Grow
Sandy soil, a planting calendar that runs backwards from everywhere else, and a summer that undoes half your work. Florida is its own thing. Here's how I work with it.
In the garden right now
What's going in the ground, what's producing, and what I'm losing. Written for Zone 10a and updated as the season turns. Start here if you want to know what to do this weekend.
Everything I've written down
The whole In the Garden archive. Pests, soil, what died and why, the plants nobody warns you about. Sorted newest first so you can just keep scrolling.
The videos
Garden tours, problems solved on camera, and the newest upload playing at the top. If you'd rather watch me do it than read about it, this is your page.
The free Florida plant guide
What to plant this month and what to leave alone until fall. No card, just an email. It's the thing I wish somebody had handed me the first year.
You are going to kill some plants. Everybody does, including me, including this year. The trick is losing them faster than you get discouraged, and writing down what happened so the next one lives. You're not a real gardener until you've lost a few.
See what's happening this season