Kitchen Gardens, Southern Style

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Comment by Joel LeGrand on September 18, 2009 at 6:50pm

Hi,
I am starting my Fall/Winter garden.
Onion, cabbage,mustard, spinach,turnip,broccoli, & carrot.

Comment by Amy Lockhart on August 30, 2009 at 8:57pm

Pamela, are the pumpkins "Seminole" pumpkins? There is a native to s Florida that can produce different looking squash from the same plant...They are very cool!

Comment by Sharon on August 30, 2009 at 7:23pm

Stephanie a lot of folks have complained of poor tomato harvests this year. Amy is right the hot, humid and rainy weather is not a good environment for tomatoes. For the first time in about 3 years we had to supplement our tomatoes with some bought from a local farmer for our canning. By the time we ate them fresh we didn't have anything much left over.

Welcome to the wonderful adventure of food growing!

Comment by Amy Lockhart on August 30, 2009 at 3:15pm

Stephanie, we live in Sanford and have had tons of rain! You probably have where you are too! Are the tomatoes that are petering out from your summer planting or this new fall planting? Hot, humid, lots of rain and tomatoes do not go well together. It can be very frustrating! :(

Comment by Michelle W. Flannery on August 30, 2009 at 7:54am

Stephanie, how old are your tomatoes? It is near the end of the season here in the south, and your plants may be experiencing a standard aging process. Yellow/brown leaves are common at the end of a tomato plant's life cycle. Yellow leaves and stems are common anyway as the plant ages. I suspect that is your problem. If you could upload a picture of the plants it could help determine what's wrong.

Comment by Stephanie Hankins on August 30, 2009 at 7:21am

HELP! My tomato plants are turning yellow with brown spots! I have lost one already! Any suggestions? (sad here)

Comment by Stephanie Hankins on August 13, 2009 at 6:29am

Good Morning from sunny sweltering humid Central Florida!
This is my first year to garden! I am having an amazingly wonderful time!
My "fall" garden is started and things are looking good! Still have more to plant of course and always learning!
Looking forward to chatting and learning on this wonderful site/
Have a growing day!
Stephanie

Comment by Eliza on July 11, 2009 at 3:17pm

I finally updated my garden photos, so there are a lot from the 2009 season now. I got a late start on my summer plantings this season (didn't get everything in until the last week of May & first week of June) so thank goodness for our long southern growing seasons!

Comment by Pamela Poor on June 28, 2009 at 9:33pm

The photo looks a bit stretched out vertically, these 'fruits' are much more rounded than this photo shows.
Maybe the leaves can also give a clue to whether they're pumpkins or not.

Comment by Pamela Poor on June 28, 2009 at 9:31pm

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