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Growing Food in Florida: When to harvest cowpeas and okra?
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Growing Food in Florida. Vegetable gardening advice for novice and pros. July 24, 2011. When to harvest cowpeas and okra? My readers asked, when do you pick okra and cowpeas? Usually it is advised to pick okra when it is three to four inches long. But what if you missed that stage? This overgrown okra will make a fine roasted okra dinner. The "non-pickable" okra should be left on the plant to mature and go to seed. Did you know you can make coffee out of okra seeds? You might also like:. Subscribe to: Po...
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Growing Food in Florida: What can we plant in August in Florida?
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Growing Food in Florida. Vegetable gardening advice for novice and pros. August 3, 2011. What can we plant in August in Florida? August is a very important month in terms of preparation for a fall harvest. All warm season vegetables that take two to four months to mature need to be seeded or transplanted into the ground in August so they can be harvested before Thanksgiving. Here in Florida it's spring planting all over again, with a bit of a twist. Amazingly, cowpeas. Tomatoes, peppers and eggplants s...
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Growing Food in Florida: What to do with overgrown okra
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Growing Food in Florida. Vegetable gardening advice for novice and pros. July 25, 2012. What to do with overgrown okra. First, do a "finger" test. Squeeze the okra pod with your thumb and your index finger. Does it give? Meaning, is it soft at all? If the answer is yes, then you can pick that pod and use it in your usual cooking, like fried or roasted okra recipe. Posted by Florida Gardener. Labels: Garden Calendar: July. July 28, 2012 at 10:38 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Grow chickpeas from ...
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Growing Food in Florida: Growing cow peas or cowpeas or black eyed peas
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Growing Food in Florida. Vegetable gardening advice for novice and pros. June 14, 2011. Growing cow peas or cowpeas or black eyed peas. As the name of this vegetable can be spelled in many different ways, as it is that useful to the gardener. Usually Florida gardeners are wondering what can they start in the summer. Regular beans do not do very well in the heat and humidity of our summers, but cowpeas do not care! At any given time I have cowpeas that are dry and ready to be harvested as a dry bean:.
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Growing Food in Florida: Grow tomatoes, eggplant and peppers over the winter in Florida
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Growing Food in Florida. Vegetable gardening advice for novice and pros. October 16, 2011. Grow tomatoes, eggplant and peppers over the winter in Florida. Who says we cannot have our cake and eat it too? And some tomatoes ready to be transplanted.. Posted by Florida Gardener. Labels: Garden Calendar: October. May 27, 2014 at 1:35 AM. The turning point in the process of growing. Up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. See the link below for more info. If you plante...
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Growing Food in Florida: Composting with chickens
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Growing Food in Florida. Vegetable gardening advice for novice and pros. September 1, 2014. It's September, finally! We can get ready to start our most productive and enjoyable fall season. I am cleaning my beds, ridding them of summer weeds, to prepare for the fall planting. This summer I let my beds overgrow with weeds, just did not have the time to weed or plant any cover crops. But, too many weeds is not as bad of a problem because all of them can be composted beautifully. But composting in a low pil...
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Growing Food in Florida: Grow chickpeas from a grocery store
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Growing Food in Florida. Vegetable gardening advice for novice and pros. July 22, 2011. Grow chickpeas from a grocery store. I've been just a pantry sprouting queen lately. Everything I plant turns to green! The latest project was seeding chickpeas (garbanzo beans) from the grocery store bag. As usual, I buy store brand. I'm not even sure if they have a name brand beans in the store. But anyway, the project turned out very successful. I got myself some chickpeas in a bag:. Posted by Florida Gardener.
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Growing Food in Florida: Greens in the Florida Summer
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Growing Food in Florida. Vegetable gardening advice for novice and pros. July 18, 2013. Greens in the Florida Summer. We know that in the summer we might as well throw in the towel, or a shovel. Nothing grows but cowpeas and okra. Well, to be fair, quite a few seed heads fell onto the ground, and now, voila! I have radishes sprouting everywhere, even on the lawn. To my surprise, this is one resilient radish. Here's the start of the garden salad from the garden. Posted by Florida Gardener. Were still grow...
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Growing Food in Florida: Praying Mantis
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Growing Food in Florida. Vegetable gardening advice for novice and pros. July 7, 2013. That's one bug you want to attract and keep. They are a predator insect, and feed on moths, mosquitoes, flies, and crickets, among other things. This particular individual decided to land on my seed catalog. Maybe it was hinting at something, or was learning to read. In any event, this was a pretty fun picture to take. Posted by Florida Gardener. Survival Gardener, AKA David the Good. July 15, 2013 at 9:54 AM. I love h...
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Growing Food in Florida: Companion Planting
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Growing Food in Florida. Vegetable gardening advice for novice and pros. April 16, 2015. In my never ending quest to grow more greens and to extend greens growing season I am experimenting with companion planting, and especially with growing dense and mulching heavily. Posted by Florida Gardener. April 18, 2015 at 6:53 AM. I am working toward having more to harvest in summer as well. Ive planted my kale (Dino) under shade and so far, so good. Last year, we experimented with a variety of lettuce c...Dont ...
