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The few people I know who do garden often plant okra but most people stick with the tried and true stuff like tomatoes and peppers. We have red lettuce, beets, garlic and several types of flowers planted and at least the veggies are up. I bet by next weekend we may have enough to eat salad.

Hi everyone! I haven't had any problem growing sunflowers or morning glories before but then I haven't grown them together before. To do a sunflower house you till up an area a foot or two wide in the shape of a open-ended rectangle, 8x8'; plant the sunflowers together to form the wall...

Last year I planted a sunflower house, using the pattern I found in the book "Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots". I used three different sizes of sunflowers and morning glories like the instructions said and it was a total flop. Well, the mammoth sunflowers came up gloriously but none of the...

I am in southern Kansas, three miles from Oklahoma and on the southern edge of the Flint Hills. We are zone 6 so it's hard for me to find the foods I grew up eating in the Dallas, TX, area. No one around here eats collards, okra, or figs.