What are the grow season in Florida ? A transplanted Yankee save :
“ We have purchase a house in central Florida , and I was hoping you could give me a quick overview on the season in Florida . I have read your booksTotally Crazy Easy Florida GardeningandCreate Your Own Florida Food Forestand am plan on set out a intellectual nourishment forest . But being from the magnetic north the season are confusing to me . ”
Good interrogative sentence . If you ’re not used to Florida , it is puzzling . You have to dismiss what the ejaculate packets say and learn to tramp with the climate , otherwise you ’re doomed to repeated horticulture failure .
Trust me . If you plant cabbage source according to the packet where it sound out “ Plant in April after all peril of frost , ” you wo n’t get lettuce . The summertime and the hemipteran will guarantee that .
Central and North Florida’s Two Growing Seasons
Central and North Florida have two master growing season : spring and downslope . Not summer . The month of June , July , August and September are not good horticulture month . There are a few things that will live , but it ’s not your main gardening season like up northward . Not at all !
Spring
Your spring planting season is basically February , March and the beginning of April . Everything except sweet Irish potato and Hibiscus esculentus should be in the soil before April , though .
My 2015 garden in February : beets coming up down the middle of a bed between fall - planted daikons :
Brassicas like cabbage , Brassica oleracea italica , mustard , etc . , should be plant in February .
Pumpkins , tomatoes , peppers , attic , corn , etc . , should be implant near the rootage of March . ( Tomato transplantation should be implant , not seed , because you do n’t have enough time for them to mature before the heat and bugs otherwise . )
Once things get spicy , most of these plants fail to thrive and will go to seed , flunk to germinate , go bad to pollinate , etc . , and wo n’t give you much , if any yield . The in the first place you could get things in the ground , the better . Sometimes this means having stuff killed by a previous icing .
When you hit the showtime of April , you may found sweet Irish potato , lady’s-finger , Southern pea , true yam plant and snake beans , but there is n’t much you may constitute after that .
Fall
At the end of September and the beginning of October , you’re able to plant another round of drinks of garden plant . Usually we wo n’t get a frost until January , so you have time . Brassicas do well in the decline , as do hot capsicum , though I have n’t had luck with pumpkins , potatoes or tomatoes . Often , your Brassica grow right through the wintertime quite happily , stick out into spring . I ’ve planted cabbages in November and harvested them in March .
increase slows down in the nerveless weather but the plant do n’t die .
But South Florida is Different!
South Florida ’s veg grow season is basically from October through March . There are two primary seasons there as well : the cool dry time of year and the blistering crocked season . The latter is hunky-dory for tropic tree and plant but not great for regular garden crop . You get one master veggie time of year and it ’s from free fall into other spring .
If you desire more specific dates for planting various crops in North , Central and South Florida , UF’sFlorida Vegetable Gardening Guideis very utile .
Also , as I drop a line inTotally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening , the easy way to succeed in Florida gardening is to set the plants that love to grow in our unique climate .
