Joanna has a bunch of interrogative about gardening in Micanopy ( which is , incidentally , one of my very favorite places in Florida ) . I ’ll answer them by break away her electronic mail up into realizable bites .
Hello David ,
We purchased 3 acres in Micanopy about 3 years ago . I sense like we ’re still learn about our property , here & when to establish what ( that will really make food for thought ) , we are seniors so trying to figure out how best to grow food for thought in a means we can go on to maintain throughout our later age .
One of the best resources for cognise when to engraft isthe Florida Vegetable Gardening Guide from UF , which is detached and on-line .
As for what to plant , I wrote a Christian Bible on the theme . receive crop that grow well with the climate and take very little work makes a vast difference in your success . try out is excellent , too . Plant , trial , strain , and try again .
I ’ve watched many of your videos , including the one about growing food in north Fl ; yams , yard recollective beans , “ evergreen tomato ” ( where do I find those ? ? ? ? ? ? )
That ’s the “ Everglades ” tomato . It ’s a super - easy , weedy little sweet Lycopersicon esculentum . You canget it from the Victory Seed company .
However , our property is mostly flood geographical zone … . we have chicken that have been adapting to quaggy weather condition … so we call them “ swamp chickens ” .
I was considering using galvanized livestock food trough to make evoke beds , since we also are full of mole crickets here .
My sentiment is that it would be gentle to supervise all the body of water & mole cricket , what are your thoughts ?
In the case of overflowing ground , endure up makes horse sense . It ’s also respectable for your back . provender trough are quite expensive , though . I might go hunting for utter refrigerators rather , like this : Or make mounded bed , a match of pes high . Spending the money on those provender manger would hurt .
Any suggestions on what to farm here ?
In the flood ground , dasheen / taro , banana and more . I havean article on gardening in the swampland here .
We want banana , stinker , bay laurel , orange or tangerine , passion fruit , coffee berry , would sleep with berries ,
citrus fruit are no longer a good selection for Florida , due to the greening computer virus . Instead , I would plant peaches , persimmons , mulberries , pears , apples , loquats and chestnut . umber can be originate , but in pots or matte up against a south - face rampart . It ca n’t take the cold . Mulberry is the good berry , but you may also maturate a miscellany of blackberries as well as Mysore raspberries . strawberry are a pain .
what vegetable would you commend ?
Chaya , true yams , sweet potatoes , yard - long attic , okra , Seminole Cucurbita pepo , cherry red tomato , cayenne pepper white pepper , kale , leaf mustard , collard greens , length of service spinach , turnips , daikon radishes and moringa .
We do have wild muscadine growing & beauty berry .
Very good . I wish both of those . Wildmuscadines make amazing fix .
I suppose we have a duo of alligator pear sprouting up where I ’ve throw solid food scrap .
It may go or may not – it ’s too inhuman in Micanopy for tropic avocado character , but they may survive in microclimates . There are Robert Lee Frost - repellent miscellanea which grow well there , though . Break off a leaf and crush it . If it reek like anise , it is cold hardy . If it does n’t smell like much of anything , it ’s a tropical avocado tree .
mature , hatful , parsley , bee balm , cilantro in a very upright Sir Henry Wood planter boxful under the eaves of the house . Oregano & basil in pots in the front of the house . implant a fig tree diagram when we first moved in , it ’s surviving at about 1 1/2 ’ high … reckon that ’ll take many years!:-))Maybe the future grandchild will get figs!:- ) )
fig can grow very tight and often fruit in their first year . It is n’t happy where it is . Does it have decent filth and full sun ?
give thanks you for your videos !
Joanna
You are very welcome .
The best resource for gardening in Micanopy is Joe Pierce at the Mosswood Farm Store , aright at the final stage of the main road through town . He is growing all kinds of banana varieties and is turn a piece of swampland into a food for thought wood . Go in and ask for him , and be trusted to purchase some of the flora from his nursery .
Mybook is also a good resourceand well direct for the area .
Good fortune ,
David
