'Tis The Season

Figaro
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Originally Posted by greenbud
Figaro, I appreciate the link. The info was complete and easy for me to understand. I am curious if you planted the dill and collards back in Sept. She likes kale and fresh herbs. I am sending her an envelope of seeds and I thought it still isn't too late to plant greens and maybe pole beans. She planted Helda beans(planted in ground) that I sent her last fall and got some for a few pickings. I believe her problem is lack of organic matter in the sand that goes below 4 inches. I keep encouraging more humus and rotted manure and bushel size pots as opposed to 2 gallon pots.

How do you find out what cuttings/bulbs can be sent to FLA?

Yes, I did plant both from seed back in late Sept or early Oct. I'm in zone 10B which is sub-tropical. Manatee county is zone 9A. I created an Excel spreadsheet with columns for each month of the year and in each column, I list the vegetables that can be planted in this agricultural zone. I "tweak" this over time as I experiment with different vegetables and different planting times.

You can easily put one together for zone 9 from different sources such as:

http://www.zone9garden.com/zone-9-fall-planting-guide
http://veggieharvest.com/calendars/zone-9.html

Also, lots of good info at https://docs.askives.com/vegetable-planting-guide-for-zone-9a.html

She can always try containers to rule out the soil as the possible cause for her troubles.

I don't know that there are restrictions on sending bulbs/cuttings to FL, per se (although, it's possible?). I believe the restriction would be from shipping from outside of the USA to anywhere in the USA. I do know Hawaii (non-continental US) as its own restrictions but am not aware of any specific to FL.

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Tejas
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Figaro,

Great pics! I wish I could grow tropical fruit trees. I have a friend in Miami. He has a large avocado tree that appears to be very old. The avocados are very large and are bright green. He lost a papaya tree a year ago or so. Many of his neighbors have mango trees that are huge.

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greenbud
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Thanks again for the links and the advice Figaro. I got the seeds together I'm going to send my friend. I'm sending some okra seed that, from what I read, could produce through the summer heat in FLA. She does not have a computer and will probably never have one, so I'll have to pass on info through the mail or by conversation. Hopefully I can get her to try a fig tree or 2 this year or next.

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