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The Florida Perennial Garden
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Jermaine Jefferson

The Florida Perennial Garden

Jermaine Jefferson

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English
Growfitfl LLC
30 January 2026
Gardening; Gardening: plants
Tired of replanting your garden every single year? There's a better way.

Most gardening books give you advice that works great if you live in Pennsylvania. But here in Florida, our brutal summers, suffocating humidity, and sudden winter freezes kill the perennials those books swear will ""thrive in zones 8-10.""

I learned this the hard way. After killing $300 worth of blueberry bushes (they hate our alkaline soil) and watching expensive asparagus crowns rot in our summer rains, I realized Florida needs its own playbook.

This book is that playbook.

Inside, you'll discover the perennial crops that actually survive and produce in Florida's unique climate. No theory. No copy-paste advice from gardening websites. Just real results from my backyard food forest in west-central Florida, where I've been growing 30+ perennial crops for years.

You'll learn:

Which fruit trees handle our clay soil and summer floods (and why most nurseries sell you the wrong rootstock) The Caribbean crops that laugh at our August heat while your neighbors' tomatoes give up Exactly how to plant on mounds so your trees don't drown because Florida drainage is terrible Why cassava might be the most forgiving crop you'll ever grow (I've neglected mine for months and still harvest 40+ pounds) The truth about mulch in Florida (hint: what works up north creates problems here) Perennial vegetables that keep producing while you're at work, dealing with the kids, or just too exhausted to garden

I'm not going to promise you'll never have failures. I still kill plants. But you'll avoid the expensive mistakes I made, and you'll fill your yard with crops that actually want to grow here.

No more starting from scratch every spring. No more fighting plants that hate Florida.

Just perennials that produce, year after year, in the climate we actually have.

From the author of ""Grow Food Not Lawns"" (4.5 stars, 100+ reviews)
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Imprint:   Growfitfl LLC
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   331g
ISBN:   9798994773208
Pages:   244
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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