Just returned home from a 10 day cruise to Panama, Columbia, Costa Rica and Jamaica. It was great and I was able to visit several rain forests and took lots of pictures of some of the tropical plants from the different country's.
The only problem for my home garden is that I missed out on starting my tomato seeds. But now that I am back it will be time to catch up for my vegetable plantings. The local paper said that the optimum date here by Miami to plant the fall garden is October 16th.
Since I missed germinating my own seeds for my tomato plants I bought a couple from Lowe's. One is a Celebrity and the other Big boy. I am going to plant them in containers and follow the directions given by the Florida Extension service and see how they turn out. I try to grow tomatoes every year but always plant them in late spring and they burn up in the summer heat as well as get attacked by the summer bug explosion. This year I have decided to plant them at the correct time and follow the experts advice on their care. I hated paying retail price for the plants that I can start myself from seeds but the trip was worth the sacrifice. ---sanddune------
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