To late for a garden?

you have plenty of time, most things are around 60 days except winter squashes, parsnips,some corns.

We are just getting ready for planting, but I am in NW North Dakota. We have had a mild winter and spring, but in the past have also had snow in May. We had a short growing season so we start many things in the house. Tomatoes and peppers are started inside in March and we started the cukes, watermelon, cantaloupe. squash, cabbage and pumpkins in the house (cause we have early frosts in the fall and can have full blown winter by Oct) in the beginning of May. It really depends on your area. Good luck Carolyn

No you are not to late in East Texas. Your garden will be comeing in when others is going out

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You will have a hard time in July and Aug in TX when we get all the heat, you will need to water a lot, but if you can keep the stuff alive in the heat, you should have a nice harvest come fall. 50 x 100 is going to be a lot of work, I hope you have the time to take care of it. My first garden was 30 x 30 and it got away from me the first year. I think you are too late for seeds for most things though as they only have about 6 weeks to get the good root system they will need to carry them through the heat.
For those of you not familiar with TX weather its not unusual to have 60+ days near 100F in the days and near 90F at night -- we don't get the night cool off like most of the nation - and thats in north Texas!

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I already have baby tomatos on my plants!!! i like being spoiled. Want to come over for some garden fresh lettuce and tomatos??

It is almost always the end of May up to the end of June before I get my garden planted because we lay wet here. My garden always does great. I also still plant the usual cool weather plants & they always do fine. I do broccoli, cabbage, radishes, lettuce, peas, etc., & they produce fine. Besides other items. I am ne of those people that plant it & figure whatever it does, it does. Anything I get is better than nothing.

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Still plenty of time. One year we planted tomatoes on the 4th of July. A farmer I know puts in 300 acres of vegetables. he will plant up into september because if he has a warm fall he will make a killing with fresh produce at the supermarkets.

i'm only familiar with Ft. Hood, the most miserable eight months in my life. stood in mudd up to my A and had sand blow in my eyes at the same time.

Mulch the garden, too. It helps the plants deal with the heat in the summer.

Our spring garden in the coastal bend of Texas was put in last February, and it was mostly done by the time we left for Missouri in April. The lettuce had bolted; we had eaten all the broccoli, and we were bored with Swiss Chard.

We brought out tomato plants with us to Missouri, and we've planted a second spring garden here. This one has the summer veggies: Okra, eggplant, tomatoes, peppers, more Swiss Chard, beets, radishes, turnips, carrots, cucumbers.

If you give a bit of extra care for the plants, you can grow things in East Texas, even in the heat of the summer. There's also shade cloth if your garden is exposed to the sun all day.

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mc and co.

My mother still lives in East Texas.

She is just now putting in her garden, as the heavy rain this season put her garden plot under water all spring.

Considering the unseasonal wet, you *might* be better off planting tropical fruits and veggies. My mothers swears that if the weather keeps going like this, she is planting bananas and mangoes.

Texas has four different growing seasons. During *normal* weather patterns at this time of year, I would suggest investing in a drip irrigation system (I found some for less than $50 online that will work for a garden) or lots and lots of sprinklers that you can put on timers. The main problem with starting a garden late in East Texas is battling the heat and dryness.

Considering that it doesn't look like water is going to be that much of a problem this year, I would instead suggest that you look for very heat tolerant varieties of whatever you wish to plant.

Peppers will do very well if planted about now. They will also set in hot weather.

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