Watch My Food Grow ~ A South Florida Raised Vegetable Garden

A few months back, I wrote about Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew. In order to be successful in his method of gardening, a key element is vermiculite. Unfortunately, vermiculite is hard to fine.

Vermiculite Found at Atlantic-FEC in Miami

Lawrence, a Watch My Food Grow reader, mentioned Atlantic-FEC as a potential vermiculite supplier in a comment. I emailed them yesterday and got a quick response back from Frances Corona. Here is what she has to say:

Good morning ….. We do have vermiculite our price is $8.30 [for a four cubic foot bag] we gladly sell to the general public. Rather it be walk-in or delivery.. you can buy as many as you need …… for more information that you need please feel free to email me back anytime…… we also have a product book so again feel free at anytime….. have a wonderful day.

While I haven’t done any business with Atlantic-FEC (yet), I’m impressed at how quickly they responded to my email. Based on their web site, it looks like you can get just about anything fertilizer-related you need from them. Miami is a bit of a drive from Palm Beach Gardens where my garden is located but it might be worth stopping by the next time I’m down there for other reasons.

How to Find Vermiculite and Atlantic-FEC

Tell Me About Your Florida Vegetable Garden

It is prime planting season. The freeze is past and we’re ready to grow. Let me know about your garden. Also, if you do purchase from Atlantic-FEC, please let me know. I’d hate to recommend them and not have my readers have positive results.

— Farmer Matt

Tags: 15 Comments

South Florida Backyard Garden Planted

As you may have heard, South Florida was hit by a very un-Florida like cold front at the first of the year. Instead of planning on New Year’s Day as I had planned, I waited a few weeks. Last night, I got home unusually early and put two tomatoes and three pepper plants in the ground. Not much to see yet but I wanted to let you know I’m on the job…

What to Plant in My South Florida Garden?

Last year the crowd favorites were broccoli and green beans. No one (except Florida Food Writer, Jan Norris) liked the fairy tail eggplant. I hated the herbs. The peppers, both hot and green, we great since we eat a lot of southwestern style meals. The lettuce was good on BLT sandwiches. The Sun Sugar tomatoes were great but the bigger tomatoes didn’t do so well.

Trip to the Nursery Soon

I gotta stop by the nursery this weekend and see what is available. I’ll be updating this gardening blog soon with more details. Please keep in touch and let me know what you’re growing.

Tags: No Comments.

This Crookneck Squash is pretty much the last thing growing in my South Florida backyard raised vegetable garden….

Long story short, it’s hot here in South Florida and our growing season is pretty much over until October.

Coming soonish… a review of the LinkSys webcam that is powering the live garden video feed.

Tags: 5 Comments