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We are in South Florida. I'm hoping if I plant flowers that they like and place out a feeder, they will come.

Anyone else requesting Mimosa sprouts?

Sent a PM/e-mail to Joanns Cottage, interested.

Do you know what kind of plants/flowers that can be planted in S FL to attract hummingbirds?

ditto

lavacaw-we are in Palm Beach County. What type of organic matter did you use? Did you till into the garden area prior to planting, or place around the plants once they started growing?

This was our first garden, so we are defintely still learning. Our corn was growing beautifully, then it got brown spots, probably some type of disease on the stalks. We only picked two squash from a whole packet of seeds, which was a nice size row. Green bean grew beautifully, until it got so...

Ellie-how do you keep your beds free of weeds?

What months of the years do you normally plant your gardens? What do you plant? We planted ours in towards the end of March and it is way to hot for the plants right now, they are all dying one type at a time. First was the green beans, squash and now the corn. Everything was thriving before it...

What did you plant and can you share any secrets?

This is our first garden, and we are learning alot. Now we have brown spots on our corn stalks. Has this ever happened to anyone? Its silver queen.

coopy-I found the article, very interesting and I love the info about the ladybugs. I will defintely try to find a website that sells them.

scrapmom5, that is what I was afraid of. We are in South Florida, and the days are long and hot already. The beans and squash are in the full sun all day. I'm not sure how I would shade them.

This is our first garden, so we are learning along the way. We live in Florida, so the days are getting very hot. Out of all our squash plants, we have only harvested two. Now the plants are starting to turn really yellow and terrible. Is this normal for them to start changing colors or are they...

Thank you to everyone for your replies. I have a few that should have or can be picked. Good luck to everyone with your gardens.

This is my first garden. How do I know when the squash is ripe and ready to be picked?

Thank you, I will defintely try and eventually let some chickens loose in there to have a field day.

My husband did in fact see a caterpillar in the garden, I have yet to see one. It is eating holes in the leaves of brocolli and my pepper plants, which were all planted a couple of weeks ago. Wuld a simple spray of soap and water on the plants deter the caterpillar or any other insects?

Can anyone give me a suggestion on what to spray my garden to keep the bugs from eating all my plants? Whatever it is, it's eating round holes in all the plants.