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Moving from zone 4 to zone 10b
"Ricky" wrote in message ... Laurie, Having moved from NJ 6 years ago to Boca Raton, FL (just north of Ft. Lauderdale) I made a bunch of mistakes. You will as well so be prepared for them. First and foremost things grow here at a MUCH faster rate than up north. It is very easy to overplant. We do have seasons here and you have to adapt your gardening to them. There are lots of great retail nurseries for you but the one I would start you at is Jesse Durko's just off Griffin Road, west of Davie Blvd. Jesse grows the exotics that you won't find in most of the other garden centers and definitely not in Home Depot. Avoid any book by Pamela Crawford. Plant only palms with a crownshaft - they are self-cleaning. By the way, only Coconut palms have coconuts. Be prepared for crappy soil. Plan on amending before you start your garden. Start your garden as soon as you can! Ricky Thanks Ricky, I'll check out the nursery when I get there. And thanks for all the info! Laurie |
Moving from zone 4 to zone 10b
"MC" wrote in message ... On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:21:36 +0000, Laurie wrote: As for spring bulbs, you could still have some fun with them: pot 'em, refrigerate 'em and watch 'em grow. All they need is a specified time of cold. I do this every year (except this one) so that's a great idea, thanks! Laurie |
Moving from zone 4 to zone 10b
"Ricky" wrote in message ... Laurie, Having moved from NJ 6 years ago to Boca Raton, FL (just north of Ft. Lauderdale) I made a bunch of mistakes. You will as well so be prepared for them. First and foremost things grow here at a MUCH faster rate than up north. It is very easy to overplant. We do have seasons here and you have to adapt your gardening to them. There are lots of great retail nurseries for you but the one I would start you at is Jesse Durko's just off Griffin Road, west of Davie Blvd. Jesse grows the exotics that you won't find in most of the other garden centers and definitely not in Home Depot. Avoid any book by Pamela Crawford. Plant only palms with a crownshaft - they are self-cleaning. By the way, only Coconut palms have coconuts. Be prepared for crappy soil. Plan on amending before you start your garden. Start your garden as soon as you can! Ricky Thanks Ricky, I'll check out the nursery when I get there. And thanks for all the info! Laurie |
Moving from zone 4 to zone 10b
"Beecrofter" wrote in message om... Can I have your snow shovel? It's yours! I hope to never have to use one ever again! Not too far away in West Palm is a place called The Mounts, run by Florida master gardeners, check em out. Cool, thanks! Laurie |
Moving from zone 4 to zone 10b
"MC" wrote in message ... On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:21:36 +0000, Laurie wrote: As for spring bulbs, you could still have some fun with them: pot 'em, refrigerate 'em and watch 'em grow. All they need is a specified time of cold. I do this every year (except this one) so that's a great idea, thanks! Laurie |
Moving from zone 4 to zone 10b
"Ricky" wrote in message ... Laurie, Having moved from NJ 6 years ago to Boca Raton, FL (just north of Ft. Lauderdale) I made a bunch of mistakes. You will as well so be prepared for them. First and foremost things grow here at a MUCH faster rate than up north. It is very easy to overplant. We do have seasons here and you have to adapt your gardening to them. There are lots of great retail nurseries for you but the one I would start you at is Jesse Durko's just off Griffin Road, west of Davie Blvd. Jesse grows the exotics that you won't find in most of the other garden centers and definitely not in Home Depot. Avoid any book by Pamela Crawford. Plant only palms with a crownshaft - they are self-cleaning. By the way, only Coconut palms have coconuts. Be prepared for crappy soil. Plan on amending before you start your garden. Start your garden as soon as you can! Ricky Thanks Ricky, I'll check out the nursery when I get there. And thanks for all the info! Laurie |
Moving from zone 4 to zone 10b
"Ricky" wrote in message ... "Laurie" wrote in message link.net... Hi Everyone, I will be moving to Ft. Lauderdale Florida from Minnesota in the next few months. I'm wondering if anyone has any good websites, books, or info regarding gardening in my new zone. I guess I have to completely re-learn gardening now! Laurie, Having moved from NJ 6 years ago to Boca Raton, FL (just north of Ft. Lauderdale) I made a bunch of mistakes. You will as well so be prepared for them. First and foremost things grow here at a MUCH faster rate than up north. It is very easy to overplant. We do have seasons here and you have to adapt your gardening to them. There are lots of great retail nurseries for you but the one I would start you at is Jesse Durko's just off Griffin Road, west of Davie Blvd. Jesse grows the exotics that you won't find in most of the other garden centers and definitely not in Home Depot. Avoid any book by Pamela Crawford. :) Plant only palms with a crownshaft - they are self-cleaning. By the way, only Coconut palms have coconuts. though http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...jubaea+edible+ http://www.nextharvest.com/palm.htm i've tasted only Jubaea and butia this is interesting http://www.plantapalm.com/vpe/photos...baeaxbutia.htm http://www.plantapalm.com/centralfl/FreezeDaveWitt.asp Be prepared for crappy soil. or grow adapted plants. Plan on amending before you start your garden. Start your garden as soon as you can! Ricky |
Moving from zone 4 to zone 10b
"Beecrofter" wrote in message om... Can I have your snow shovel? It's yours! I hope to never have to use one ever again! Not too far away in West Palm is a place called The Mounts, run by Florida master gardeners, check em out. Cool, thanks! Laurie |
Moving from zone 4 to zone 10b
"Ricky" wrote in message ... "Laurie" wrote in message link.net... Hi Everyone, I will be moving to Ft. Lauderdale Florida from Minnesota in the next few months. I'm wondering if anyone has any good websites, books, or info regarding gardening in my new zone. I guess I have to completely re-learn gardening now! Laurie, Having moved from NJ 6 years ago to Boca Raton, FL (just north of Ft. Lauderdale) I made a bunch of mistakes. You will as well so be prepared for them. First and foremost things grow here at a MUCH faster rate than up north. It is very easy to overplant. We do have seasons here and you have to adapt your gardening to them. There are lots of great retail nurseries for you but the one I would start you at is Jesse Durko's just off Griffin Road, west of Davie Blvd. Jesse grows the exotics that you won't find in most of the other garden centers and definitely not in Home Depot. Avoid any book by Pamela Crawford. :) Plant only palms with a crownshaft - they are self-cleaning. By the way, only Coconut palms have coconuts. though http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...jubaea+edible+ http://www.nextharvest.com/palm.htm i've tasted only Jubaea and butia this is interesting http://www.plantapalm.com/vpe/photos...baeaxbutia.htm http://www.plantapalm.com/centralfl/FreezeDaveWitt.asp Be prepared for crappy soil. or grow adapted plants. Plan on amending before you start your garden. Start your garden as soon as you can! Ricky |
Moving from zone 4 to zone 10b
"MC" wrote in message ... On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:21:36 +0000, Laurie wrote: As for spring bulbs, you could still have some fun with them: pot 'em, refrigerate 'em and watch 'em grow. All they need is a specified time of cold. I do this every year (except this one) so that's a great idea, thanks! Laurie |
Moving from zone 4 to zone 10b
"Ricky" wrote in message Laurie, Having moved from NJ 6 years ago to Boca Raton, FL (just north of Ft. Lauderdale) I made a bunch of mistakes. You will as well so be prepared for them. First and foremost things grow here at a MUCH faster rate than up north. It is very easy to overplant. We do have seasons here and you have to adapt your gardening to them. There are lots of great retail nurseries for you but the one I would start you at is Jesse Durko's just off Griffin Road, west of Davie Blvd. Jesse grows the exotics that you won't find in most of the other garden centers and definitely not in Home Depot. Avoid any book by Pamela Crawford. Plant only palms with a crownshaft - they are self-cleaning. By the way, only Coconut palms have coconuts. Be prepared for crappy soil. Plan on amending before you start your garden. Start your garden as soon as you can! Ricky I second the info about fast growing. When I bought a house with an ugly chainlink fence on one side, I divided up a clump of pampas grass and spaced starts about every 15 feet along the fence (the fence was about 100 feet long or more). Then I put some odds and ends in between - a camellia here, a magnolia there, a flowering cherry here, a crape myrtle there, an eleagnus here, a bottle-brush there. Still, everything came in little one-gallon pots, and initially everything was spaced at least 4-6 feet from the next plant - it looked so bare, I was almost tempted to plant more stuff in between. 3 years later, the entire fence was a JUNGLE! ! ! ! ! The crape myrtle had grown to 20 feet, the magnolia was 15, the cherry was 15, the pampas grass starts were each 6 feet in diameter, etc etc etc. The only thing slow growing were the camellias. Then I realized I should have spaced everything no closer than 10 feet apart, but it was too late. Oh well, that is life in the deep South, with a 9-10 month growing season, and tons of rain and warmth. Also, beware the little live oak and water oak seedlings that you figure you can attend to next spring - by next spring they are likely to be 6 feet tall. |
Moving from zone 4 to zone 10b
"Laurie" wrote in message
link.net... Hi Everyone, I will be moving to Ft. Lauderdale Florida from Minnesota in the next few months. I'm wondering if anyone has any good websites, books, or info regarding gardening in my new zone. ... See http://leon.ifas.ufl.edu/gardening_landscaping.htm for a list of links to the University of Florida's Dardening and Landscape pages. or http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/TOPIC_Vegetable_Gardening for vegetable gardening. Olin |
Moving from zone 4 to zone 10b
"Laurie" wrote in message
link.net... Hi Everyone, I will be moving to Ft. Lauderdale Florida from Minnesota in the next few months. I'm wondering if anyone has any good websites, books, or info regarding gardening in my new zone. ... See http://leon.ifas.ufl.edu/gardening_landscaping.htm for a list of links to the University of Florida's Dardening and Landscape pages. or http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/TOPIC_Vegetable_Gardening for vegetable gardening. Olin |
Moving from zone 4 to zone 10b
"Laurie" wrote in message
link.net... Hi Everyone, I will be moving to Ft. Lauderdale Florida from Minnesota in the next few months. I'm wondering if anyone has any good websites, books, or info regarding gardening in my new zone. ... See http://leon.ifas.ufl.edu/gardening_landscaping.htm for a list of links to the University of Florida's Dardening and Landscape pages. or http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/TOPIC_Vegetable_Gardening for vegetable gardening. Olin |
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