i'll just have to try and have a strong crop of tomatoes next
season. After all, it is a bit late to get them started again now,
right? I do live in florida, so it's hot or at least warm until mid-
december.

Tomatoes require a fairly narrow nighttime temperature to set their
fruit, and reasonably warm weather to do much growing. So I don't
really know Florida, but I'd probably think in terms of planting cool
weather crops at this time of year. Things like Spinach and Kale you
probably can grow all winter (even here in Washington, DC, we can grow
them well into the fall and early in the spring).