Enjoying Lots of lettuce thanks to cool weather. Romaine are standing like fat soldiers,Simpsons have kept us in plenty of salads and I have replanted more with a mix of reds and mesclun.
Gifford onions(an Indian River newcomer) have been multiplying and giving us lots of tasty green onions
Tomatoes yummy but I think may have scab now. Radishes have been great! My corn is up a half a foot and beans are in flower.Watermelon and squash not so good but maybe theyll
perk up in the warmer weather. Potatoes looking GOOD!

Broccoli loved the cold!!!! Turnips did very well. Carrots good. Lots of onions. Beets did good but looks like I didn't plant nearly enough of them. Spinach did good. Kohlrabi has been wonderful. Some of my Giant kohlrabi seems to actually be cabbage though? curly Kale looking very nice! Snow peas have done well though the cold knocked them back a bit but it is flowering again. The freeze did set the potatoes back but the plants that survived have put on new growth. Parsnips are doing ok even though this isn't the best climate for them. got lots and lots of lettuce going and garlic comming along.

I did sew more carrot, turnip, snow peas and lettuce though I have also started planting the warm weather crops like squash, zucchini, cucumbers, pumpkins, tomatoes, and others.

Wow, goldenpond, you're much more ambitious than I. I was excited to have three different kinds of plants. I doubt I'll ever be able to grow corn where I am...the soil's too sandy.

I'm pondering carrots for next winter. Tclynx, did you grow them from seed? Did you buy them at Home Depot?

I'm loving the leafy greens. They're so attractive and they're edible. Do you think a second batch would make it into the spring? I'd like to plant some more as a border in a couple of places...

I took a hard hit from the freeze. At the time I had two tomato plants (husky cherry and sweet 100) that were covered with green tomatoes just about ready to ripen. They were almost completely destroyed, but I trimmed off the dead growth and now they are full of leaves again. I am seeing a couple of flowers too so I am hoping another chance for fruit is on the way. I have been enjoying buttercrunch lettuce for about 4 months now, but the last of them are bolting now. They weren't really damaged by the freeze, but it seems like that triggered the bolting (although I have heard that it happens from the heat?). My other plants died (summer types like peppers, zucchini, and cucumbers). I am now starting spinach and swiss chard which I am really excited about. I am also growing several herbs which are doing great (rosemary, dill, cilantro, oregano, and basil). Since the last of my my buttercrunch is bolting, I have planted romaine in place of the ones that were pulled. I am also planting new peppers (bell, jalapeno, Thai hot), and a zucchini and crookneck squash. Good luck gardeners!

I planted 100 head of Texas Granex onion 3 weeks ago and they are doing good. I have a 3X8 ft. tomato bed that got the vapam treatment and are ready to receive some non-descript beef steak plus some sweet 100s. I beleive there is a difference between sweet 100s,1000s,millions. I like 100s the best. I have left over Calif. wonder with some small replacenents.I also have
about 50 snap dragons that have been hanging around since Nov. some are 3 ft. long and laying on the ground but perking up now. I have a 10x20 ft spot that is just now geting sun as the Royal Poinciana has lost its canopy and the sun is higher in the sky. I may devote this area corn or okra maybe both.
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I planted a lot of dent corn from seed that grew here (central fla) last year. Not up yet. We've had some grits from last year's ears, though, very tasty. I was pleased to learn that dent will produce and cure up here in the summer heat and humidity, in fact the florida-cured ears are much harder than the ones of the same variety that I grew and cured in Mass. And that was without irrigation.

I sowed amaranth which is just coming up, a heat-lover that should do great. It will serve young as a substitute for spinach which hasn't been doing well here, and as a weed-smotherer and decoration later on. Planted seminole pumpkins which did spectacularly last year. Also mustard, carrots, radishes, sweet-potatoes (small tubers from last year's very little crop in some raised beds of year-old rotted sod piles), irish potatoes, early jersey cabbage, lettuce, beans.

--Tomncath's cauliflower hasn't flowered. It's just leaves. Does it need fertilizer? Should I give up on it?

I still have not tried the Veronica yet so I sure can't tell you. It's supposed to tolerate heat so maybe we've been too cold....

Thanks tomncath. The cauli is in a *slightly* shadier part of the garden, so I'll just keep it in there and see what happens. That buttercrunch lettuce is gorgeous! I can't wait to make a big old salad with it!

My carrots were from seed, carrots are not something that transplants well so you need to sew them where they can grow. They take a long time to germinate and the seedlings are very tiny. I like to plant the seeds along a soaker or dripper hose so I know they have a chance, I just sprinkle them on the surface right along the hose. I do the same thing with turnips but it seems they all germinate and do it quickly compared to carrots.

As far as more greens this season, perhaps if we are lucky. Tomorrow is supposed to be cooler and rainy and a good day for planting above ground crops so get out there and plant what you can of greens before it's too late. Tasoi is supposed to be pretty good at resisting bolting in the heat though I notice that the freezes seem to have caused most of my earlier season tasoi to bolt. You could probably also plant some turnips for the greens since they grow so fast you should at least have some for salads before the heat sets in too bad.

As far as corn, it actually does ok in sandy soil provided you have enough irrigation and fertilizer for it. I am stingy though and corn has not done well for me here though my dad used to grow great corn up in sandy north west Michigan. I'm unwilling to spray nasty chemicals around my yard so I have trouble keeping ahead of certain pests so my corn has not been worth my time. We are right near Zellwood so we can get really good sweet corn in season so my effort will go to other things.

tclynx, thanks. I'll try some more of my mesclun and just see what happens. The $1.25 packet of seeds has already more than paid for itself, so it won't be a great shame if I lose a second round of plants. The lettuce and spinach have actually spread to nearby parts of my yard, so they seem pretty tough.

As for corn, I've never tried it anywhere I've lived. It always seemed so high maintenance and I'm definitely a JV vegetable gardener. I'd be lost without the advice I get here!