Planting Season Florida: The Year-Round Vegetable Gardening Playbook for Florida's Upside-Down Growing Year

Grow food all year in Florida, from the Panhandle to the Keys, with a calendar built for a year that runs upside down. Every gardening book written for somewhere else gets Florida backwards. Here the brutal season is summer, not winter, and the best vegetable growing runs from fall through spring while the rest of the country is frozen. Plant a tomato in June because that is what the national calendar says, and the heat, humidity and bugs will take it. Planting Season Florida gives you the calendar that actually fits this state, plus the soil, water and pest playbook that keeps a home garden productive twelve months a year.

Written for Florida's five growing zones, the Panhandle and North Florida with real winter frost, the North-Central belt around Ocala, the Central Florida baseline through the Orlando and Tampa corridor, frost-free South Florida, and the true tropics of the Deep South and the Keys, this guide turns the upside-down year into a simple month-by-month plan. You will know what to sow this week, what will shrug off the heat, what to grow through the mild winter, and when to pick.

What you get inside: A true Florida planting calendar with the best sowing windows for every major crop, built around the fall-to-spring main season and the short, strategic summer garden. A full plant library of more than 100 crops that produce here, from cool-season greens and the winter tomato window to okra, sweet potato, Seminole pumpkin, boniato and the tropical staples, each with spacing, sun, water, pests and companions. Soil playbook for Florida's sand, how to build organic matter that will not simply wash away, and honest advice for raised beds over sugar sand and marl. Pest and disease field guide for the pressure that never lets up in a warm, humid state, from nematodes and stink bugs to the fungal blights of the wet season, all handled organic-first. Water strategy for the summer downpours and the dry spring, plus a hurricane-season protocol for the garden. Companion planting, organic sprays, a beneficial-insects chapter, crop rotation, seed saving, composting and worm farming in the heat, small spaces and rentals, and real Florida case studies. A native and heritage edibles chapter, from Seminole pumpkin to cranberry hibiscus and Everglades tomato. A Real Talk voice throughout, with honest advice on what to skip, when to let the garden rest through the worst of summer, and how to stop fighting the calendar and start working with it. Who it's for: New Florida gardeners who moved from up north and watched their spring garden melt in June. Renters with a lanai and a few pots who want salad and herbs through the mild winter. Families wanting homegrown food, lower grocery bills and a garden that feeds them when the northern gardens are asleep. Why this book is different:
It was written for Florida and its upside-down year, and structured around the five zones inside the state, so a Pensacola reader and a Key West reader get different advice, not the same bland guidance.

Pair it with the free Planting Season app at plantingseasons.com for month-by-month alerts, watering reminders, and the full plant library on your phone. Your book includes three free months of Pro.

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