Some foods that can be VERY EASILY grown in Central Florida that provide an abundance of food, enough to eat and share:
Katuk- 🍃 I’ll never stop talking about katuk! It is a small tree/bush that produces small leaves that are sweet to taste (delicious!) and also highly nutritious with half its weight in protein. It provides edible greens all year round and makes a really pretty addition to a mixed hedge. (It can fall over so I like to give it friends) also can be grown in a container on a balcony.
Sweet potatoes- 🍠 the whole plant is edible!!! The leaves are delicious and nutritious and we all know how delicious sweet potatoes are. Provides a beautiful ground cover and produces a ton in even small spaces.
Sun chokes- 🌻 so much food!!!! Entire plant is edible but most people eat the tubers. In sunflower family and is also very beautiful. Know that where you plant it, it may always exist.
Barbados cherry: 🍒 pretty shrub that does great in Florida with little care. Produces several flushes of cherry fruits throughout the year. Mass production and cherries are high in vitamin c.
Pigeon peas- 🫛 produces a ton of peas, goes well in a mixed hedge and is a nitrogen fixing plant! (Improves soil health)
I have and will share all of these (except sun chokes, I’m working on getting some) please let me know if you’d like some for your home garden. 🪴
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