I have my leftover tomatoes, eggplants, okra, bell peppers and zuccini from spring-summer garden still hanging in there, in varying states of health.
For fall I planted cabbages, collards, broccoli & cauliflower - then promptly murdered them with a dosing of Malathion I mixed wrong :(

Now I have (most brand new, some older) broccoli, turnip greens, red beets, blue kale, red rhubarb chard, and a few herbs. (And I recently traded in the Malathion for ladybugs, so hopefully some of my new veggies will actually live!)

Here's a slideshow of what's going on, veg and fruit-wise, in my garden. Check out the winter squash!

Here is a link that might be useful: goings on in the garden...

Oh, AIMA, your veggies look great; and what a variety! I've decided if I screw up and manage to kill another row of greens, I'm gonna just start hauling a harvesting basket over to your house! :)

how are your beets doing, karen? mine resolutely refuse to germinate! argh!

i kill as many as i succeed with... so i just plant a ton of stuff and hope half of it comes up.

isn't that squash crazy? it's got fruit all over it. more acorn squash than butternut, but very tasty and totally pest resistant. it just appeared in my garden in august, and i let it grow out of curiosity... it might be a seminole pumpkin (i ate some last year), or a cross from a butternut squash we ate during the summer... who knows? i'm saving seeds. the only drawback is it tends to get everywhere.

Bless your heart, AIMA, most of the guys I know have to be bribed to eat ANY vegetable - much less MYSTERY vegetables!

I bought Detroit Red beets, and it's true - the first patch I planted in the last week of September, I'd say only about one-third of the seeds sprouted. I bought another packet of seeds and just sprinkled it all around the "bald" patches about 2-3 weeks ago, and those newer seedlings seem to have ALL sprouted. I have no idea what I did differently, the soil and the brand of seed is the same: maybe it's because of the slightly cooler weather for round two? Beets me :)

I'm gonna wait awhile to thin them out; partly because I'm growing them more for greens than roots, and partly because I'm still not confident they'll all hang in there.

Karen, Were you spraying to kill caterpillars? BT ( organic/safe for beneficial bugs, humans, etc.), works great for that; sold as Thuricide at Home Depot and Ace.

an_ill-mannered_ache, Fantastic slide show and your veggies look great. Would you be willing to share some of those squash seeds?

Ache, that snake plant looks just like a snake crawling up the bush. I never saw one of these nor even heard of em, I need to look this up.

Nice presentation.

Tony

Ache.. Snake Plant as in Mother in laws tongue?

I dont see that, It looks like a black snake climbing up the plant.

Do you have another pic of this plant? It jump back 10 feet if I saw a snake like that in my plant.

Am I missing something?

Tony

tony, dude... it's a joke. it's a knockout rose with a black racer hanging from it... i found it hanging out there the first cold morning we had -- it had the most sun in the yard, and this little juvie racer was hanging there like... well, like fruit! (or, did you get the joke, and it's ME being too literal?)

and -- i'm happy to send anyone some squash seeds (and other seed goodies) -- just drop me an email with address:
centralfloridagardener atty thing gmail dotty thing com.

it's a remarkably vigorous squash...

Ache,

hello, my name is Tony and yes I was fooled by your joke pic even after googling the snots out of snake plant fruit.

you got me good !

Ache,

hello, my name is Tony and yes I was fooled by your joke pic even after googling the snots out of snake plant fruit.

you got me good !

My veggies aren't doing too good. Better Boy tomato plants look okay, for the most part, but so far have set little fruit (because of the heat?). They seem to be starting to set a lot of fruit now that the temps have gone down.

My summer solarization failed. I had to pull up three raised bed plantings, replant in other areas.

My peppers seem to have every disease possible, but are somehow surviving.

Worms are eating my collards (I've just begun spraying them with BT though, so maybe things will improve.)

Snails everywhere, chewing up everything. But I'm using snail bait that's supposed to be safe (iron something or other is the main incredient) and it seems to be doing the trick.

Envious Bill

I've got some tomatoes going, carrots, peppers and tons of herbs going. I don't think the tomatoes are getting enough sun now :( Other than that everything looks all right.

Lettuce, peas, and swiss chard will go in this weekend if there's time. I think I have some nasturtium seeds that I'm going to try out too.

Ill-mannered-ache, nice slide show! I love your blog too. Very useful info. I emailed you about your squash seeds :)

Wendy

My veggies are doing okay.

Floradel tomatos are big and vigorous. But blight may be setting in on the lower branches. Lot of fruit though. But, I first few red tomatos were quit bland in flavor. Anyone else have comments on the taste of floradels?

Peppers - I am growing Thai hot, bananas, Red frying peppers, bell peppers, jalaps, frigatellis, and pepperocinis. I had to pull one banana plant, other than that they are doing great! Pickling 5 or 6 pints each weekend!

Peas, carrots, cabbage, kohlrabi, spinach, lettuce. All planted a few weeks ago. They are looking good so far. Spraying them with BT to keep the worms away.

Cukes - Just planted a new crop, the other crop was DESTROYED by pickle worms.

overall I am happy with my first year of gardening in Florida. I have a long way to go, but I am learning!

My tomatoes are doing awesome. Lots of baby maters and still tons of flowers. I have tons of blooms on both my pumpkins and birdhouse gourds, but no fruit set yet. Jan said I have all male flowers and no females. How do I get female flowers? I cannot believe I got these vines with tons of flowers and not a veg in site.

cindee,
you have to wait for the female flowers, and even then, they'll drop the fruits until the conditions are right. it's enraging, but it's how they work. i've harvested two winter squash, and have another handful on the way... and, right now, the ratio of male to female flowers is probably 25 to one.

$(%*&^$%*% the pickleworm!