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Tom Carey

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From My Garden to Yours

While interacting with the reality surrounding us at our homes, we frequently practice the principles of permaculture.

Permaculture

Last call

Growing seasons encircling the calendar offer certain advantages to Central Florida gardeners, but the details bring the bliss back to reality.

Growing seasons encircling the calendar offer certain advantages to Central Florida gardeners, but the details bring the bliss back to reality.

From my garden to yours

Just a few degrees of temperature difference can spell survival for many plants for the whole year.

Time to “make hey”

From my garden to yours

Produce from my Sundew Gardens is now available online.

Nano-gardening

From my garden to yours

I both focus on avoiding the negative and attracting the positive

Gardening Resolutions

From my garden to yours

The best plan would have been to start the crops soon enough to reap a harvest by now.

Cold rain and snow

From my garden to yours

Keeping it simple for the holidays is the only way to maintain any semblance of sanity.

Cooking with the harvest

From my garden to yours

I will admit to never having much success at growing spinach.

Eat to the beet

From my garden to yours

The customers of my pick-your-own business help in reaping the harvest

People: the ultimate crop

From my garden to yours

A wide spectrum of salad greens can be reaped in a short period of time with minimal effort.

Spectrum of salad greens

From my garden to yours

Iceberg lettuce is not the variety we should grow

‘Salad days’ are here

From my garden to yours

The essence of time and money applied to the refuge of our garden is an unwelcomed mantra.

Return on investment

From my garden to yours

Fish emulsion enhances compost and compost tea in my garden’s fertilizer schedule.

Fishy fertilizer

From my garden to yours

Natural selection in the garden

Seek to understand the garden, not the task at hand. When these opportunistic crops present themselves, enable their benefits to your commerce.

From my garden to yours

Start seedlings for the autumn garden

With the start of Florida's garden year on hand, now is the time to start seedlings as transplants for our gardens.

From my garden to yours

Seeds of the Future

While most children envision gardening as simply the process of poking seeds into dirt, my contemplation of a seed is radically different. Seeds are the harbinger of human evolution and society.

From my garden to yours

Everyone can grow peppers

Every gardener has favorite varieties and plants, and one of mine happens to be peppers.

From my garden to yours

Natural pest controls

At Sundew Gardens, "natural and practical" is an operational parameter we've used since founding the gardens.

Local food for local people

From my garden to yours

Everyone has to eat. Of the three basic needs of food, shelter and clothing, a lack of food will bring on social chaos quicker than any governing body would care to admit.

From my garden to yours

By Tom Carey

Gardeners will save the world

From my garden to yours

Fun with edible flowers

Pretty, easy, fun, and tasty are all descriptive of the nasturtium, a plant all of us should be growing in our gardens

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