When do you till in spring vegetable garden

Pulling up everything now. In Houma my tomatoes are still doing fine though

the field peas in my garden are still steady pumping out pods. I’ll leave them be until the fall

I didn't put in a spring/summer garden this year after having hand surgery in early spring, but normally I pull plants as they quit producing or show signs of dying back and most years all that's left to pull are the okra plants in late September.

After that, I will till, pull rows and start setting out plants for the fall/winter garden with many things being in the ground by mid October.

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Do you ever replant tomatoes for a second harvest? Heat tolerant? How has it worked out?

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Yes I have and have had decent success with them as long as there's no freezing temperatures. If cold fronts show up with below freezing temperatures I generally pull what's there and make fried green tomatoes and salsa verde out of them.

One year I had a bumper crop of beautiful creole, plum and cherry tomatoes and a big hail storm hit one night with damn near golf ball size hail. It smashed my entire garden to the ground, stripped foliage off 3 fruit trees, put dozens of holes in my old asbestos shingle roof and dented the hell out of 2 vehicles in my driveway.

Putting them in the ground in the late summer/early fall is a crap shoot, but well worth it if no cold snaps hit. It's nice to eat fresh tomatoes out the garden for Thanksgiving.