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<blockquote data-quote="voodoobass" data-source="post: 2117191" data-attributes="member: 8751"><p>This will be my third year in trying to grow a veggie garden. Trying is very much an operative word here in the Oklahoma heat! I roll the dice a bit by planting a bit earlier than most. I've always heard that you should wait till after Easter to plant, but I planted about 2 1/2 weeks before that last year, with fairly good results. We had fairly good success, until the heat came, then, it was pretty much game over. Spinach did well for a while, early on, then seemed to just fade away. Tomatos, potatos, peppers, cantalopes, and cukes and zukes seemed to fair the best. Peas, strawberries, broccoli, and carrots have been pretty much a wash. Either bugs or the heat or something I'm doing wrong have resulted in none of them providing so much as a bite of food. Lettuce was another that proved to be pretty hardy. I let a few of those go to seed and now I have romaine lettuce popping up across the yard!</p><p>I started doing this after heart surgery to give myself a bit of exercise. I soon learned that it was a LOT more than a bit!!! Between the tilling, planting, bug picking, weeding and all the rest of it, I got PLENTY of exercise! It's actually a lot of fun, as well as hard work, and nothing tastes as good as food you've grown yourself. My best advice is, dive in, have fun, and check your plants every day. You'll be amazed at how quick a couple of tomato worms can strip a whole plant down to sticks and stems. Hey,...wasn't there some old song about that????? <img src="/images/smilies/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="voodoobass, post: 2117191, member: 8751"] This will be my third year in trying to grow a veggie garden. Trying is very much an operative word here in the Oklahoma heat! I roll the dice a bit by planting a bit earlier than most. I've always heard that you should wait till after Easter to plant, but I planted about 2 1/2 weeks before that last year, with fairly good results. We had fairly good success, until the heat came, then, it was pretty much game over. Spinach did well for a while, early on, then seemed to just fade away. Tomatos, potatos, peppers, cantalopes, and cukes and zukes seemed to fair the best. Peas, strawberries, broccoli, and carrots have been pretty much a wash. Either bugs or the heat or something I'm doing wrong have resulted in none of them providing so much as a bite of food. Lettuce was another that proved to be pretty hardy. I let a few of those go to seed and now I have romaine lettuce popping up across the yard! I started doing this after heart surgery to give myself a bit of exercise. I soon learned that it was a LOT more than a bit!!! Between the tilling, planting, bug picking, weeding and all the rest of it, I got PLENTY of exercise! It's actually a lot of fun, as well as hard work, and nothing tastes as good as food you've grown yourself. My best advice is, dive in, have fun, and check your plants every day. You'll be amazed at how quick a couple of tomato worms can strip a whole plant down to sticks and stems. Hey,...wasn't there some old song about that????? ;) [/QUOTE]
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