The Summer Heat Is Here, and It’s Time to Transition to a Summer Vegetable Garden The Florida heat is here as we get up into the 90s each day. The lettuce, basil and cilantro have all bolted up to the sky and started to flower. Not to mention the havoc it wreaks on cucumbers, squash and zucchini plants. The bolting of heat-sensitive plants can cause low yield for the … [Read more...]
Fleet Farming Swarm Ride! In Audubon Park
Join Fleet Farming for our bi-monthly Swarm Ride! This is a free community event that invites you out to bike and farm with us in the Audubon Park Community. We meet at East End Market in the front farm, then ride out less than a mile away to resident's front and back lawns converted into productive farmlettes. Bring your bike, skateboard, rollerblades, or unicycle! Juice … [Read more...]
In the Garden: April Showers Bring May Flowers
Well, it’s a good thing that April showers bring May flowers! The weather in March and April has been a ping-pong game, bouncing back and forth between winter and spring. Finally, in May, spring is in full bloom. Our plants, however, are about a month behind normal for the season as far as growth and bloom. When the weather has unseasonable changes, it causes the plants to go … [Read more...]
In the Garden: Why Grow Vegetables in a Community Garden?
As a society, we are trending toward healthy, clean eating. There are many motivations that cause families to question their eating habits and overall health. As people understand more about how environmental factors and foods affect the body, we are questioning the standards that have been deemed acceptable. Is it acceptable for there to be a paragraph of ingredients in a … [Read more...]
In the Garden: Spring Has Sprung!
Now is the time to pollinate. After a very strange weather pattern during the month of March, with unseasonable cold the first half of the month, our plants were totally confused. They started to flower with the warmth at the end of February and then went into a temporary state of shock when we hit the 40’s in the evenings most nights in the first two weeks of March. The plants … [Read more...]