Good deal. One of my favorite things about florida gardening is the ease of brassica production - no cabbage moth. Also no colorado potato beetle, so get some taters in the ground next month!

Guess I'd better start thinking about doing it too.
It's just been too hot to think about vegetable garden prep so far.
A couple of brassicas I really enjoy are baby bok choy (pak choi) and chinese cabbage. You get a lot of bang for your buck compared to broccoli. I wouldn't even start them til October though. They hate heat and grow very fast in cooler weather.
Another that surprised me last year was daikon. Did very well.

rdean, what are you growing?

before i left on a business trip on the 9th, i started a bunch of cukes, some corn, and a ton of tomatoes. i came home on friday morning, spent the day in the office, then spent all morning today ripping everything out of my veg garden (except some pepper plants), putting down about 100 pounds of compost from my bin, a layer of newspaper, then a bunch of pine needles.

since it's been SO DRY, i also finally got around to running my micro-spray sprinkler system to cover my entire veg garden -- with emitters for every square-foot section that i can adjust or turn off.

i planted the corn in little dixie cups, which i put into lager plastic cups. it worked out very well -- i just pulled the bottom of the dixie cup off & stuck it into the mulch.

i put in the corn today, among my southern peas to give them some shade. i'll probably stick the cukes and tomatoes out next weekend, unless the weather forecast says it'll be too hot.

I planted everything in "nine packs" that I saved from previous years. Let's see, I planted:

2 cauliflower
2 cabbage
1 tomatoes (Celebrity)
1 cucs
1 yellow squash

Will put out the cabbage and cauliflower in 6 - 8 weeks. The others will go out as soon as they are able.

I want to plant some broccoli but they are on backorder from Parks. :-(

i gotta say, broc takes up SO MUCH ROOM and takes so long... it's a lot of fun to grow, but there are other brassica that are just as tasty & produce WAY MORE. i grew rappini (aka rabe, broccoli rabe) last year -- produced so much more in so much less space. also -- tho broc is really easy to grow, it's one of the few plants that i will buy as a plant (seedling) from the bigbox down the street. they take an awful long time to produce, and buying them already started cuts 3-4 weeks.

so, maybe, it's not so bad that your broc seeds were on backorder...

Well, I caved. I saw some beautiful zuccini seedlings at HD last week and had to get them! My tomato seedlings are still on the windowsill, treefrog. It's just been way too hot outside for them, but I know I got to get them out of the house soon!

Unbelievably, the cabbage seeds I planted two days ago have already sprouted!!