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Where in Texas? We might be neighbors. Oh, and this year I am having a bumper crop of peppers. Tomato season wasn't all that great but it looks like melons are going to be excellent. Got a ton of green beans but the deer ate all the okra. If you plant in Jan. or Feb you must be in the Valley.
dallas, specifically glenn heights, and i'm having a bumper crop of tomatoes, the biggest juliets i've ever grown. the peppers are nothing to sneeze at; i know there are at least eight ripe out there now, and i already ate four, and there are little ones. it takes years (if you don't have the money to just buy a ton of garden soil, which i don't) of compost and grass clippings and manure to make this "soil" into something that can nourish things. i'm from utah--you could dump the old maids out of your popcorn while walking across a field, and harvest a corn crop two months later. the soil is amazing. i've been working on this for four years now.
Dallas. So you're in that Blackland Prarie Clay soil. I grew up in that soil. My tomatoes have just about burned up. I'm on a well so my water is a tad limited and I am using it on melons and peppers. I still have a lot of canned tomatoes and sauce from last year so my dismal tomato crop isn't so painful. At least you have had plenty of rain. Here not very much