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Creating a Raised Bed Florida Vegetable Garden
If you plan on growing vegetables in the ground in South Florida, you can run into many challenges. Soil conditions may make it difficult to dig because of limestone rock (which is used to create the land we live on since it all was originally swamp). I found this to be the case in my…
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Don’t Miss Kanapaha Botanical Gardens
If you are in the Gainseville, FL area (Maybe for a UF football game or just passing through on a road trip), make sure to put Kanapaha Botanical Gardens on your list. The Gardens are on a 68 acre non profit facility made up of 24 major collections which are all visually accessible from a…
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Looking for a Florida Gardening Professional?
If you are looking to hire a Garden or Landscape Professional you have found the place. Gardening can be a fantastic hobby, relaxation technique or even a source of food and pride for yourself. But there are times when a professional is needed. It never hurts to look for resources yourself, but if a job…
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Getting Started with a Florida Garden
Gardening in Florida is not as simple as you would think. With the warm climate, we do have year-round opportunities for growing many different types of fruits and vegetables. It can be fun, frustrating, hot, but overall very rewarding. Much of the information available about gardening on the web doesn’t always apply to a Florida…
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Visit Viscaya Museum and Gardens
The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is a step back in time. Don’t miss the Gilded Age estate on Biscayne Bay surrounded by ten acres of formal gardens, a mangrove shoreline and rockland hammock. It was built in 1914 and finished in 1922 by businessman and conservationist James Deering, The mansion is set on a full 50-acre…
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Plenty to post but have not gotten started yet
Well, we have been quite busy around the house, but the garden is underway. Unfortunately, I have not been posting anything about the progress. Fortunately, I have been taking photos of the the process as we have been moving forward. I did miss a couple days of the site prep, but I have plenty photos…
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Starting our Florida Winter Garden 2012
After last year’s garden, and the complications that came with it. We evaluated several different options for planting. After a little consideration, we decided to stick with the same layout as last year. Partially because it fits the best spot in the yard for sun vs. shade and also we do not want to make…
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Getting ready to plan out the new garden layout
Well it is getting closer to our planting season and we still have to work out where our small garden will be placed this year as well as what actual crops are going to be planted. The compost is coming along fine, but seems to have an abundance of twigs. This must have been from…
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Blog registered and installed
Well, we registered the domain name a few months ago but just got around to allocating some disk space and installing WordPress to host the site this weekend. As I sat inside the house awaiting Tropical Storm Isaac, which did nothing more than knock over a few bannana trees in the back yard, I decided…