick of eggplant just from a single plant! Given away a half dozen eggplants the past couple weeks and kept a dozen so far this season. Foliage and eggplants are beautiful and disease free too.
I’m going to plant some lime basil (Thai type) this week, and some calypso cilantro (supposedly slow bolting) so we’ll see how those do.
Brian
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Seems like the sweet "snack peppers" are just better adapted to Florida than most true bell peppers. I've got some Jimmy Nardello ripening up now and will report back if they are as good as has been reported. They do seem disease resistant so far.
growinginphoenix:
--- Quote from: Galatians522 on April 02, 2023, 09:40:06 PM ---Almost everyone overcooks okra. Start by bringing your water to a boil. Next, add the okra and leave it in the hot water for 3 minutes--it will usually just start boiling again. At 3 minutes remove it from the heat and immediately drain the water. Butter and salt. I didn't really care for okra until I had it cooked that way.
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https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/204478/roasted-okra/
I'll throw out another okra recipe. Everyone I have given this okra too has liked it.
BajaJohn:
It would be helpful to post your summer average max and min temps and possibly humidity.
I'm in Baja Sur which has summer daily highs in the mid-90s and lows in the 80s, humidity below 50%.
Basil under the shade of trees is doing well, that in full sun has dried out. Thyme in full sun is doing well. Rosemary is a perennial doing well. I also have a few watermelons. Celery seems to grow well under the shade of trees. I also plant sweet potatoes and some varieties of beans, mostly for ground cover, but they produce a little. I'm just planting tree spinach which seems to be popping out new leaves.
Somewhat off-topic but really cool is I've just set up a tower garden in the house which is air conditioned. It has to have grow lights but has produced harvestable lettuce, arugula, parsley, thyme, basil and spinach in about 8 weeks. Still experimenting - all of the spinach and about half of the lettuce has bolted in 75 degree AC but it looks a lot better than I expected.
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