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Recent Entries to this Blog SUNNY,HOT AND DRY IN ORLANDO, FL
Posted: 08 May 2011
MORE PLANT PICTURES
Posted: 09 Apr 2011
BLUEBERRIES IN ORLANDO
Posted: 09 Apr 2011
OUR WEATHER IN ORLANDO IS GETTING HOTTER.
Posted: 08 Apr 2011
SURVIVE THE STORMS AND RAIN.
Posted: 07 Apr 2011

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SUNNY,HOT AND DRY IN ORLANDO, FL

Category: Garden, Flowers and Citrus in Orlando, FL | Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 9:21 pm

Happy Mother's Day to all Mothers.

My garden is doing well because I am watering everyday.
I have cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, green peppers, bush beans, okra, and lettuce planted. Also sweet potatoes and golden potatoes. The asparagus plants will take a couple of years and all three plants are growing good.
I still have grapefruit, oranges and tangerines on the trees to pick. The wonderful thing about citrus is you don't have to pick it when it is ripe. It can stay on the tree for several months while you eat it or give it away.

I will put up pictures soon.
Happy gardening to all.


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MORE PLANT PICTURES

Category: Garden, Flowers and Citrus in Orlando, FL | Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 2:04 am




Potatoes in sack. ( photo / image / picture from orlandotwin's Garden )






Flowers in the back yard. ( photo / image / picture from orlandotwin's Garden )






Tangerine Tree ( photo / image / picture from orlandotwin's Garden )





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BLUEBERRIES IN ORLANDO

Category: Garden, Flowers and Citrus in Orlando, FL | Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:34 am

My son and I are going to order some blueberry bushes from a Georgia Grower tomorrow. Mike will grow them in his backyard as a hedge. We will get the mature size so we won't have to wait to start picking berries. I hope in the future to have lots of them in my freezer. The blueberries are suppose to be so good for us to eat.
When I lived in Bethlehem, PA, I use to grow lots strawberries. I grew so many my family got tired of eating them. This was 25 years ago and they still do not like strawberries.

The potatoes that we planted in the potato sack are growing so fast. I keep adding soil every few days. I can't wait to see how many potatoes we really get from this sack in a few months.

The sweet potato plants are growing good too. I am going to get some free mulch that has turned to soil from the county. I will need the soil to cover the sweet potato vines as they grow.

I have okra, cucumbers, bush beans, squash, sweet potatoes growing in my 4 foot wide and 40 foot long garden. I am ready to plant some more beans and pepper in the garden. By July the temperature is too hot to grow vegetables here. We start again in September with our fall garden.

Happy Gardening!







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OUR WEATHER IN ORLANDO IS GETTING HOTTER.

Category: Garden, Flowers and Citrus in Orlando, FL | Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:31 am


Lettuce in Grow Box ( photo / image / picture from orlandotwin's Garden )






Bell Peppers in Grow Box ( photo / image / picture from orlandotwin's Garden )






Tomato Plants in Grow Box ( photo / image / picture from orlandotwin's Garden )





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SURVIVE THE STORMS AND RAIN.

Category: Garden, Flowers and Citrus in Orlando, FL | Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:02 am

Everything is fine here in Orlando this week. We got 5 inches of rain and we had to pick up some small limbs and leaves from the storm that came across Florida a few days ago. Some tangerines dropped to the ground from the wind. A few tangerines are now splitting because of too much water. The tangerines are so sweet.

I will answer the comments tomorrow. Thanks for writing the comments. My hand is fine from the stinging nettle weed. Now my left leg is getting over being attack by ants when I was pulling weeds in my garden. The nest was under some leaves and the ants were all over my leg before I knew it. I received about 50 bites before I could knock them off. We fight these ants all year long. They must like our sandy soil here.

The plants are all growing good and starting to put on more leaves. Squirrels are still here and still digging their little holes in my garden.

Happy Gardening!





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STORMY IN ORLANDO TODAY.

Category: Garden, Flowers and Citrus in Orlando, FL | Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:22 pm

Our weather here in Southwest Orange County has been rain, high winds and some places have experienced tornadoes. There is plenty of lightning here and hail in other areas. We have been watching the television news programs as they predicted where the worst of the storms were heading. Our lawns,plants and trees can use the water.

My three biggest tomato plants have blooms and small tomatoes starting to grow. My one pepper plant has two small peppers and lots of blooms. These plants are all growing in two grow boxes. The lettuce is growing very nice in two grow boxes.

I enjoy going out every morning to see how much the plants have grown. The other day I was weeding and pulled up a plant that turned out to be a stinging nettle weed. Did my hand ever hurt. I was wearing no gloves and my hand hurt from 10 AM to the next morning. I hope to never see another weed like that again.

Happy gardening!








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Help me get rid of these squirrels.

Category: Garden, Flowers and Citrus in Orlando, FL | Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 1:23 am

I am planting my spring garden and the squirrels are digging holes to find acorns that have fallen from a large oak tree. Everyday I find small holes all through the garden. One evening I sprayed malathion on the ground of the garden hoping they would not like the smell. It did not work. I read on the internet to put mothballs in the garden. It helped some but they still dig for acorns. I am getting ready to use some spices and hope they work to keep them away.

I have three of my grow boxes planted with tomato plants I bought from Home Depot about 3 weeks ago. They are on the pool deck that is screened so the plants are safe from the squirrels. I am also growing peppers and lettuce in grow boxes this year.

I am watering the garden everyday. Using a couple of drip hoses and garden misters. Our temperature has been mostly in the low 80's and we have seen no rain for two weeks. May is suppose to start our wet season for Central Florida. I hope it start raining in April.

I planted 3 asparagus roots for my husband this year. He really likes the tips. I don't care for this vegetable. I never have try to grow this plant. I don't know what the plant looks like as it grows.

Pictures later when the plants are big enough to see.













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Squirrels are trouble for my Tangerine and Orange trees.

Category: Garden, Flowers and Citrus in Orlando, FL | Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 10:42 pm

Squirrels are hard to control when the citrus gets ripe. I have used nets that makes it hard to pick the fruit and does not stop the squirrels from grabbing the sweet tangerines or oranges. This past week I tried the Guardian noise system I purchased over the internet. The first day I used it, I was excited because the squirrels stay away from my yard. By day three the squirrels were not staying away at all. They were eating the flower buds about 3 feet away from this noise maker. I am going to send back this Guardian noise maker this week. I may try spraying a hot mixture on the citrus trees.

Today is rainy and cool here in Orlando. Recently the temperature has been in the high 70's and today we have a cool 61 degrees. I have to think about getting my garden ready to plant. I am going to buy some plants and use seeds for some vegetables this spring.
I hope to get some compost from Orange County to till in my small garden. I can't wait to pick my own green peppers and not have to eat the ones from Mexico. This year I am going to spray the plants more for bugs and schedule the fertilizer on my calender so I don't forget to use it.

Happy Valentine Day to you all.







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A few warmer days and nights in Orlando, Florida

Category: Garden, Flowers and Citrus in Orlando, FL | Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 1:49 pm

Hurray it will be 76 degrees today and we can expect rain on Saturday and more warm weather. On Sunday the plants will be covered again to protect them from weather in the mid thirties. I hope all of you have a wonderful Christmas.

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Weather is not warm here in Orlando.

Category: Garden, Flowers and Citrus in Orlando, FL | Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 10:10 pm

The weather has turned very chilly here in December.
I have been covering plants and shrubs for about a week. I use freeze cloth that I have sewed into very large pillow cases that fit over the ficus tree to protect the orchids. Old bedspreads, blankets and sheets do well to protect my plants. I sew several old sheets end to end to cover large areas of plants. I think the lowest temperature has been about 31 degrees for a very short period. It did not effect my tangerine, orange or grapefruit trees. All the Amaryllis in pots are fine and the ones in the ground are too. My string beans were covered with freeze cloth and they had no problem with the cold weather.
It is warm today about 70 degrees so we uncovered the plants but plan to cover them again on Sunday afternoon when it turns cold again. Our grass is all straw colored.




Orchid on the ficus tree still blooming. ( photo / image / picture from orlandotwin's Garden )





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