TEXAS GARDENER: July/August. Vegetables & Herbs !!

July

"Hot weather has shut down much of our vegetable garden plants but there are a number of notable exceptions.

"Some plants actually love this heat; imagine that!

"Provide them plenty of water and they'll thrive on through the summer months.

"Here are a few summer greens to plant during the summer heat:

"Malabar spinach -- Not really a spinach.

"Vegetable amaranth is akin to pig weed, which is also edible.

"Vegetable purslane is a fleshy type of the common weed or ornamental flower.

"Water spinach is a relative of sweet potatoes and in fact is the same genus.

"It is a key ingredient in some Asian cusines.

"It can be cooked like spinach, stir fried or added to soups."

And here in Brackettvile -- Fort Clark - Las Moras Springs, everything they list here rocks!

Such things as:

Okra, sweet potatoes, winter squash, eggplants, you name it:

"It's all good!" :)