Totally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening: The Secret to Growing Piles of Food in the Sunshine State

by David The Good

Are you tired of failing at your Florida gardening? Are stink bugs ravishing your tomatoes and nematodes gnawing at your eggplants? Is the sand eating your compost like an RV swallows gas? Fear not. You CAN grow buckets upon buckets of food in Florida - and this book gives you the secrets to pulling it off year after year. Lots more food - for a lot less work! Whether you want to save money, feed your family, start a survival garden, garden year-round, go paleo or build a huge prepper garden, this is the book for you. Learn the cheap simple techniques that will kickstart your Florida gardening. Discover the crops that will always come through for you. Quit hating the sand and the bugs and start reaping abundant harvests like you've never had before! This book provides the answers for both beginners and experts, delivered with humor. If you want yet another boring gardening book - this isn't it. Through combining Back to Eden gardening, Square Foot Gardening, Biointensive gardening, container gardening and some of the most productive crops on the planet, you WILL succeed! This is easy Florida gardening like you've never seen before. Pick up a copy of Totally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening and turn your backyard patch of weeds and sand into a money-saving vegetable factory that will keep your family fed no matter what the economy does. Start gardening RIGHT NOW before it's too late! Expert Florida gardener David The Good shares how in Totally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Green

114 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2015

Reviews

[nita Savader · Rating 4 out of 5]

For those who say you can't grow vegetables in Florida

This book shows all the Northern home gardeners that you can be successful in growing veges in FL. Everyone warns you that you can't grow tomatoes, but there are varieties that can grow.

[Lisa · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was a quick but discouraging read. I have had gardens in TN and according to this author the vegetables I like to grow the most cannot be grown here. I will take his advice about citrus though. I found that hard to believe since the seeds are sold here and marketed for this area. I will have to research further.

[Varrick Nunez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant, probably due for an update. So many things I have been doing wrong in my Florida garden. I feel better armed. Probably will buy a copy as the library copy is in much demand and kind of beat up tbh.

[Margaret Agard · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book for southern gardening

We've been following Dave the Good on YouTube since we moved to Florida and began dealing with deadly heat rather than unexpected frosts, sand instead of clay and fire ants. He's gathered all of his wisdom and experience into this one place. We're at last understanding southern, especially Florida, gardening and getting the results we'd been missing before. Thanks Dave.

[Alisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Totally crazy great read!

I chose to read David's book because I live in Central Florida and want to be a hard core gardener. However, I grew up in the midwest and need to learn what it takes to be as awesome a gardener as I was in those colder seasons. David's book opened my eyes to not just gardening in Florida, but year-round growth of delicious foods. I can't wait to experiment like he does and grown my own foods year-round despite our miserable humid summers. Thanks David!

[Krystal · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would say this isn't for beginners; I needed to look up a few things the author expected me, as a complete and utter novice, to understand without explanation but I appreciated the candid opinions of the author. As I look to start gardening in Florida, completely different than the little experience I learned growing up in the northeast, this was a good introduction to the big difference in what will grow and what will not (at least not without a LOT of expert intervention which I am a long way from at this point).

[Daniel Stokes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informative

Quick read. I'm not actually in Florida but with a climate very similar to north Florida, I got some useful information from it. He specifies if something will do better in north or south Florida which was pretty useful. Also made me feel a little better about the sorry state of my bell pepper plants lol. Definitely recommend if you're zone 8b or higher, even if you're not in Florida

[Rhonda · Rating 4 out of 5]

David The Good is hilarious. Although I have been gardening for decades, I learned a lot of things about gardening in Florida in this book that I should have known including the proper way to plant cassava, growing Chaya in sun and shade, growing ginger in shade, and why I do not get as many bell peppers as I should.

This is a quick, informative read for Florida gardeners.

[Shimrit Hanes · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the most amazing book for Florida gardeners. It has taken us from 'everything dying' to a flourishing and successful garden. His humorous and engaging writing stye make his books a fun read as well as easy to learn and remember, gardening how to.

[amber · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy and Informative Read

This was an easy read with witty humor and good information for first time gardeners. Please note the information is primarily geared toward gardening issues of the Southern region.

[Tracy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wish it had more information about growing vegetables.

[Quilla · Rating 2 out of 5]

Please don’t just try to start growing things you find from other countries. We have a serious invasive exotic problem in this state that we do not need to add to.

[Sharon M Schweitzer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful!

I found this book to be extremely helpful.

Would recommend for any south Florida gardener looking where to start.

Thank you, David.

[Heather Dicus · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun to read, great info, quick and detailed

[Tine! · Rating 5 out of 5]

I laughed - I actually laughed several times, while reading this gardening book. That should tell you something. Oh, and I’m ready to move to South Florida.

[Heidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great reference for those trying to grow food in Florida by working WITH the climate.

[Carisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just finished this book. Brb. Gonna go read it again. Everything David writes is pure gardening gold!

[William Harrington · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great suggestion on what to grow and what will do well in a tropicL climate. Learning is good. I ha e to try a couple more of his books.

[Skylar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quick, practical, entertaining read! I’m excited to put many of his tips and ideas into practice in my garden!

[Nichole · Rating 5 out of 5]

I need to buy this book so I can be inspired over and over again when I’m creating my own food Forest!

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just okay

I had hoped this would include more about soil ammendment and even break soil requirements in FL down by plant, but it fell short there.

[Emily Hamric · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fairly quick read and wondeeful addition to a gardening library! This is a book I will refer back to frequently.

[Obsidian Hoffman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quick with great tips

Not a long read and a lot of amazing suggestions whether you wanna work hard or have a lazy permaculture food forest garden that you don’t have to worry about too much

[Cara Dobrev · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author seems a bit extreme, but the information is helpful for a Florida vegetable gardener. It's a book I'll hang on to.

[Keena P Turner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of good growing tips

Good tips for the near-tropical gardener where the plants and techniques successful in temperate realms don’t necessarily apply. Easy reading.

[Chelsie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love gardening books and this one was really helpful for Florida specific strategies!