Rampart Farmstead
Growing Guide
Learn how to grow Embers, Camino, and Encore strawberries in containers and raised beds right here in southwest Florida.
Growing Guide
Discover this fast-growing tropical fruit tree that thrives in southwest Florida's heat and bears sweet, cotton-candy-flavored berries nearly year-round.
Growing Guide
A striking edible ornamental with deep burgundy leaves and a tart, cranberry-like flavor — easy to grow and endlessly useful in the southwest Florida garden.
Growing Guide
A bold, easy tropical grown in both bi-color and tri-color forms that thrives in southwest Florida's heat and humidity.
Growing Guide
A bright, sunny yellow pollinator magnet and nutrient-rich chop-and-drop mulch plant that thrives in southwest Florida's heat.
Growing Guide
The South's native grape — learn to grow Welder, Traminette, and Carlos varieties in Florida for fresh eating, juice, and wine.
Growing Guide
Grow your own tropical fruit — a guide to Double Mahoi, Dwarf Cavendish, Truly Tiny, Gran Nain, and Blue Java bananas in southwest Florida.
Growing Guide
The most important plant you can grow for monarchs — a guide to tropical, white, butterfly, and giant milkweed and their value to pollinators in southwest Florida.
Growing Guide
A fast-fruiting tropical shrub that pumps out sweet-tart, vitamin-C-packed cherries nearly year-round — easy to grow and endlessly useful in the southwest Florida garden and kitchen.
Growing Guide
One of the easiest and most generous fruits you can grow — a guide to Pakistan, Dwarf Everbearing, Mojo, and Shangri-la mulberries in southwest Florida.