Tom, I really have not look at the archives but about your question on the fall vegetables like broccoli, it is better to succession plant them a little at a time. I usually start mine in a big container and after that I put them in the garden. Broccoli can benefit to an early start since they take a very long time to grow. If you start your own seeds and supplement with good quality transplants bought at the nursery you can have a longer season. When I saw the way they grow seedlings at Knox nursery, I learned that they put something on the seedlings to make them short and bushy, of course they did not say what it was.-( I will start broccoli the first days of August. Silvia

Tamara, To show you how much interest there is in posting photos on the Florida forum, we've set up several topics lately for pictures of flowers of each color. In just a few days we've had dozens of postings. Please go to the Florida forum and check out the following threads: ~ RED - show me red! ~ BLUE - show me blue! ~ YELLOW - show me yellow! ~ PINK - show me pink! ~ How 'bout ORANGE? ~ Let's talk roses When we get our Gallery page, could you have those threads moved over to that page? We'll be starting posts on purple, white and 'bugs' soon and would like those moved as well. Thanks! Kate Here is a link that might be useful: Example: PINK - show me pink!

This site hasn't been the same since Spike started charging for it. A lot of folks left then, and it has never recovered. I wish it was more active too. I thought it might get better after the sale of the site, but it hasn't.

Oh my God...Do you have any idea of what this conversation about Mango's is doing to me? I have a Mango tree in my yard at my house in Puerto Rico and it's the ONLY tree I use to love picking from before going to the beach. I use to pick them fresh and stick them in a cooler for the beach. To bite into one of those when you are hot is to die for, next to fresh Coconut juice right out from the coconut. Those pics and of that water, the orange and blues are just to die for. I once tried a Glen Mango, and a Roof Rat as they call it literally kept picking my fruit a few years back and then toppled the whole tree over onto my pavement on a hot day just to kill it( That tree case me 79 dollars and it was grafted slated for container growing and I miss it so. The fruit was well on it's way to maturing, so it is possible, Laura, to grow them in our area and long as you keep the varmints away from them. I grew mine out doors on my flat roof all summer in a white pot and would stick it in a sunny warm window for the winter while the fruit just held on until it would start to mature agin come that spring. Fig, I love how you talk about the island and the fruits you like. Believe me, now that you discovered this site and live in that area, growing citrus should be much easier than for use that had to grow them without all this help. It is much easier than you might think. All these hours stories you hear are of those whom have not heard of this forums until they were in dire straights, or not applying the simple concept of growing in containers... Simply put very good well draining porous mix, one of which many make here, a good amount of sunlight which you have, a good watering regimen, and a good fertilizer is all one needs to grow healthy citrus in containers. Constant vigilance on watching for pests will help keep them that way..That's all.. Nice to meet you)