Late start to growing veggies or herbs

okra and peppers will both grow in the summer heat

but I don't know how much production you will get planting them in a pot, especially the okra

Basil loves heat and will do just fine in a pot or windowbox. Ditto for chives, oregano, and mint. Remember to keep pinching back the herbs once they're established; if you let them flower, they'll keel over and die. Keep removing flowers and the plant will continue to grow.

Certain pepper varieties are okay in smaller spaces; habanero/scotch bonnet is a compact plant with good production even in smallish containers.

Okra's one of those things that's best to get from a freezer. You've clearly never picked okra before.

Peppers should do fine in pots, I have cayenne, sweet banana, jalapeno, and birds eye chili.

Jalapenos, cayenne and even Bells can be grown in a pot. Obviously, the bigger the better. I have mine in 7 gallon black plastic pots that plants come in from the nursery. Make sure you put a couple of inches of gravel in the bottom for drainage.

Oregano, thyme, parsley, mint, rosemary and basil are both great in pots too. Oregano is evergreen so you can have fresh oregano even in the winter. put gravel in the bottom for drainage for these also.

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Is it too late to plant stuff in a bed?

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I have this question as well. Not really into growing peppers but would like to try my hand at some other stuff this year.

LSU AG dept guide to planting seasons

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You can still plant Oregano, Basil, mint and rosemary in the ground. Here is a link to Harris county planting calendar for some other stuff. Its way too late for tomatoes, lettuce.....I think you could plant onions now. Onions take a long time to mature up here in Dallas. I planted some last fall I am just now harvesting. But I've been cutting green onions off them since I planted.

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I finally have a very small backyard and would like to plant some cayenne pepper and jalapeños.

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you can buy raised bed kits at Lowes, or you can just make your own

for the soil, I use a mix of topsoil, gardening mix, and blood meal

I then top the soil with leaves from the previous fall for free mulch and organic material

to make it easy, just buy the starter plants

peppers are pretty easy to grow

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to make it easy, just buy the starter plants

peppers are pretty easy to grow

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IF you're a novice, definitely buy transplants. Starting seeds can be tricky for peppers if you know absolutely nothing about gardening. Plant in full sun, or as close to it as you can manage. Peppers need full sun.

Here is my garden: 8'x4 raised bed I built out of cedar.

Onions in a pot in front. Tomatoes in a pot in front to the right of onions. I have Kale for juicing, lettuce that is about to bolt (flower and stop producing). Squash in the back with the big leaves cascading over the side. Have zuchini and butternut squash... And Jalapeno, Bell and Anaheim peppers in the middle.....some cabbage and basil too.




Asparagus to the left in the ground. It is a perennial and so comes back every year. Creole Tomato in the 30 gallon container to the right that I grew from seed.



My Beer Hops.....Nugget is this one. I am about to start harvesting hops in a day or 2.