I did my sweet potatoes last summer with 3 slips in a five gallon potato grow bag. I got a lot of greens which is why I grew them. This spring I took the remaining vines, cut them and stuck them back in the dirt of the same pot, added some fertilizer, and wow, they came back and is growing supper fast. I never got sweet potatoes last year, but that's ok, I love the greens in my cooking. I'm not big on raw veggies.
This is incredibly helpful information, especially on the perennial greens. I'd welcome hearing more about perennial food plants and native edible species for FL. Thank you!
I have been binge watching your channel, and I am loving it! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with rest of us in Florida . There are not much channels for Florida weather and I am so glad I found you. I have two new beds, and I am struggling to grow something in summer. I don’t want to block them for fall garden so I don’t want to grow sweet potatoes . My kids love spinach and arugula, they just munch on them like a cow lol can you recommend a leafy green that kids would love to eat. I tried Malabar spinach a few years back and I didn’t like it . Also, do you sell seeds? We are in Jacksonville.
Thankyou so much for this information!!! I’ve been wondering what leafy greens would be great for the summer months here in Vero Beach!! I enjoy all of your videos and have learned so much from you, as I’m a beginner gardener!! God bless you!
Malibar spinach loves the heat. The thick green stem variety produces a massive yield to preserve for the winter. The thin purple stem variety has a much lower yield but doesn’t take up as much space
I'm glad to learn about katuk and a couple others you mentioned in this video. I'm not sure if they will all grow as successfully here in Jackson Mississippi (Zone 8b) but I would like to give some of them a try. Our weather is so unstable, as crops get exposed to nearly everything you can imagine so it can be a real challenge to garden year round. But growing a number of different varieties of plants really helps overcome the occasional failure now and then. Thanks for making your videos and sharing your knowledge.
Yes they are. Was talking to an acquaintance from Africa and she said that they reserve their cowpea leaves for the children and pregnant mothers who need the nutrition the most.
Thank you for this info. I'm in Houston and I found this very informative. I have had very low hopes for collards past early spring, but I'm going to give them more of a shot.
I've had 3 in my greenstalks out back for over 1.5 years now. Variety makes a difference. Also they aren't always going to look perfect but they will bounce back.
Great video! You may also add Malabar spinach, moringa and chili pepper leaves (I like tabasco). We also eat the young leaves of bitter gourd & chayote.
The Urban Harvest - Organic Florida Gardening, chili pepper leaves are like spinach. They are very nutritious like moringa, but better tasting. I specially love chili leaves in tinola or arroz caldo on cold, rainy nights... Hot chili peppers grow well in the hot, rainy Florida summer, in partial shade. This year, I’m growing Datil pepper & tabasco for the leaves.
Hi Elise Love your channel. You recommended amaranth to plant in the summer as a leafy green in Florida. There are many amaranths to choose from, which one would you recommend best for our central Florida summer heat? Thank you for all your videos !!!!!
I have planted a ton of varieties and have yet to be disappointed with any of them. I've grown love lies bleeding, elephant head, garnet, callaloo, hopi red dye, & probably more from years ago that I don't remember lol. Glad the videos have been helpful!
@@TheUrbanHarvest I also would like some Ethiopian kale. One that you didn't mention that I added to my garden this year is Malabar spinach do you grow that?
@@SoulBotanicalFarm I have ethiopian kale but no tree collards. You can order those online though from a specialty company. I grow malabar yes, does well here but has to be in a pot because it has nematode sensitivities.
I wish you would show the spelling of the veggies you are talking about so that we can look them up to find them and buy them. It is hard to tell just by hearing the name. Thank you!
I must first say you are awsome and very helpfull! I hope you get a laugh out of your face when you look at the end of time stamp 20:26 in your video 😜
Can you recommend a good plant ID app? I have some kind of spinach growing up here in North Florida and I'm not sure what it is. I know it's not longevity, I have that growing in a container elsewhere in the yard. Thank you for these great informative videos.
Thank you for video. It was very helpful. Quick question, can I grow swiss chard in a 1 or 1.5 gallon grow bag? How much dirt/height is recommended for the roots? Thank you in advance
I just read that pink eye purple hull cow pea leaves are edible too! I was unaware of this fact. I haven’t tried them yet but definitely will towards the end of my harvest. Have you heard of this before?
I used the same kind and was wondering about that too, especially in the full sun. I put up a burlap shade cloth. Seems to be helping, but it’s only May!
I agree the dino/lacinato & ethiopian kale holds much better than any of the curly winter kales. I usually harvest dino through at least june/july but they never quite seem to make it to fall planting time for me.
I just moved to Florida and started following you to try and get some planting and growing guidance and advice. When do people start gardening here as far as growing tomatoes and zucchini etd?
Very soon! If your starting from seed September is prime time for both. Check out my free what to plant when guide by signing up for my free newsletter. www.theurbanharvest.com
I just found your channel and am in love! I moved to zone 8b in FL this month and really want to start a garden. Not sure what I'm doing but I am determined to learn. I'm interested in attending a class and I've missed the ones listed here. Will there be more?
yes. ill be starting up classes again in june after my maternity leave. best way to stay notified is by subscribing to my free monthly newsletter or following my social media accounts fb/ig. heres a link to the newsletter sign up... www.theurbanharvest.com/online-tutorials/
Heart Village Nursery in Lake Wales has Katuk and Longevity Spinach. Look up their website and call before you go to make sure they have the items you want. I haven't been able to make it out there, so I'm not sure if you need to book an appointment. heartvillage.org/village-nursery/
Thanks Elise for this great info. Just got done with our first time growing tomatoes here in Tampa Bay. I noticed our plants got very yellow and started dying off very quickly. We didn’t plant until March, in 20 gal pots inside our pool cage. 2 early girls and 1 heirloom that started strong and limped across the finish line. Was not the yield I was hoping for but what we did harvest was delicious. My question to you is that I bought a gage for the soil and found ph between 7-8. I read tomatoes need 6-6.5 nothing we did seemed to lower the ph. This next season we will try again but would like to know what amendments to use in our pots to help them? Wondered if the things you used in your blueberry planting video would be appropriate?
That was a little late, Our prime tomato growing season is fall (Aug/Sep). Spring tomatoes have to planted very early and you have to be ok with and know they will only produce a short while. Ph correction is usually a very slow process, if you "kept trying without results" you may have over corrected. Dont do a thing this summer and retest in fall. Also home Ph meters are notoriously variable, so perhaps send it to IFAS for a more reliable test. But in my experience 7 is just fine for tomatoes. My compost sits at 6.8-7 and I grow lots of them just fine! As for amendments blueberry amendments are not fitting for tomatoes. I like to add nutrients high in nitrogen and calcium for tomatoes.
I live in the riverview (south of Brandon area) and was wondering if you can recommend any nurseries that I may be able to find some of the plants that you mentioned. I am brand new to gardening and am trying to have a garden that provides the majority of our food.
There’s not much info I can find specifically for South Florida (10b) so when you refer to growing in Florida are you referring to all of Florida or just your specific area.
I tried growing collards during summer and they all died. Too hot. I live in central florida (ocala florida) so be sure to know what to plant in your zone and when.
Sunlight and variety can make a world of difference. In general planting leafy greens in shade/part shade over the summer will take something from dead to productive.
Yes I have a curated collection at Avid Brewing & Supply in St. Pete. If you arent local, I will also mail them. Email me at elise.pickett@theurbanharvest.com.
Enjoyed your videos, especially being that o live in Orlando. Please tell me what type of mulch/covering you are using on your ground. Does it keep the weeds out?
Lots of veggies have lots of stuff : ) I personally think diversity is ideal with food as well as just about everything else. We eat lots of greens but consistently mix them up. At any given time I might have 10-20 type of leafy greens growing. But I am definitely no expert of medicine or diet or anything like that.
There is no one company. Typically finding a permaculture farm in your area is the best best. Check into grow permaculture, A natural farm, heart village, sustainable kashi, or echo to see if they are close by. There are also usually small urban homestead permacultrists in almost every town but may not have a website or be as easy to find. Just ask around at your local gardening clubs.
The one I've grown for years is Opopeo but I like love lies bleeding or elephant head as well. Calalloo is also good but more for the leaves than the grain.
I looked up Ceylon spinach and all my results were for malaise spinach. Can you post a link to the green you’re growing? I’d like to try it in my garden if I can find seeds.
Look for Talinum triangulare. Its got about a thousand common names. Ive always just gotten seed or plants from local permaculture gardeners but it looks like etsy has people selling the seed online. If your local my network has plants for sale which will reseed readily.
thanks for making this video. I'm getting the opinion that maybe I might really be able to leave California for good and still survive in Florida. It is vital to me to grow my own food if possible and greens are my number one ingredient for green juicing and salads which is basically my entire diet hehe. I suppose in Lake County I could also grow lemon trees which I eat a lot of, and I hear there's a Florida avocado but doesn't have many fans. So I suppose I'll have to import my avocados from California. (I eat 3 a day, roughly). One question, I also exist on a ton of celery, is celery not a good option during the summer heat of Central Florida? I suppose carrots will do fine, cucumber and radish too. What else do I eat a lot of? Broccoli and sweet peas, sweet onions. I'm assuming sweet peas and onions will do alright but I'm guessing broccoli will bolt. Is that true? Thanks for your attention.
We grow avocados here, there are a number of varieties even haas types that do fine. All of the crops you mentioned are cool weather crops here from fall through spring. None of them will grow through the summer heat so you would have to preserve them in some way or use substitutes. I use fordhook chard for celery, rat tail radish for radish, chives and scallions for onion, etc.
@@TheUrbanHarvest thanks. Do you grow avocados yourself? It would be nice to see some of that sometime. My understanding was that hass types would not do well there.
@@TheUrbanHarvest Thank you for this valuable insight. I will do more research. I haven't heard of Oro Negro before, but most certainly I will research because I really want to move to Central Florida, preferably Lake County near Eustis/Umatilla. Have you gotten any harvests yet? I'm curious how it ranks in terms of butteryness compared of course to our glorious wonderful Hass avocados which I believe are the best here on the Central Coast of California where the growing season is longer so that the oil content accumulates more. These I eat now (direct from rancher) are super buttery and delicious.
@@TheUrbanHarvest Ahh, I see from this page that the oil content isn't so high. It's like the oil content of our late winter early spring Zutanos which I abhor and nearly refuse to eat :( www.myavocadotrees.com/oro-negro-avocado.html
I have purple sweet potatoe slips growing and I tasted one of the leaves the other day as I love All greens but it was so so bitter. Do you recommend a certain type for eating the leaves or do you add something in them to lesson the bitterness?
There are a lot of ornamental sweet potatoes used for landscaping purposes. Was this from potatoes you've eaten/grown or know to be edible? I've never really gotten a bitter taste from them before so I'm just guessing here...
Try growing the slips from Korean sweet potato or other Asian potatoes (go to Asian stores or ask your Asian friends to give you some). We like steaming the leaves, & dipping them in calamondin orange juice w/ soy sauce. Great w/ green or partially ripe tomatoes or cherry tomatoes.... Or you can boil it, use the juice w/ lemon for a more nutritious lemonade! I love how the lemon/calamondin orange can bring back the purple color.
@@TheUrbanHarvest it was just I purple skin sweet potato I bought in the produce Dept at Publix. I ate the leaf raw so it might be less bitter if I had cooked it. I love collards and they are bitter. I was just curious while in the garden and thought I would just see how it would taste. Looking back.. probably should have just sauteed it before eating 😂
Im in Tampa amd I was wondering if you knew of any sources for some of these. I have been looking for the katuk, longevity spinach and some of the others.
I live in Lakeland and have lots of katuk. You can have some free cuttings to root yourself if you're ever in the Lakeland area. We typically allow people to stop by on Sunday for tours and I don't charge anything for cuttings. We have some videos on our channel but we are not extremely active in the video department.
Yes I save some of my own seed and also purchase online. I like southern exposure, baker creek, johnny seeds, and occasionally burpee seed. I also carry a curated collection (from southern exposure) of varieties that grow well here in Florida. You can order them and I mail them out. Availability list is here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17DYNy7-dRM-nuidsAH07Sc85cY9vmDb6KLSlnZ5XDqY/edit?usp=sharing
@@TheUrbanHarvest Thank you so much for the information. I just learned about longevity spinach and ordered clippings from a person in Clearwater. I am thankful for people like you educating us on plants that grow well in Florida. I learned about the spinach from a guy named Will Grant. He is here in the Tampa area.
@@TheUrbanHarvest I'm starting a "Back to Eden" Garden in Pinellas County, Largo, and would love to visit your garden for a tour and some tips. I'm from Louisville, KY and my neighbor is from the Phillipines so we are looking forward to a fun time and a good harvest. Could we schedule a visit?
Here, there, everywhere : ) I use Southern Exposure first then branch out to Baker Creek, Johnny Seed, or Burpee Seed depending on what I'm looking for.
@@TheUrbanHarvest I’ve had chickens for years but I’m taking a break from them. Love your channel. I’ve garden over the years in saint Pete . It’s been challenging. Thank you for sharing informative information. I just ordered my free compost bin from st. Pete. Did you get one?
Thank you so much for making this channel! I feel like the info I get from other sources don’t work well because everything is different in FL.
You're so welcome!
completely agree.
Agree. Last year I lost my garden by copying people who don’t live in FL and growing yankee plants. 😜
So true. Even planting times are different for us here
I did my sweet potatoes last summer with 3 slips in a five gallon potato grow bag. I got a lot of greens which is why I grew them. This spring I took the remaining vines, cut them and stuck them back in the dirt of the same pot, added some fertilizer, and wow, they came back and is growing supper fast. I never got sweet potatoes last year, but that's ok, I love the greens in my cooking. I'm not big on raw veggies.
Small or no rot formation could be too much nitrogen or water. If your looking for roots this go around.
This is incredibly helpful information, especially on the perennial greens. I'd welcome hearing more about perennial food plants and native edible species for FL. Thank you!
Noted! I've highlighted perennials in a few videos but should definitely get one done focused solely on them.
Exactly the kind of specific information so many of us busy hard to find time gardeners crave. Thank you for this video.
Glad it was helpful! Ill make sure to keep them coming!
Thank you! Your video is very helpful. I hope you continue to make videos as we go through the seasons. I’m in Leesburg, Central Florida.
We will! Just over 60 videos in a year. More coming : )
My wife and I are in Leesburg also. Life long resident.
I have been binge watching your channel, and I am loving it! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with rest of us in Florida . There are not much channels for Florida weather and I am so glad I found you. I have two new beds, and I am struggling to grow something in summer. I don’t want to block them for fall garden so I don’t want to grow sweet potatoes . My kids love spinach and arugula, they just munch on them like a cow lol can you recommend a leafy green that kids would love to eat. I tried Malabar spinach a few years back and I didn’t like it . Also, do you sell seeds? We are in Jacksonville.
Try amaranth! Yes I have seeds. Email me at elise.pickett@theurbanharvest.com.
Thankyou so much for this information!!! I’ve been wondering what leafy greens would be great for the summer months here in Vero Beach!! I enjoy all of your videos and have learned so much from you, as I’m a beginner gardener!! God bless you!
You are so welcome!
Malibar spinach loves the heat. The thick green stem variety produces a massive yield to preserve for the winter. The thin purple stem variety has a much lower yield but doesn’t take up as much space
Grow it every year!
Wow! That’s a lot of greens!
I teach a whole course on growing leafy greens year round. You'd be amazed at the possibilities!
I'm glad to learn about katuk and a couple others you mentioned in this video. I'm not sure if they will all grow as successfully here in Jackson Mississippi (Zone 8b) but I would like to give some of them a try. Our weather is so unstable, as crops get exposed to nearly everything you can imagine so it can be a real challenge to garden year round. But growing a number of different varieties of plants really helps overcome the occasional failure now and then. Thanks for making your videos and sharing your knowledge.
Another excellent video, thank you so much! I started growing leafy greens thanks to you and I have been enjoying them since.
Wonderful! Good for you!!!
WoW! Newbie here. My fordhook chard isn’t nearly the size of yours. It’s delicious though.
You are my new favorite channel, thank you for your wisdom and great production quality of the channel! 🫑🍅🥒
Wow, thank you! Happy gardening!
Most bean leaves are edible too and tasty young..blackberry leaves make a nice tea..lots of leaves make a nice tea lol
Yes they are. Was talking to an acquaintance from Africa and she said that they reserve their cowpea leaves for the children and pregnant mothers who need the nutrition the most.
I learned so much! I’m definitely subscribing to your channel. I’m in Gainesville and struggling with what to grow here.
Thank you. My dad and I were just wonderung about this.
perfect timing then!
Thank you for this info. I'm in Houston and I found this very informative. I have had very low hopes for collards past early spring, but I'm going to give them more of a shot.
I've had 3 in my greenstalks out back for over 1.5 years now. Variety makes a difference. Also they aren't always going to look perfect but they will bounce back.
I'm frustrated... As a fellow Florida gardener, I should have found this channel much sooner!
Sorry! I've only been doing this (youtube) a year or so now.
My go to "Burg" garden expert! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
You bet ya!
Great video! You may also add Malabar spinach, moringa and chili pepper leaves (I like tabasco). We also eat the young leaves of bitter gourd & chayote.
I grow those as well except have never heard of chili pepper leaves! New to me, thats great : ) Thanks for the tip.
The Urban Harvest - Organic Florida Gardening, chili pepper leaves are like spinach. They are very nutritious like moringa, but better tasting. I specially love chili leaves in tinola or arroz caldo on cold, rainy nights... Hot chili peppers grow well in the hot, rainy Florida summer, in partial shade. This year, I’m growing Datil pepper & tabasco for the leaves.
Hi Elise
Love your channel.
You recommended amaranth to plant in the summer as a leafy green in Florida.
There are many amaranths to choose from, which one would you recommend best for our central Florida summer heat?
Thank you for all your videos !!!!!
I have planted a ton of varieties and have yet to be disappointed with any of them. I've grown love lies bleeding, elephant head, garnet, callaloo, hopi red dye, & probably more from years ago that I don't remember lol. Glad the videos have been helpful!
Thank you, your videos have help me so much this past year. Thank you from Fernandina
Awesome, glad they have helped!
Thank you. I am going to try opoppeo, amaranth to see how it goes. Thanks again !!
Hope you enjoy, I've yet to try an amaranth I haven't been happy with!
So many native edible greens grow wild here ..usually called weeds .a lot of them taste amazing.
I eat some but am definitely not as knowledgeable in that arena. Something Id like to improve!
Thank you so much for your helpful videos🥰
Glad you like them!
Thank you! I live in Mulberry and last summer was hard for me trying to grow leafy greens.
There's lots of options, let me know if you have need other varieties!
@@TheUrbanHarvest I do and do you have any purple tree collards?
@@TheUrbanHarvest I also would like some Ethiopian kale. One that you didn't mention that I added to my garden this year is Malabar spinach do you grow that?
@@SoulBotanicalFarm I have ethiopian kale but no tree collards. You can order those online though from a specialty company. I grow malabar yes, does well here but has to be in a pot because it has nematode sensitivities.
I wish you would show the spelling of the veggies you are talking about so that we can look them up to find them and buy them. It is hard to tell just by hearing the name. Thank you!
Ive started doing that on newer videos. Which ones were you interested in?
My collards started bolting in our heat , so I harvested all of it. It's in full sun so I may try again in a shady spot.
I love chaya . So tasty
Its a good one.
This is wonderful video. Thank you so much!
Absolutely, glad it was helpful!
I must first say you are awsome and very helpfull! I hope you get a laugh out of your face when you look at the end of time stamp 20:26 in your video 😜
Glad it was helpful! Sometimes I see the looks on my face and think I just need to do the whole video with plants on the screen lol
Can you recommend a good plant ID app? I have some kind of spinach growing up here in North Florida and I'm not sure what it is. I know it's not longevity, I have that growing in a container elsewhere in the yard. Thank you for these great informative videos.
I use my extension service for plant ID. Each county has one and they are very good at local flora.
Very informative. I subscribed. Thank you
Awesome, thank you!
Awesome ..well done
Thanks a lot 😊
Echo global ministries ( North ft myers)has Ethiopian kale
They do! I LOVE that place. Its an amazing resource.
Thank you for video. It was very helpful.
Quick question, can I grow swiss chard in a 1 or 1.5 gallon grow bag? How much dirt/height is recommended for the roots? Thank you in advance
Sorry for slow reply, just had a baby! Yes you can, but only one plant per pot. Fill to just below the brim with soil.
@@TheUrbanHarvest No worries, thank you for the informative video. Congratulations on the baby too!
I missed at what part of Florida are you at?
Best videos, thank you
Im St. Pete, Pinellas.
@@TheUrbanHarvest thank you
Great tutorial
Very informative
Glad you think so!
I just read that pink eye purple hull cow pea leaves are edible too! I was unaware of this fact. I haven’t tried them yet but definitely will towards the end of my harvest. Have you heard of this before?
yes, it is reserved for pregnant mothers and children in traditional cultures of Africa.
Swiss chard is great will it grow in full sun in June
I love chard, have your tried perpetual? its my fave!
Your raised beds has tin sidings ,that is going to cook both soil and vegetables ---am I right --Florida
I normally do wood, first season with metal. we shall see.
I used the same kind and was wondering about that too, especially in the full sun. I put up a burlap shade cloth. Seems to be helping, but it’s only May!
Most of my kale does just as good in the heat as my collards. Especially my dinosaur kale, as long as they get daily water.
I agree the dino/lacinato & ethiopian kale holds much better than any of the curly winter kales. I usually harvest dino through at least june/july but they never quite seem to make it to fall planting time for me.
I have such a hard time having the Swiss chard seeds to germinate. Any tips please?
I just moved to Florida and started following you to try and get some planting and growing guidance and advice. When do people start gardening here as far as growing tomatoes and zucchini etd?
Very soon! If your starting from seed September is prime time for both. Check out my free what to plant when guide by signing up for my free newsletter. www.theurbanharvest.com
@@TheUrbanHarvest So you are saying to start my seeds in September? What tomatoes grow best in Florida? Or do most do ok
I just found your channel and am in love! I moved to zone 8b in FL this month and really want to start a garden. Not sure what I'm doing but I am determined to learn. I'm interested in attending a class and I've missed the ones listed here. Will there be more?
yes. ill be starting up classes again in june after my maternity leave. best way to stay notified is by subscribing to my free monthly newsletter or following my social media accounts fb/ig. heres a link to the newsletter sign up... www.theurbanharvest.com/online-tutorials/
Heart Village Nursery in Lake Wales has Katuk and Longevity Spinach. Look up their website and call before you go to make sure they have the items you want. I haven't been able to make it out there, so I'm not sure if you need to book an appointment.
heartvillage.org/village-nursery/
Thanks for sharing!
@@TheUrbanHarvest of course! Always happy to help fellow gardeners find the varieties they want.
Thanks Elise for this great info. Just got done with our first time growing tomatoes here in Tampa Bay. I noticed our plants got very yellow and started dying off very quickly. We didn’t plant until March, in 20 gal pots inside our pool cage. 2 early girls and 1 heirloom that started strong and limped across the finish line. Was not the yield I was hoping for but what we did harvest was delicious. My question to you is that I bought a gage for the soil and found ph between 7-8. I read tomatoes need 6-6.5 nothing we did seemed to lower the ph. This next season we will try again but would like to know what amendments to use in our pots to help them? Wondered if the things you used in your blueberry planting video would be appropriate?
That was a little late, Our prime tomato growing season is fall (Aug/Sep). Spring tomatoes have to planted very early and you have to be ok with and know they will only produce a short while. Ph correction is usually a very slow process, if you "kept trying without results" you may have over corrected. Dont do a thing this summer and retest in fall. Also home Ph meters are notoriously variable, so perhaps send it to IFAS for a more reliable test. But in my experience 7 is just fine for tomatoes. My compost sits at 6.8-7 and I grow lots of them just fine! As for amendments blueberry amendments are not fitting for tomatoes. I like to add nutrients high in nitrogen and calcium for tomatoes.
@@TheUrbanHarvest Thanks Elise! I will give it another go! I got some of your recommended tomato seeds for our Florida heat.
I live in the riverview (south of Brandon area) and was wondering if you can recommend any nurseries that I may be able to find some of the plants that you mentioned. I am brand new to gardening and am trying to have a garden that provides the majority of our food.
A lot of the seed can be sourced online or perhaps with ECHO farm.
Thank you can yo grow katuk in GreenStalk?
There’s not much info I can find specifically for South Florida (10b) so when you refer to growing in Florida are you referring to all of Florida or just your specific area.
Can we grow stinging nettle in south Florida ???
i think its a north central thing
Will these greens grow well in containers in Ft Meyers? Thanks for sharing 😊
Vast majority yes! Vines like Malabar will need to climb.
@@TheUrbanHarvest ok, thank you 😊
I tried growing collards during summer and they all died. Too hot. I live in central florida (ocala florida) so be sure to know what to plant in your zone and when.
Sunlight and variety can make a world of difference. In general planting leafy greens in shade/part shade over the summer will take something from dead to productive.
Hi there!! I have not been able to find seeds for the majority of the greens mentioned in this video. Do you locally sell?
Yes I have a curated collection at Avid Brewing & Supply in St. Pete. If you arent local, I will also mail them. Email me at elise.pickett@theurbanharvest.com.
Im local on st Pete yes, i haven’t heard of this place but will check it out. Otherwise will email you. Thanks a lot!
Enjoyed your videos, especially being that o live in Orlando. Please tell me what type of mulch/covering you are using on your ground. Does it keep the weeds out?
Awesome, glad they are helpful. Heres a video I did on it... ua-cam.com/video/cql-AMD4LaM/v-deo.html
@@TheUrbanHarvest good information, thank you
I wanna know where you bought you white picket fence. Irma took mine out. Looking for a wooden one.
Came with the house : ) I love picket fences too!
Don't a lot of these greens contain oxlates? I recently had a discussion with a friend regarding this. What are your thoughts?
Lots of veggies have lots of stuff : ) I personally think diversity is ideal with food as well as just about everything else. We eat lots of greens but consistently mix them up. At any given time I might have 10-20 type of leafy greens growing. But I am definitely no expert of medicine or diet or anything like that.
where is a good supplier of quality seeds for perennial vegetables or edible plants for the central Florida climate?
There is no one company. Typically finding a permaculture farm in your area is the best best. Check into grow permaculture, A natural farm, heart village, sustainable kashi, or echo to see if they are close by. There are also usually small urban homestead permacultrists in almost every town but may not have a website or be as easy to find. Just ask around at your local gardening clubs.
New sub here thanks for sharing
Thanks for coming
Have you ever tried New Zealand spinach ?
Yes absolutely love it! ua-cam.com/video/aCVhHlw7Uvw/v-deo.html
What is the variety of Amaranth that you like to use? Both for the leafy vegetables and for the grain?
The one I've grown for years is Opopeo but I like love lies bleeding or elephant head as well. Calalloo is also good but more for the leaves than the grain.
I looked up Ceylon spinach and all my results were for malaise spinach. Can you post a link to the green you’re growing? I’d like to try it in my garden if I can find seeds.
Look for Talinum triangulare. Its got about a thousand common names. Ive always just gotten seed or plants from local permaculture gardeners but it looks like etsy has people selling the seed online. If your local my network has plants for sale which will reseed readily.
Are the leaves from Puerto Rican Black Beans edible?
yes most bean leaves are
@@TheUrbanHarvest great! Can they be eaten when they are large and mature, or should they only be eaten when they are young?
@@aprilgomez8524 Young is more tender.
thanks for making this video. I'm getting the opinion that maybe I might really be able to leave California for good and still survive in Florida. It is vital to me to grow my own food if possible and greens are my number one ingredient for green juicing and salads which is basically my entire diet hehe. I suppose in Lake County I could also grow lemon trees which I eat a lot of, and I hear there's a Florida avocado but doesn't have many fans. So I suppose I'll have to import my avocados from California. (I eat 3 a day, roughly). One question, I also exist on a ton of celery, is celery not a good option during the summer heat of Central Florida? I suppose carrots will do fine, cucumber and radish too. What else do I eat a lot of? Broccoli and sweet peas, sweet onions. I'm assuming sweet peas and onions will do alright but I'm guessing broccoli will bolt. Is that true? Thanks for your attention.
We grow avocados here, there are a number of varieties even haas types that do fine. All of the crops you mentioned are cool weather crops here from fall through spring. None of them will grow through the summer heat so you would have to preserve them in some way or use substitutes. I use fordhook chard for celery, rat tail radish for radish, chives and scallions for onion, etc.
@@TheUrbanHarvest thanks. Do you grow avocados yourself? It would be nice to see some of that sometime. My understanding was that hass types would not do well there.
@@vutEwa I still have to clear that part of the yard before planting. But yes. Hass can grow here to. Im planting oro negro which is a hass type.
@@TheUrbanHarvest Thank you for this valuable insight. I will do more research. I haven't heard of Oro Negro before, but most certainly I will research because I really want to move to Central Florida, preferably Lake County near Eustis/Umatilla. Have you gotten any harvests yet? I'm curious how it ranks in terms of butteryness compared of course to our glorious wonderful Hass avocados which I believe are the best here on the Central Coast of California where the growing season is longer so that the oil content accumulates more. These I eat now (direct from rancher) are super buttery and delicious.
@@TheUrbanHarvest Ahh, I see from this page that the oil content isn't so high. It's like the oil content of our late winter early spring Zutanos which I abhor and nearly refuse to eat :(
www.myavocadotrees.com/oro-negro-avocado.html
I am in Palm Beach County - a tad hotter than you ; Will all these greens grow just as well down here ? Thanks loved listening !
I’m in Jupiter area, my ghost peppers are doing good. My other peppers are doing fine but not producing fruit. I have Swiss chard and radishes.
Most of them will. Id hold off on collards, chard, and hot lettuce until September time.
I have purple sweet potatoe slips growing and I tasted one of the leaves the other day as I love All greens but it was so so bitter. Do you recommend a certain type for eating the leaves or do you add something in them to lesson the bitterness?
There are a lot of ornamental sweet potatoes used for landscaping purposes. Was this from potatoes you've eaten/grown or know to be edible? I've never really gotten a bitter taste from them before so I'm just guessing here...
Try growing the slips from Korean sweet potato or other Asian potatoes (go to Asian stores or ask your Asian friends to give you some). We like steaming the leaves, & dipping them in calamondin orange juice w/ soy sauce. Great w/ green or partially ripe tomatoes or cherry tomatoes.... Or you can boil it, use the juice w/ lemon for a more nutritious lemonade! I love how the lemon/calamondin orange can bring back the purple color.
@@TheUrbanHarvest it was just I purple skin sweet potato I bought in the produce Dept at Publix. I ate the leaf raw so it might be less bitter if I had cooked it. I love collards and they are bitter. I was just curious while in the garden and thought I would just see how it would taste. Looking back.. probably should have just sauteed it before eating 😂
Im in Tampa amd I was wondering if you knew of any sources for some of these. I have been looking for the katuk, longevity spinach and some of the others.
Green Dreams Fl
ECHO farm normally but they have shut down operations temporarily. Look for permaculture groups in your area as well.
I live in Lakeland and have lots of katuk. You can have some free cuttings to root yourself if you're ever in the Lakeland area. We typically allow people to stop by on Sunday for tours and I don't charge anything for cuttings. We have some videos on our channel but we are not extremely active in the video department.
Where do you purchase your seeds in Florida? Do you order your seeds online?
Yes I save some of my own seed and also purchase online. I like southern exposure, baker creek, johnny seeds, and occasionally burpee seed. I also carry a curated collection (from southern exposure) of varieties that grow well here in Florida. You can order them and I mail them out. Availability list is here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17DYNy7-dRM-nuidsAH07Sc85cY9vmDb6KLSlnZ5XDqY/edit?usp=sharing
@@TheUrbanHarvest Thank you so much for the information. I just learned about longevity spinach and ordered clippings from a person in Clearwater. I am thankful for people like you educating us on plants that grow well in Florida. I learned about the spinach from a guy named Will Grant. He is here in the Tampa area.
What county in Fl do you live in? I know that can make a difference.
Im in Pinellas county.
@@TheUrbanHarvest I'm starting a "Back to Eden" Garden in Pinellas County, Largo, and would love to visit your garden for a tour and some tips. I'm from Louisville, KY and my neighbor is from the Phillipines so we are looking forward to a fun time and a good harvest. Could we schedule a visit?
Where do you buy your seeds?
Here, there, everywhere : ) I use Southern Exposure first then branch out to Baker Creek, Johnny Seed, or Burpee Seed depending on what I'm looking for.
Slugs are brutal
I dont have them too bad luckily. When I do find them they go to the chickens!
@@TheUrbanHarvest I’ve had chickens for years but I’m taking a break from them. Love your channel. I’ve garden over the years in saint Pete . It’s been challenging. Thank you for sharing informative information. I just ordered my free compost bin from st. Pete. Did you get one?
@@doreenaitken5308 I do larger composting than the bins can hold but I have clients that have received them and use it.
Chickens will eat what you do not want.
For sure, mine love the pieces that get chewed by bugs because they often get the critter too!