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New to Gardening and new advice

Posted by Heo360 florida (My Page) on
Sun, Aug 17, 14 at 20:34

Hello everybody

First of all, I�m new to gardening and new to the forum, so I apologize if I�m posting this message in the wrong place.
As stated before I am new gardener and I don�t know what I am doing wrong. I went to home depot the other day and bought four plants, tomato, pepper, eggplant and rosemary and two bags of soil. So I planted the plants, I was watering them every day and they were growing pretty fast. But then it started raining pretty much every day and I stopped watering then because it was raining. So I few days later I noticed that my tomato plant was dying, my pepper had some white spots on it and my eggplant lost all the flowers it had and for some reason is full of ants .

This is how my tomato looks like:
http://s10.postimg.org/cjy9mj7jt/IMAG2325.jpg

These are the spots on the pepper:
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So, I�m wondering if I did anything wrong or it was because of the rain. Also, my plants are against the fence and I�m wondering if they are not receiving enough sun. Also I live in Florida, does the weather has something to do?

Any help or guide for rookies will help
Thanks in advance.


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RE: New to Gardening and new advice

"Also I live in Florida, does the weather has something to do?"

Hugely so, mid-august in FL is an impossible time to get transplants to thrive. The thing to do is give those plants you bought no further thought, and while you are waiting for fall-garden planting time - a few weeks from now - read through the many, many threads on the FL gardening forum about growing vegetables there.

There are a number of veggie experts in Florida on that forum. It makes a very big difference as well as to whether you are in central florida/northwards or south central/southwards. Homestead is as different from Gainesville as Gainesville is from Atlanta, or perhaps more so.

You have to do some real research, and then expect to have several seasons of severe learning curve. Being a newbie when starting in FL is if anything an advantage, because you aren't burdened by a bunch of rules from northern gardening that simply don't apply to FL.


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RE: New to Gardening and new advice

What pnbrown said.

The University of FL has an excellent guide to vegetable growing in FL, including recommended varieties and planting dates for different parts of the state. Link below.

Here is a link that might be useful: UF IFAS vegetable guide


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RE: New to Gardening and new advice

Welcome to the adventure of gardening in Florida. :)

It looks like your tomato may have a virus and your pepper ha fungus or dense bug eggs. You might need to start over with the tomato.


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RE: New to Gardening and new advice

Right about now is the time to start the fall tomato crop from seed, in flats. Get a good seed-starting (not potting) mix.


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