It's September, so let's take a walk around the meadow and see what's growing on.
Fair warning: nothing here is perfectly quaffed. I didn't clean up first and then film the tour — if I waited until everything was tidy, there'd be no September tour at all. So this is the good, the bad, and the ugly, exactly as it is.
We've got persimmons having their best year yet, a sweet potato that turned up somewhere it has no business being, an olive tree I genuinely need your help with, and a cedar garden bed that finally gave up after six years.
⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 The honest tour — no cleanup first
0:40 The patio: rosemary, navel orange, June plum
2:35 Makrut lime, lemongrass, and the onion bed
3:35 The new Vego Gen 3 rolling planter
4:35 Propagation corner: GreenStalk, figs, volunteer basil
6:02 The avocado tree is gone
6:33 Puerto Rican black beans, and why I'm done with this trellis
7:40 The sweet potato that turned up where it shouldn't
8:43 Wait, do beans put roots down too?
9:22 Water tanks, yams, and a very slow pigeon pea
11:02 Mulch vs no mulch, the side by side
12:16 Torpedo grass and the landscape fabric experiment
13:09 A word about gardening in an older body
14:25 My olive tree is fruiting and I need your help
14:53 Persimmons: best year yet
17:14 Surprise bell peppers
18:04 Pineapple guava, and what a little extra water does
19:25 The land across the creek
21:43 Beauty berries, and letting the birds do pest control
23:00 Orchard Row
24:52 I built this compost bin, you can do hard things
27:22 The Thai eggplant that won't quit
29:19 Meet Audrey, and why she's getting evicted
31:06 The cedar bed post mortem: six years, $220
33:53 Bananas, and the world's tiniest bunch
35:30 Okra coffee?
36:33 The rain barrel, you were right
🙋 FOUR THINGS I'M ASKING YOU
1. How do you trellis heavy viners? After several years I've decided I don't like my setup. It's convenient, but the beans grow across the top where I can't reach, and it makes me not want to harvest — which is a ridiculous problem for a gardener to have. Tell me what works for you.
2. What do I do with olives? The olive tree is oliving and I have no idea what happens next. I could Google it. I'd rather you told me. I think it's an Arbequina.
3. Type Audrey in the comments. If you made it to the loofah bed, you know why. I don't care how you spell it — I'll know.
4. Should I excavate Audrey live? She's coming out and a new bed is going in her spot. Ripping the sides off won't take long; moving all that dirt will. Tell me if you want to watch it happen live.
🌱 WHAT'S GROWING IN THIS TOUR
Rosemary that thrives on neglect · navel and blood orange · makrut (kaffir) lime and lemongrass · June plum · strawberries · sweet potatoes absolutely everywhere · Puerto Rican black beans · yams · pigeon peas · shishito and bell peppers · Thai eggplant that will not quit · holy basil and Thai basil · cucumbers · okra gone woody on purpose · figs · persimmon · loquat · mulberry · pineapple guava (feijoa) · grapes · pawpaw · dragon fruit · elderberry · beauty berry · bananas · clumping bamboo · betel · turmeric · zinnias · and one very confused loofah named Audrey.
📍 I'm in zone 9b, northeast Florida. Any date I give you is mine, not yours. The methods travel — the calendar doesn't.
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I'm growing on a 1/4 acre suburban lot in northeast Florida, zone 9b. We have more than 80 individual fruit trees and shrubs and more than a dozen different kinds of annuals growing on this property. The slopes make for some interesting ways to garden, but we're trying to make the best of it.
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