Hi everybody

Hi my name is Steve I am the head volunteer in charge of development and marketing for the Non-Profit Food for Everyone Foundation. We teach sustainable gardening around the world especially in low income areas. I am a big fan of web 2.0 . We have setup an account across all the major web 2.0 sites, please check our our Food for Everyone foundation web 2.0 contact information and say hi.

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Comment by Dennis on December 16, 2007 at 8:05pm: Hi Steve, I`m Dennis. Your foundation is fantastic. But I live in Florida where a lot of poor families have even tried to grow some form of a garden. It seems that the soil in Florida is cursed. What can we do to get our gardens growing so that we can contribute to others. I constantly run into people who have tried but failed.
Thanks

Comment by Steve on December 16, 2007 at 8:33pm: Dennis your soil is lacking the proper nutrients there are 16 all together. Three provided by the air and the other 13 we provide via the "Mittleider micro nutrient mix" You can find them here http://foodforeveryone.org/fertilizers/ I suggest you mix then with 20-20-20 and 3 lbs Epsom salt per the instructions. The "weekly feed" is like rocket fuel for plants.

Comment by Stephanie Fischetti on December 26, 2007 at 4:35pm: Hi Steve and Dennis. I live near Tampa, and I have found that burying fruit and vegetable scraps, adding lime where there have been pine trees, and mixing in topsoil or black cow brand soil helps a lot. Also, there are certain plants that do better in Florida. If the fruit sits on the ground, it will boil in the hot and rainy season and rot. Squash, for example, should be grown so that it sticks through a trellis, and is above the hot sandy soil. There are miniature varieties of eggplant that will grow on an above-ground-level plant. Also, okra resists nematodes and marigolds are supposed to discourage nematodes. Sometimes a gardener has to change what they grow to suit the climate and soil to a certain extent. Fruit trees are a favorite in Florida. If you have space, a guava tree might protect any citrus trees from the brown spot blight.

Comment by Stephanie Fischetti on January 17, 2008 at 1:16pm: I would like to correct my comment. Okra does not resist nematodes, but marigolds and zinnias are supposed to discourage them if you turn the dead plants into the soil at the end of the season. Also, guava protects against greening, not brown spot.

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