Planting my garden in N Louisiana this week.

IM getting my beds going Saturday, I am up to 22 foot of 5 foot wide beds. Not much by the standards set by others here...but about all I like to fool with. Going with tomatoes and peppers in one bed, squash and pole beans in another, cucumbers in another. Anyone had success with pole beans and cucs in the same bed, thinking they may work together, but also think it may be a mess.

After damn near 2 years of my garden lying unused due to needing a couple ankle surgeries, I got out and put my 1000 sq. ft. garden back in the past few weeks.

It's got five rows 50 ft. long and two 6 ft. tall by 20 ft. long trellises for cucumbers and pole beans.

I put in a dozen tomato plants that are now 18 in. tall and showing plenty of flowers, 18 pepper plants in 6 varieties from mild to superhot, 3 varieties of eggplant and the rest started by seed directly sown in the ground.

For the rest, it's squash, okra, cucumber, pole beans, a few different herb plants and green onions. I've got 1 1/2 rows planted just in okra and that should be close to 60 plants for the season. YES, I love okra, and at $5 a lb. in the local stores, a great savings.

What varieties of peppers? I started my first garden last week. I got these peppers from chileplants.com

Aji Mango


Chilhuacle Amarillo


Chimayo


Condor's Beak


Datil Hot


Sugar Rush Peach


Then I got some tomatoes from burpee.com

Mr. Stripey


Brandywine Pink


Then I got two Pineapple Guava trees from plantingjustice.org. I got one Kakariki and one kaiteri.

That's a nice variety of plants. I'm glad you mentioned okra. That's something I want to plant. I love boiled okra and vinegar.

Planted 7 rows of peas last week and then the weekend downpour exposed them. They're coming up this week and will replace skips next week if there are any.

Also planted 8 tomatoes (one got beat down from the rain), purple pole beans, and cucumbers. All doing well so far except for the dead tomato.

Got 6 hills for squash ready but going to wait a couple more weeks to plant. They always grow and bloom much faster than everything else.

Good luck all.

These are the 2 pineapple guava tress planted.


I'm doing all pots in a rock garden with drip irrigation. I'm going to straighten up the brick border with concrete underneath.



I added some pots for herbs and okra.

3 100+’ rows of mostly watermelon and a few cantaloupe, covered 2 rows with landscape fabric and left one open, going to put pine straw between the rows next weekend

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How is that growing for you? If good, what are your site conditions and where did you find one to plant?

I planted last year. I had 2 of them. I got the trees from Ty Ty Nursery in Georgia. I wasn’t sure if they made it through the cold spell. But one is doing well. I planted it up on ridge of mostly bottomland. Cleared around it so it gets filtered sun. Crossing my fingers