Sunflowers

Robert wanted sunflowers in the garden.  I put them behind the cucumbers.

Our "Bigger" Garden

We planted sugar snap peas, snow peas, onions, carrots, potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, corn and green beans.   The soil is so sandy, I was watering everyday until we finally got some decent rain.

Yes you can Square Foot Garden in Houston....

Just start early.  It is gets hot quick and so it is a short season.  Not shown in the pictures are tomatoes which did well.  If I still lived there I would try to grow lettuce in the fall/winter.   

Peppers, dill, arugula, lettuce, squash, carrots, beets, cucumbers

The tomatoes I picked on Thanksgiving Day are actually turning red!

Green Tomatoes anyone?

Two days before our first freeze, I was forced to harvest all of our green tomatoes.  These were growing on the spring tomato plants that survived the summer drought.  That is a lot of small tomatoes!  Fried or pickled or doused in sugar are not options.  Hopefully, they will ripen in the kitchen.  Dang, they take up a lot of space.  Since they are green and red, maybe I can pass them off as Christmas decorations?

Our Fall Garden --- yup, that's all there is

What the grasshoppers didn't eat, the drought finished off.  How in the world did this little plant survive?  And that tiny little squash is about two weeks old. Unheard of for squash.