Hi, Frank. Two good resources: The U of F planting guide:

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/vh021

and growables.org.

Frank, the FL Vegetable Growing Guide that writersblock recommended is an excellent place to start. It's very comprehensive.

As far south as you are, you don't have much time to grow anything before "summer," which starts around the end of April in your area.

There are a lot of tropical veggies you can grow in the summer, like Pigeon Pea, Malabar spinach, amaranth, chaya and some of the ornamental root crops. Summer crops are southern peas, okra, sweet potatoes, lima or butter beans, cherry tomatoes (regular tomatoes we grow in the winter), and eggplant. If you like the look of elephant ears, you can grow eddoe, malanga and xanthasoma for the roots and leaves. You can also grow edible gingers like kitchen ginger and turmeric.

How much space do you have? There are a lot of tropical fruits you can grow, and trees with edible leaves, like moringa. Sweet potato leaves are edible (not the ornamental kind, the grocery store kind) and are very delicious.

I could go on and on about edible ornamentals, but that's another subject.

The time is approaching when marine algae would be a good choice.

Embothrium -- LOL I know what you mean. Miami is in big trouble if that glacier in the Antarctic collapses. I keep telling people I need to buy a house here on the west side of Gainesville, because we'll have waterfront property soon.

I second Floridata.com and also floridagardener.com.

Lower income neighborhoods on higher ground in Miami are being gentrified by people already fleeing the developing danger at the beach. Meanwhile the aquifer has sunk below see level, is being fouled by sea water coming in from the sides. Millions are being spent on replacement of downtown streets that have fallen into sinkholes there. With this expensive work estimated to be good for only something like 10 years!

Most of our major cities are at sea level. And that's the case worldwide. I guess that's because big industry needed access to waterways and ports. I'll be in trouble here in St. Pete too. But I live at the highest elevation in my city so my yard will be one of the last ones going under. I'd have a little island garden for a moment in time hehe.

I hate gentrification. The lower income people keep getting pushed further and further out of town, or else the gentrification doesn't work, and the owners end up renting out their houses, so you have a community with some nice houses and some run-down houses.

As for Miami, I will recount what I heard someone say after Isle of Palms, SC was blown away by Hugo. "If God wants his sandbox back, he can have it. I'm going to higher ground."

So now the rich beachfront owners run the lower income people out, and soon, there will be nowhere for them to go, just like in SF, when it all got gentrified. Now it has a serious homeless problem in neighborhoods with homes they can no longer afford to live in.

When are the rich going to realize that they need all sorts of people to make a viable community. I remember when Naples was desperate because they couldn't get anyone to work at the stores in Naples, because they couldn't afford to live there. The closest affordable place to llive was 30 miles inland. Convenience stores and restaurants were closing down. They were forced to create "affordable housing." What is affordable to a rich person? $900/month for a 1/br apartment. This was many years ago, but even now, who do you know working at a convenience store for minimum wage that can afford $900 for an apartment? I don't know how they ever worked it out.

They can drain the swamp but they can't drain the ocean. Hey we can build arks and grow our maters and citrus etc on the deck and grill fish on the barbie- solar style..find a way to make some wine and catch rainwater and oh yeah, get a desalinator. Its all good lol!

Wait - how does this topic swerve apply to the original request?

Facebook has a lot of useful groups for gardening. 'South Florida gardening group' , 'South Florida vegetable gardening' 'South Florida edible gardening and sustainable living', 'Garden club of south Florida' etc. etc. There's even city specific Facebook gardening groups like 'St. Petersburg plant society' where we have meet ups and plant swaps.