The Florida Plant Guide

What to plant, and the month to put it in the ground. Written for Florida, not for a magazine in Ohio.

Most gardening advice is written for somewhere else. It tells you to plant tomatoes in May. Do that here and you will spend the summer watching them die. Our seasons run backwards from the rest of the country, and nobody warns you.

Sixty one pages, free, and it covers all three regions of the state.

Came here from the seed starting video

Then this is the piece that goes with it. The video is the how. This guide is the what and the when.

Before you fill a single tray, you need to know which crops get started in September, which ones wait for October, and which ones should never see a tray at all. That is the month by month calendar in here, broken out for North, Central and South Florida. Start the wrong thing in the wrong month in this state and the tray was never going to work no matter how well you watered it.

What is inside

  • A month by month planting calendar for North, Central and South Florida
  • Plant profiles with the varieties that actually hold up in this heat
  • Soil, water and pest notes for sand and humidity
  • Companion planting that works in a Florida bed
  • What to start in trays and what goes straight in the ground, month by month

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No spam. Planting reminders when the season turns, and you can leave any time.

While you are waiting on the email

7 things that decide whether your seed tray makes it. The mix, the watering, the dome lid, and the reason your seedlings are getting long and floppy. Written out so you can go back to it.

10 things I am planting this month. What goes in trays, what goes straight in the ground, and what I am skipping this season.

When you are ready for more

The Florida Grow List. If the free guide gets you started, the book is the whole thing. 50+ plants that hold up in this climate, with the month to put each one in the ground. Signed, and we pack them ourselves.

The seed starting supplies. Trays, dome lids, Black Gold seed starting mix and the seed varieties I actually plant here, all on my Amazon storefront under Seed Starting for Florida.

The channel. New videos. Real garden, real mistakes, real harvests.