The cool weather that allows south Floridians to grow many of our favorite veggies has left and the more tropical hot and humid weather has arrived. While many annual veggie gardens are winding down over the next couple months, we are entering a great time of year to plant tropical fruit trees and other heat tolerant plants.

Are you looking to get any fruit trees or other plants for the warmer time of year? If so, you might want to check out our Pre-Summer Garden Sale!

This will be happening this weekend, Saturday 4/27 and Sunday 4/28 from 10am-3pm at our nursery located in Miami’s Horse Country.

4590 SW 122nd Ave, 33175

Our nursery is well stocked will lots of different species and varieties. For example, we have 20 varieties of mangoes, 6 varieties of dragonfruit, 5 varieties of loquat and 4 varieties of passionfruit, just to name a few.

The cool weather that allows south Floridians to grow many of our favorite veggies is leaving and the more tropical hot and humid weather is around the corner.  While many annual veggie gardens will be winding down over the next couple months, we are entering a great time of year to plant tropical fruits!  

Yes, fruit trees can be long-lived and require varying amounts of space in a landscape.  Many large growing species can be kept small by selecting varieties that don’t grow as large and/or through regular pruning.

If any of you would like to grow your own fruit we can help!  Our nursery is well stocked will lots of different species and varieties.  For example, we have 20 varieties of mangoes that taste amazing, most of which don’t grow into giant trees!  To purchase our nursery is open by appointment but we can also deliver.  If you’d like help planting them and/or caring for them, we can help with that too!

Tropical Fruit trees:

• Abiu 
• Avocado (varieties Brogdon, Catalina, Choquette, Winter Mexican, Simmonds)
• Atemoya (varieties Gefner and Lisa)
• Banana (varieties Burro, Dwarf Plantain, Hua Moa, Manzano, Nam Wa)
• Barbados Cherry
• Bay Leaf
• Blackberry (variety Brazo)
• Black Sapote (Chocolate Pudding Fruit)
• Cacao (Chocolate)
• Calamondin
• Canistel (Egg Fruit)
• Carambola (Star Fruit, varieties Kari, Fwang Tung, Sri Kembangan)
• Cattley Guava
• Cherry of the Rio Grande
• Coconut
• Coffee
• Curry 
• Custard Apple
• Dragon Fruit (varieties Natural Mystic, Pepino Dulce, Physical Graffiti, Red Jaina, Vietnamese Jaina, Zamorano)
• Elderberry
• Fig  (varieties Generi and Brown Turkey)
• Green Sapote
• Grumichama (Brazilian Cherry)
• Guanabana (Soursop)
• Guava (Varieties Ruby Supreme and White)
• Hog Plum (Red Mombin or Jocote)
• Jaboticaba (Common and red)
• Jackfruit (Varieties Orange Crush and Small)
• June Plum (Ambarella)
• Key Lime
• Longan (variety Kohala)
• Loquat (varieties Bradenton, Champaigne, Christmas, Oliver, Yehuda)
• Lychee (Varieties Brewster, Mauritius)
• Malay Apple
• Mamey (Varieties Magaña, Pantin aka Key West)
• Mammee Apple
• Mango (Varieties Angie, Alphonso, Carrie, Cogshall, Coconut Cream, Dot, Fairchild, Fruit Punch, Glenn, Julie, Keitt, Lancetilla, Lemon Meringue, Mallika, Nom Doc Mai, Orange Sherbet, Piña Colada, Rosigold, Sweet Tart, Tebow, Val Carrie)
• Miracle Fruit
• Monstera deliciosa
• Mulberry (varieties Everbearing and Pakistani)
• Muntingia (Jamaican Cherry)
• Muscadine Grape (variety Alachua)
• Mysore Raspberry
• Papaya (variety Dwarf Red Lady)
• Passion fruit (varieties “Flavcarpa, “Panama Red”, Possom Purple” and “Giant Granadilla”)
• Peach (variety Florida Grande)
• Pineapple (variety White Jade, others unknown)
• Plantain
• Pomegranate
• Rollinia
• Sapodilla (Variety Alano)
• Sea Grape
• Sugar Apple (Sweetsop)
• Star Apple or Caimito (variety Possom Purple)
• Tamarind
• Wampi (Possom)
• Wax Jambu
• White Sapote

For an updated price list, please send an email to dylan@ready-to-grow.com

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Our next class at our edible garden center is coming up! Saturday February 23rd from 10am-noon participants will get to see/participate in demonstrations of:

– Harvesting
– Pruning
– Weeding
– Bed Preparation
– Amending soil
– Planting
– Mulching
– Trellising
– Organic Fertilization
– Pest Identification & Management

We will also have a basic propagation demonstration showing how to propagate from seeds, cuttings and division.

Space is limited so if you’d like to attend, we recommend registering soon. We are planning for there to be many more classes at our nursery and would love for you to join us!

Tickets available through Eventbrite here:
https://gardenharvestandmaintenanceworkshop.eventbrite.com

We’re very excited to announce our third official class at our nursery “Intro to Growing Your Own Food” which will take place Saturday, December 15th, 10am-noon. In this class we will cover the basics of how to grow your own food including:

– Determining the best location of your garden and getting it started

– The importance of sun exposure

– Understanding soil and how to improve it

– How to water

– Crop choices and timing

– Planting seeds

– Basics of maintenance (harvesting, weeding, amending soil, succession planting, organic fertilization, organic pest management)

In addition to covering the basics, we will include a tour of our demonstration garden with a demonstration!

Space is limited so if you’d like to attend, we recommend registering soon on our eventbrite page. Also, there is limited seating so we encourage attendees to bring their own chairs if possible in case we don’t have enough. We are planning for there to be many more classes at our nursery and would love for you to join us!

We are in the middle of fall and both gardeners and many plants are thriving in the cooler weather. It is great to be once again harvesting some of our favorite cool weather crops! We will be planting plants for the cooler weather till February. Our nursery is full of edible plants ready for a new home, perhaps your garden!

December Edible Garden Sale
12/1, 10am – 3pm
4590 SW 122nd Ave, 33175

We have an excellent selection of veggie and herb plants that we have grown organically, including 20-30 varieties of tomatoes! For certain crops that are best “direct seeded” in your garden we have seed packs available. We also have a wide selection of tropical fruit trees.

If attending the sale, it’s appreciated if customers bring a box or container for carrying plants to help reduce our use of plastic.  Also, for every 15 4″ plastic pots or 4″ pot holding tray returned to us we will give you a free plant (4″ pot)!

In addition to edible plants we will have other supplies for your edible garden including our rich soil blend, composted mulch, and our custom organic fertilizer blend!

We’re very excited to announce our second official class at our nursery “Intro to Growing Your Own Food” which will take place Saturday, November 17th, 10am-noon. In this class we will cover the basics of how to grow your own food including:

– Determining the best location of your garden and getting it started

– The importance of sun exposure

– Understanding soil and how to improve it

– How to water

– Crop choices and timing

– Planting seeds

– Basics of maintenance (harvesting, weeding, amending soil, succession planting, organic fertilization, organic pest management)

In addition to covering the basics, we will include a tour of our demonstration garden with a demonstration!

Space is limited so if you’d like to attend, we recommend registering soon. Also, there is limited seating so we encourage attendees to bring their own chairs if possible in case we don’t have enough. We are planning for there to be many more classes at our nursery and would love for you to join us!

Visit our eventbrite page for tickets!

Fall is here and both gardeners and many plants are excited for the cooler temperatures in the coming months. It is really great to be planting gardens for the cool weather again! Our hoophouse is full of edible plants ready for a new home.

November Edible Garden Sale
11/3 & 11/4, 10am – 3pm
4590 SW 122nd Ave, 33175

We have an excellent selection of veggie and herb plants that we have grown organically, including 20-30 varieties of tomatoes! For certain crops that are best “direct seeded” in your garden we have seed packs available. We also have a wide selection of tropical fruit trees lush after a steamy rainy summer.

If attending the sale, it’s appreciated if customers bring a box or container for carrying plants to help reduce our use of plastic.  Also, for every 15 4″ plastic pots returned to us we will give you a free plant (in a 4″ pot)!

In addition to edible plants we will have other supplies for your edible garden including our rich soil blend, composted mulch, sifted compost and our custom organic fertilizer blend!

We’re very excited to announce our first class at our nursery “Intro to Growing Your Own Food” which will take place Saturday, October 20th, 10am-noon.  In this class we will cover the basics of how to grow your own food including:

– Determining the best location of your garden and getting it started

– The importance of sun exposure

– Understanding soil

– How to water

– Crop choices and timing

– Planting seeds

– Basics of maintenance (harvesting, weeding, amending soil, succession planting, organic fertilization, organic pest management)

In addition to covering the basics, we will include a tour of our demonstration garden and a hands-on planting activity.

Space is limited so if you’d like to attend, we recommend registering soon.  Also, there is limited seating so we encourage attendees to bring their own chairs if possible.  We are planning for this to be the first of many classes at our nursery and would love for you to join us!

Visit our eventbrite page for tickets!