A Beginner's Guide to Florida Gardening: Find the Joy of Growing Food and Flowers in the Subtropics

by Jacqueline Litton

Florida is an amazing place to garden! You can grow hundreds of pounds of healthy home-grown fruits and vegetables. You can enjoy a rainbow of flowers blooming year-round. You can savor the songs of birds and watch as butterflies peacefully glide by from your patio. But many new Florida Gardeners struggle when they follow classic gardening advice. The reason - Florida is different. From Florida’s seasons, sun, soil, and wildlife; many gardeners find it hard to get started because the fundamentals of gardening are different down here in the subtropics of Florida. A Beginner’s Guide to Florida Gardening will help you build your understanding from the ground up in a very simple and fun way. You will learn how So skip the stress and start getting excited to grow an Oasis of Beauty that will bring you Joy!

Genres: Gardening

128 pages, Paperback

Published July 31, 2023

Reviews

[Nancy rusk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Intro to Florida gardening

Florida gardening IS different! Jacqueline Litton does a great job explaining how and why, with heart and humor and great appreciation for the crazy seasons, for native plants, for building a little healing link for the soul and the earth. I’m not technically the target audience for this book, I’ve lived in Florida my whole life rather than trying to adjust from a northern clime. I still learned a lot!

[Janessa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rating: 2.5

The informal blogger voice makes this a breezy read for anyone but I think this book is most helpful for people who have already started gardening and are looking for a next step. I am entering Year 3 and that is my case. Because there are very few visuals, I wouldn’t recommend this book to a beginner.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unlimited

For honest Review for Someone who lives in Florida this explains a lot why trying to grow stuff is backwards. Lots of great information.

[Jeanie]

Refererance

[Izzy Iglesias Schober · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the book I didn't know I needed. it is so easy and so intuitive when it comes to gardening in Florida. Florida is different from other states when it comes to cultivating both vegetables and flowers as well as fruiting trees. this guide was so easy to read and to follow that I still keep it around when I need to go and check for some references. 🦋