It's Time for Gardening in Texas

Jed Clampett would call my 2011 summer garden piiiitiiiful. Here are my green beans in early July and I watered them twice a day. Houston averages 2.3 days over 100° and this year we had 46, beginning in June. They didn't have a chance.

But now it's Fall and hope springs eternal. (Ignore the dead St Augustine. I am until Spring.)

Bed 1 already gets no sun so we'll start with
Bed 2
Back row: brussels sprouts, next row: cauliflower with garlic top and bottom along the strings, next row: bok choy, cauliflower, and a row of radishes along the string below, front row: 2 squares chard, collards, mustard greens.


Bed 3
Left: 1st skinny row is carrots, 2 rows of Romano green beans with beets in front, "empty" row is green cabbage, last row is bell peppers with 2 squares of red cabbage behind them.


West fence
Green trellis to left is sugar snap peas with Romaine in front, next trellis pickling cucumbers with yellow squash in front, next trellis sugar snap peas with zucchini in front, invisible chicken wire trellis snow peas with 2 rows of turnips in front.


Chain link on garage
Salad cucumbers and Blue Lake green beans. Faces west and I don't think they're going to make it since they don't get enough sun each day. Beans are flowering tho, so we'll see.


My favorite genetically modified plant is this bell pepper. It has red, yellow, and green peppers all on one plant. The second amazing thing is those eggplant colored peppers turn green when they're ripe.



Baby cucumbers, baby zucchini


Green onions, parsley. Waiting 2 wks for them to get big enough to spread out.