What to Plant in the Tower Garden in April in FL

Ahhh.... April in Florida! Balmy weather, refreshing dry winds, sunshine for days, and bumper crops! It's a great time to visit for those seeking sunshine and warmer temperatures as the days get longer. And it brings out the gardener in all of us!

Plant flowers, cucumber, squash, heat resistant lettuces, peppers, and herbs in April!

However, those of us who know, also know that temperatures will rise soon, bringing May rain, heat & humidity!

What should a Tower Gardener plant in the Tower Garden FLEX in April? Warm season crops! Warm-season crops do best if temperatures are above 70 F. These include green beans, Everglades tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, tropical squash, summer squash, pumpkins, Piracicaba broccoli and melons.

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A TINY SOUTH AMERICAN TOMATO FOR APRIL!

Everglades tomatoes are a teeny, tiny, incredibly prolific wild tomatoes that will produce in late spring and late summer, possibly even through the dead of summer, and do fantastic in Florida!

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Can I still grow lettuce? Yes, you can! The cooling power of the tower allows us to beat the seasons!

HEAT TOLERANT LETTUCE

Muir Lettuce (grows in even the hottest weather)

Jericho Romaine Lettuce

Simpson Elite

Sparx Romaine

Other varieties include: Tropicana looseleaf, Adrianna Bibb, Nevada lettuce, Cherokee, Magenta, Spring Mix, and Crisphead.

Muir lettuce & Prospera basil (both from Johnny's Selected Seeds) can handle our extreme heat. Muir stays fresh, crispy, and sweet in the Tower Garden...even in central Florida.

Seminole Pumpkins thrive in the Tower Garden all summer long!

SQUASH Desert Zucchini Squash-Aehobak Korean 

Squash Teot Bat Put Avocado Tatume

Squash Calabaza (AKA Seminole Pumpkin)

BROCCOLI Broccoli-Brazilian Sprouting Piracicaba

Piracicaba broccoli grows year round in most of Florida!

GREENS

Chijimisai

Tokyo Bekana (delicious green that has a lettuce-like texture)

Dinosaur Kale (comes with the Tower Garden)

Starbor Kale

Callaloo

Perpetual Spinach Beet

Swiss Chard (comes with the Tower Garden)

Spinach- Malabar Large Leaf Green Stem

Amaranth-White Leaf

Red Amaranth

New Zealand Spinach

Purslane

Molokhia Egyptian Spinach

CELERY

Tango

HERBS

Basil- Sweet Basil - Rutgers Obsession Downy Mildew Resistant

Greek Oregano

Mojito Mint (please trim the roots on this every month) 

Peppermint (please trim the roots on this every month)

Tarragon Texas

Broad Leaf Sage

Lemon Basil

Chives

Flat Leaf Parsley

CUCUMBER

Cucumbers are the perfect late spring crop for Florida! See all the varieties you can grow in this blog.

Cucumbers get attacked by pickleworms. Proptect them with grow bags!

HERBS

Dill

Lemongrass

Thyme

Basil (all varieties)

PEPPERS

Sweet specialty peppers  (like sweet banana and Italian frying peppers do very well in summer)

Pepper-Big Red (May not produce well in the dead of summer...

Hot peppers thrive in our FL summers)

EGGPLANT

Chinese Bride Eggplant:

Mizuno Takumi Japanese Eggplant:

Shoya Long Japanese Eggplant:

Fairy Tale Peppers

FLOWERS (for attracting pollinators and preventing pests)

Red Gem Marigolds

Calendula

Coreopsis

Marigold

Dwarf Sunflower

BEANS AND PEAS

Bush Green Beans

Pinkeye Purple Hull Cowpea

King of the Garden Lima Bean

White Long Bean

Red Noodle Bean

FRUIT

Ichiba Kouji Honeydew Melon

Poha Berry (these don’t always produce well in summer but will start producing in fall when it cools down a little. They like to germinate in hot weather and produce in spring and fall):

Watermelon (I have trouble growing good watermelon – hopefully, you will do better than me!)

Hakucho Cantaloupe

Ginkaku Melon

Questions, comments? Reach out to Leah!