If you want to learn how to grow celery and carrots and spinach in your south Florida garden all year, stop reading now, because without boatloads of money and an air-conditioned greenhouse, it’s not going to happen.
Perennials are where it’s at, especially in tropical and subtropical climates.
Here’s why:
- Less work
- Less water
- Less fertilizing
- Fewer pest problems
- Better for the environment
- No need to work the ground before planting
- No need to build raised beds
- Plant once – eat for years
- Much longer harvest window
- Harvest year-round
- No separate area needed
- Most can be grown in containers
- Can be integrated into any garden – no HOA problems
- Colorful and beautiful year round
- Some can be harvested right away
- Fill any/every niche in a garden
- Cover every major aspect of nutrition
- Build and feed the soil