Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) is a breeze to grow in Southern gardens. The plant is native to Africa and well adapted to summer heat and dry weather. Plant it in full sun once the soil temperature has ...
NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) - As your spring-season greens give up in the summer heat, replace them with easy-to-grow summer crops like sweet potatoes, summer peas and okra. Summer peas include ...
April is the month most home gardeners have been waiting for. Days are getting longer, soil is waking up, and the nursery ...
OKRA: You can't really have a garden in the South without okra. Native to tropical Africa, it never gets too hot for okra to thrive here. Plant seeds now into well-prepared beds, spacing the seeds 4 ...
Now that the bitterly cold weather seems to temporarily be over, we need to get some seeds in the ground. When planning your garden calendar put down the average last frost date in the spring, as well ...
The last of the spring cool fronts make their way through our area in early May, so the intense heat of summer is right around the corner. Warm-season vegetables planted in late February, March and ...