thanks tx4...i've grown G-90 corn...what do u grow???

I get my seed from Wilhites in Poolville, TX (just down the road). I've always done candy corn.

This is my first year with fall corn and am doing Bodacious.

Haven't posted in a while ,this mornings gather.

Good looking okra.

That's what she said!

Of all things that failed this year, was my okra.

Update on my tomatillos....they made their pods and waiting and wondering if the fruit is forming inside. I guess time will tell.

I doubt I will grow these again......they are so cheap at the Mexican market.

This is my first year growing Okra. They've done really good. I'm growing them in garden buckets which sucks and I won't do again. The bottom holes are too big and the soil dries out really quickly. I did some research on okra prior to planting and high phosphorus(the middle NPK number) is best for them. So you need to go high in that number.

I'm growing 5 plants. 3 Clemson and 2 Texas Longhorns. I read up on cropping okra. So I cropped 2 Clemson and 1 TL. From what I read I would lose about 3 weeks of production. It's been about 6 really. Growing in buckets surely have something to do with the extra weeks. When I cropped them they looked basically like bare sticks. But they have come back like gangbusters. Short and really bushy and sprouting flowers like crazy now. They will out produce the ones I didn't crop easily even with the lost weeks. Next year I will start okra much earlier. These pics won't do a lot of justice, but I'll be a cropper from now on.

Not much on topping the okra would rather bend the plant over. About 10 to 12 ft tall so far .my habanero plants are putting on like crazy and fall tomatoes are setting fruit nicely .

I hated to do it..but had to spray the corn with Malathion. Bugs were insane.

My favorite insecticide! My dad use to buy several drums at a time and I got to mix in the water in a 500 gallon tank.

planted 2nd round of broccoli/cabbage 2dy...1st batch looks perty good...mite make some Roma II green beans b4 frost

Looking good sir !
Came back from a weekend at the lake and the peppers and maters looked to be in full swing.
Ghost ,habanero and fall tomatoes getting with it !

Looking at starting a garden in the Spring . I have no clue on what I'm doing .
Looks like most you guys have raised beds , why not just plant on the flat dirt?

What kind of prep work do I need to do for the garden area? Has grass so I guess remove it, till it , then what?

Thanks

You'll get lots of options and advice what to do. Pretty good group of gardeners in here. And we all do it a little to a lot different from each other so try different methods until you get the results you like and that you like doing. I use the more organic approach and have been for years and I like the results. So this is my way. I was an in ground grower until this year I made raised beds. I went raised really just to try it and I really like it. I did 4'x4'x 8" boxes. They have been easy to manage and I'm going to add a couple more.

Nothing wrong with in ground. I sprayed my area with 20% vinegar and orange oil to kill off the grass and then tilled it up. Added black kow manure, lava sand, greensand, feed store cornmeal, cottonseed meal or soybean meal, alfalfa pellets, dry molasses and compost, etc, lol. I did the exact same thing in my raised bed it just cost me a little more upfront to fill up the boxes than it would to just till it into the ground since I had to buy more soil and compost. But future maintenance will be about the same cost as in ground now.

I'm more into soil microbes and biodiversity in the soil. So if was you I would go ahead and till up the soil now and mix in at least some good compost at a minimum to go ahead and get the area breaking down, increasing microbes and earthworms to get ready for spring.

I'll stop here as it sounds a little overwhelming, but it's actually pretty easy.

Thank you very much , it does sound complicated, I do like the more natural approach as well . Il do some thinking in this and see if I want to go in the ground or in boxes , thanks