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Fall gardening in Orlando, Florida

Category: Garden, Flowers and Citrus in Orlando, FL | Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 2:15 am

October 9, 2010

I am planting my fall garden. For two days I have pulled sweet potato vines and dug the dirt looking for the sweet potatoes. So far I have dug 30 pounds and I am letting them dry for a few days before I cook and freeze some for use during the winter. The very small potatoes I will use to plant in February for an early crop in 2011.

Today I transplanted 50 string-bean plants to the garden where the sweet potatoes were growing. I used my miser irrigation for several hours to be sure the soil was wet. The cucumber seeds I planted about 12 days ago are not ready to put in the garden. I aim to buy 4 tomato plants to plant in my earth boxes. I have one eggplant that did nothing during the summer months but now has blooms and two eggplant growing on it. My pepper plants are still blooming and putting on peppers from the spring planting. I froze so many quart bags of peppers to use in my cooking this winter.

The citrus trees produced so much fruit last year. There is a good crop of citrus on each of the tangerine tree, the two orange trees and the grapefruit tree for this season. I will be shipping it to my family and friends.

My squash plants this summer did not produce any squash. The leaves were big and beautiful and I had lots of blooms but they did not set squash. I was very disappointed in this vegetable. The radish plants grew big leaves but did not make many radishes. My cucumbers were wonderful to eat during the summer. The lettuce I grew in the earth boxes did very well till it got hot here.

I will send pictures later.
Orlandotwin


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Netty wrote on Sun Oct 10, 2010 11:53 am:


It all sounds wonderful! Your fall gardening is much different than here in Ontario. Most of your fall crops are our summer crops and even here the radishes will bolt in the heat. You should have better luck with radishes when your weather cools. Good luck!





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