If I had half as much success with planting seeds as I have with volunteers sprouting, I could feed the neighborhood! That's the result of composting, of course.
Now that the summer is half over its time to start prepping the garden for fall planting, which in any other part of the country would be "spring" planting. The heat is still opressive, but little seedlings need over a month to reach transplant size, so this week is the best time to start them for crops to develop before the coldest part of winter.
Some winters there are a good number of frosty days, like last year, which pretty much killed all tender tropical plants - but also got rid of lots of pesty bugs - so I'm not complaining. Who knows what this winter will bring, it may be like 2 years ago when there really wasn't any cold to speak of and we had avacados on the tree up until January.
Either way, we have to get through the rest of 2009 hurricane season, which has just kicked in late, 2 months into the 6-month normal storm span. Bill is barreling across the Atlantic, and I am stocking up on food, water and storm supplies, because we could be targets, and even if we aren't in the direct path, Florida isn't wide enough to escape the weather if a storm happens to glaze the tip or slide up the coast.
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