This is not actually Winter Veg, it’s Muhly Grass growing next to the Winter Veg and hard to resist.
Here is the Winter Vegetable Garden, the first half just coming up. It is too hot in South Florida in summer for many vegetables to pollinate. I have Tomatoes, Snow Peas, Radishes, Carrots, Green Beans and Cilantro.
Papayas. I have Avocado and Lime trees in the garden, if they were old enough they would have fruit at this time of year. Two years to go on those trees, it takes five years from seed.
The Pineapple patch, no pineapples yet. And the feature dead solar pathway light.
More seeds coming up, Cactus Zinnias, Winter Flowers not Veg.
The seeds. The most irksome thing, the Cosmos seeds didn’t come up.
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Looking good. I put in my lettuce garden. How long does it take to get a pineapple?
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I am waiting for cooler weather on the lettuce. 88 today! Pineapples take 3 or 4 years. Haven’t had any fruit from those yet.
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Very healthy looking seedlings! The papaya looks very appetising but does it take a long time to ripen on the tree? Interesting Six.
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Thanks, it takes a couple of months for them to grow and ripen, they end up about a foot long. These are Mexican Papayas.
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That looks like a pawpaw tree – lucky you!
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It does, they are a lot bigger than Pawpaws.
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I don’t know paw paw, but I wouldn’t expect it to look like that. It happens to be one of the fruit trees I want to grow here. They are not native for us.
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Paw paws are native here and look like a smaller version of these Papayas but taste very different.Check out sowexotic.com for funky grape varieties you might be interestedin,they might have Pawpaws.
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Thank you. When I grow pawpaw, I want to grow them from seed, like they are in the wild. That is how I did my persimmon from Oklahoma.
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They have muscadines!
(I will still get seed.)
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You must be excited as your gardening season begins in earnest. Love those little zinnias, promising great things to come!
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Yes! it is still hot here but the vegetables like it.
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The Muhly Grass is very pretty. I need to add a few more grasses to the garden.
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Thank you, a rare grass that flourishes in my garden.
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Lovely grass. Wonderful to grow your own papaya.
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Thanks.Liz. The Muhly is my favorite grass. I am looking forward to eating Papayas.
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Wishing you a bountiful crop from your vegetable garden. What kind of tomatoes are you growing?
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Thanks, Karen. I have Husky Cherry tomatoes right now, Sweet 100 and Yellow Pear are my favorites but I haven’t found any plants yet and waited too late on the seeds. Though, I may start some seed for a second crop. We are having great tomato weather.
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Thank goodness it is finally not as hot. Good luck with the tomatoes…I used to grow sweet 100’s in New England, they were like candy.
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I want 10 degrees cooler and the Sweet 💯
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I really like your thinking…me too. 😊
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Well how wonderful to have the promise of papaya and avocados even if other veg don’t germinate well.
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Yes, my fingers are crossed that I get to eat the Papayas and not the birds and squirrels.
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This is so interesting – I would never have guessed it would be too hot in Florida to grow beans & tomatoes. Definitely not what I think of as winter veg. Love that grass, too.
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Thanks, also too hot for corn in summer! I thought that was really crazy when I first moved down here. Winter corn is great.
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How are pineapples planted? Do they come in six packs like other vegetable plants?
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No, pineapples are bromeliads and grown from offsets I usually root the crown of a pineapple i have eaten in sand and plant it.
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So after rooted, it blooms and then makes pups, or does it make pups first?
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Blooms makes pineapple then pups.
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