Should get the planner. Planted seeds and forgot to note down what I planted, where… yeah, I don’t remember. It’ll be a surprise garden. 😂

@KNC298

5 ай бұрын

I do the same thing ... makes things FUN!

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

LOL! I’ve been there. Bit by bit we get better… or not. 😂

@sarahbhutta251

5 ай бұрын

@@WildFloridian just ordered the planner and book. Hoping for a more successful and organized 2024.

Bottlebrush trees are also an excellent perennial plant for pollinators. Blooms many times a year, hummingbirds and bees love it. Super underrated for what it offers and being so easy to grow in florida.

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Good to know!

The dog derping around in the background cracks me up 😂

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Ms. Shiloh loves goofing in the garden. LOL

Harvesting herbs and making herb compound butters to put in the freezer. Enjoying bug free lettuce, greens, cabbage, and broccolli. Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Way to go Nancy!!!

All my questions answered in an entertaining and informative 16 minutes. And much additional info as well. Thank you.

I so appreciate this information. This will be my 3rd season gardening in Florida. I realized last year that the seed packaging plant times are way off for central Florida

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Best of luck in the new year ☺️ Yes those timings can be waaaaay off! Hopefully this video and each months guide give you more success!

@s.montgomery2714

5 ай бұрын

@@WildFloridian Thank you

Happy New Year! Your native plant series inspired me so much that I bought your 2024 Planner and can't wait to plan and plant. I live in St. Pete too, so I feel like I'm learning from a neighbor! We've been in this house for 30+ years, and I've had so many different plants and trees, but since COVID, I've been slowly transforming my garden to natives to attract more butterflies and bees. Thanks in advance for all your help! I hope 2024 is fantastic. 🙂

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!!!! 🎉 I’m so excited for you! If you are free and want to learn more about natives, you should check out Plantapalooza on January 13th. It’s in St. Pete and most of the local native nurseries will be there. Cheers and happy gardening!

@Rachel5280

5 ай бұрын

Im in St Pete andI had a hard time finding info on PlantaPalooza... is it Jan 13 or Feb 24?

@conniecrites5148

5 ай бұрын

@@Rachel5280 It's Jan. 13th

The tomato that was my winner last year was Sun gold- amazing producer and delicious. This is my first year for successful larger tomatoes. My varieties are Floridade, Florida 91, 4th of July (just blooming now), Roma and Amish paste. They are almost ripened- hopefully they will be picked before any frosty days in early Feb. Thanks for the reminders to start peppers now!

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Thank you Robin! I'll have to check out those varieties. I haven't tried Florida 91, Floridade, and Amish before.

I received your planner as a Christmas gift - it’s so beautiful I haven’t written in it … yet! Will be adding some of your recommendations from this video! Thank you.

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

I’m so happy you like the planner!!! 🥰

Thank you for all this information. Vegetable gardening intimidates me. What is one of the easiest things to grow?

This is awesome since I'm new to FL gardening. I hope you do each month so I can keep records of what to plant. Love your channel

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

I will definitely be the gardening guide each month ☺️

Omgeee I feel validated Cilantro has always evaded me. 😅

Thanks for keeping us up to date🪴

Fantastic video! Such a helpful guide for winter gardening.

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

So nice of you! :D

Happy New Year!!! Great list of plants and gardening tips!

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!!! Wishing you the best my KZread neighbor.

Happy New Year 🎉 to you and Family

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!!!!

Love my planner!

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Yay! I'm so glad you like it! And thank you for joining the members community! Let me know if you have questions. I make videos to answer members questions. :D

YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!!! Thank you so much for all your info you know so much!!!! Thank you for sharing everything you do. My a garden improve so much thank to you, I have around 75% of natives, butterflies and birds are so happy. Happy new year to you all the best to you🥂☺️🎶❤️

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

🥳 Happy New Year 🥰 🥂

My everglades tomatoes never took off ,,,were taken over by weeds😮,,but now i have tomatoe seedlings popping in the area ,,,,maybe they left some seeds

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Looks like they did. Those ones will take off!

I am harvesting crazy amounts of Broccoli here in Fort Myers Fl. Tomatoes are producing heavily and I just planted seeds for my canning tomatoes (Tachi paste). First crop of beets are sprouting up. Mulching and organic fertilizer are my friends.

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Way to go!!! You are a gardening rock star ⭐️

Love your channel

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

This is such an amazing resource. Thank you!!

@10harveyp3

5 ай бұрын

I already have wood chips down. Should I just put compost down over the top of the chips?

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Not over the chips. Wood chips take about 3 months to 9 months to become available for veggies in Florida. So you may not need to add anything. If you were going to add compost, pull back the mulch near the plant, add the compost, and then push the mulch over. That way the yummies for the plant can get to the roots faster.

I think I'm going to give it a try... There is something about cedar that repels insects so I'll give it a try on one bed and see what happens... Wonderful channel and thank you!!!

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

I would love to hear how it goes. Fingers crossed 🤞

I just found a plant called Garlic Vine. It's actually a false garlic but completely safe to eat. I just ordered one, I'm hoping to plant it in my butterflies garden. Zone was 9A now 9B

@SouthernLatitudesFL

5 ай бұрын

My friend has Garlic vibe and it tastes just like Garlic! You won't be disappointed.

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Very neat!!!! I've never heard of that. Thank you for sharing Dani!

We found another nursery, the other day, that carries natives in Pinellas Park. Island Bamboo, it is off of 66th.

@charlesfarley3299

5 ай бұрын

I bought a rouge plant there, buttonbush sage, and blue mistflower. The rouge plant had an earthworm in it, that is hopefully tunneling around happily in my soil. I hope it makes more worms as well. 😀

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing Charles!

I am learning so much from your channel! Thank you. I’m doing away with a grass lawn and watched your video about frog fruit. I have been searching for plants and even frog fruit seeds. I live in Florida, zone 10 and I can’t find it available anywhere! Is there another ground cover that’s easier to find? I ended up purchasing mazus. I planted 25 plants and just realized it’s recommended for up to zone 9. 😮. I planted culantro instead of cilantro, and it tastes the same but it grow and spreads all temperatures..

What about spinach? I’m across the bay from you! I’m in Riverview so I use your videos as a reference!

Great info! Did you start your lettuces from seed?

I'm in Pasco and a pretty new gardener. I tried a few yrs ago with some raised beds and bucket planters. Tomatoes, peppers and eggplant did great. I was really hoping to get zucchini and summer squash but stink bugs killed them and then got my tomatoes! Trying again this year and really hoping for success! Any tips for those dang stink bugs?

When would you say would be the best time to direct sow corn in north Florida? Or transplanting from cup to ground?

Thank you for specifying which species of each plant to buy for best success here in Florida. do you have some recommendations of where to purchase good seeds? I believe my failure during this past fall season. Had to do with the seeds that I already had. Because I had poor germination. I did have some things grow but many things did not even germinate.

What is meant by the cut and come method? Mentioned around 4:00 minute mark

My firebush has perked right up. Thank you. I'm slowly trying to get more and more native plants in my yard. Your planner is helping with that.😊

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Yay!!!! I'm glad. First time I've mailed a living plant. I was super worried about how to ship it so that it didn't croak. Once it gets to March, it will start to really grow... and then summer... be preppared. :D

Good afternoon, what kind of soil do you use to fill your raised beds? I hope you’re having a great day

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Some came from a local company as recommended by a fellow Wild Floridian community member. Some is just bagged stuff from Home Depot. Miracle Grow and some other brand.

Sorry to ask such a newbie question but here goes…How do you “refresh” your raised bed? Do you refresh while plants are still growing/producing or wait til they are done and beds are empty? And what do you use?

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Good question! ☺️ you can refresh the soil by adding slow release amendments on top of the soil near your plants or liquid amendments and water them in so your plants grab the nutrients as they go by.

In reference to the Seminole pumpkins, I’m assuming that they do well in our sandy soil? Any need to make any amendments prior to planting? Thanks.

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

I would add some compost to get them going.

Can I grow White Half runner green beans in Sumter county?

What are your thoughts on using cedar shavings as top mulch to repel some of the buggage? I bought a bail from Rural King and I'm wondering if I am doing more harm than good but I haven't found much information for using it on raised beds...

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

I have no opinions one way or the other since I haven't worked with Cedar. But wood shavings will probably attract millipedes which eat wood and some level of termites. Termites are always in our gardens in the south. And millipedes act like earth worms in the tropics. So at a minimum I can say the millipedes will help turn the wood into future fertilizer for your plants. Beyond that I'm not sure what it will do to deter pests. Worth a try.

It’s very cold now the things you are suggesting are hard to think they will be ok,sown outside. Peppers and herbs. Do you really think it’s not to cold for them outside

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Depends where you live and you’ll want to double check the forecast. But zone 10s can definitely get peppers started. I have some sprouting now.

I can’t find your post about plants Paloma I screened shot it and sent to the wife, 16th 9am??? Thanks

@brooktrout1477

5 ай бұрын

Plantapaloza

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Here you go Plantapolooza II Saturday, January 13 11:00 am 5901 13th Ave N St. Petersburg, FL 33710

@brooktrout1477

5 ай бұрын

@@WildFloridian thank you

Question. There is a grandfather and his granddaughter that grow a field of elephant garlic every year in Southern Marion county. I believe they plant in the fall. One person told me they mulch it . Do you know about growing garlic ?

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

I do not have any substantial experience. But Petrina, my buddy, grows garlic. Check her out on her channel Homegrown Florida.

@nspowers7130

5 ай бұрын

@@WildFloridian excellent. Thank you very much

Am I ok to put my tomatoes, peppers, cukes and zucchini out in the garden now? I’m in Pinellas also, in Seminole. Just got my second bed and I’m ready to get them out there 😂

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Yeppers! Just be ready to do a little cold weather care if we get too cold.

@georginablumel2852

5 ай бұрын

@@WildFloridian thank you so much! My bed is almost finished!

What flower seeds can I start? I’m in north Florida, panhandle 9b. I have your planner, but it doesn’t talk about seed flower planting 😢

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

For native flowers, in ground is fall. But in general you can start them by seed in containers.

@jenborn5358

5 ай бұрын

@@WildFloridianthank you 😊 So any seeds like zinnias?

So I have a wuestion. I got some beach sunflower from a local nursery in St. Pete. After the heavy rainfall this week it is developing (or possibly already had but it's now coming out) the sunflower rust. It already has blossomed for the first time, but I am wondering in your experience if you have ever dealt with it and what I should do going forward. I don't want to spray it with anything, if you have a natural alternative that would be great. I did read that it affects sunflower plants only so the porterweed and firebush, which are looking good, should be fine. So if anyone reads this comment and knows what to do, thanks in advance. I thought because it's native it would be fine but it appears all sunflowers are prone to this if they were grown commercially and if the conditions are right, like the heavy rainfall we had.

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

I’m not familiar with it but hopefully someone does. I find with the native plants that they tend to be really resilient.

Where can I get seed potatoes? Baker Creek is sold out.

@user-xh5ow5yz6l

5 ай бұрын

cut up some old potatoes and put them in the ground i just planted some seed potatoes i've been getting going for a while they are doing great!

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Look for organic potatoes to ensure they don't have the coating on them that surpresses sprouting. Sometime Publix will have organic potatoes, but also look at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, sometimes Walmart. Also online check Southern Exposure.

@charlesfarley3299

5 ай бұрын

We took the baby potatoes we bought at trader joes and just planted them in the ground and they were happy as a clam. they made some more baby potatoes.

I am absolutely curious to know why the hell we didn't have a fall this year I live in zone 9B I have tomatoes growing and peppers growing in January as if it was the springtime WTF is going on is this the whole green New deal bulshit are we now being sprayed with fertilizers to keep all these plants alive or did I end up with some kind of winterized hybrid tomatoes and peppers?

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Maybe

@dontbea7237

5 ай бұрын

Quite literally none of the trees in my yard went through a fall except a few mulberries all the scrub everything looks like it's springtime or summer time buy now my snake yard long green beans are totally browned out wiped out and the question usually comes to mind whether I should just take the trellis and burn it being that it's made out of cattle panels to clean it up or just let it rot back for the next time but no not this time the plants are fully all the way to the top and I cut three panels in half and made two three-sided triangular towers and they're both green and growing just haven't got any more beans from them not to mention that but since when does the Moon make a 🙂 or a ☹️ for all of my existence here prior to a few years ago of realizing it the moon has always been a crescent either facing left or right but I've never seen it look like a frown or a or at least pre 2020 is when I really started to notice it where is the one who pointed it out to me says it's been since 2010 that are moon has been rolling in the night sky