@beckygardener,
Yes, I try to grow edibles here in FL. This is my first year gardening here after moving from the Midwest. I saw your comment in another thread about fighting the pests and diseases ... I can totally relate. I'm hoping this 2nd planting for the Fall will yield better results than the Spring planting. No tomatoes at all from the spring planting ... pests totally destroyed both attempts at zucchini. Disease got the first cucumbers, then pests ravaged the 2nd planting. I did manage to get some green beans and the peppers did OK. I am limited to growing in containers, but I don't think that matters ... I've already decided that if this Fall planting of tomatoes is a total failure, I think I'm done fighting all the problems with them. I'd love to have some good, home-grown tomatoes, but I'm beginning to think that is just a pipe dream. After pests/disease wiped out the first tomatoes, I even bought a couple of plants at Home Depot that were supposedly developed to do well here in FL ... same results. They start out looking great, then something gets them. I had the plants in earthboxes so the watering should be even and I've had great success using earthboxes in the past. I know people grow edibles here in FL, but I have to wonder how much chemicals they have to use to get a crop to produce. I even resorted to Sevin on the earlier tomatoes and that didn't even slow the pests down. BT did take care of the tomato worms, but whatever the other critters were weren't phased by the Sevin.
