Florida Fruit & Vegetable Gardening: Plant, Grow, and Harvest the Best Edibles (Fruit & Vegetable Gardening Guides) - Softcover

Bowden, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591869056 ISBN 13: 9781591869054

Publisher: Cool Springs Press, 2015

Plant, grow, and harvest the best edibles for your garden!

Florida Fruit & Vegetable Gardening is an easy-to-use guide to growing edibles in the Sunshine State. Full-color images illustrate the more than 25 fruits and berries featured, and there are also more than 35 recommendations for the best vegetables to grow in this sometimes challenging climate. Helpful growing tips, icons, charts, and maps assist gardeners in planting the right edibles for their exact Florida location.

This is the perfect book for longtime Florida gardeners as well as newcomers to the state with its enviable twelve-month growing season. This updated edition of the original Guide to Florida Fruit & Vegetable Gardening (Cool Springs Press, 2010) includes new specimens and cultivars as well as updated information on the outbreak of citrus greening disease that has ravaged orange groves throughout the state, with recommendations on safe practices gardeners should follow. Make your garden healthy and happy with tips from expert gardener and horticulturalist Robert Bowden.

About the Author:

Robert Bowden has been the Executive Director of the City of Orlando's beautiful Harry P. Leu Botanical Gardens for twenty five years and earlier served as the Executive Director of the Atlanta Botanical Garden, the Director of Horticulture of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis, Missouri, and the Director of Horticulture of Old Westbury Gardens, Old Westbury, L.I., New York. 

Throughout the U.S., Robert's delightful photographs and enjoyable essays can be seen in a wide variety of gardening magazines and professional journals. He is an adjunct professor of horticulture at Valencia College and the author of several gardening books.

• Publisher: Cool Springs Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1591869056
• ISBN 13: 9781591869054
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256