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I tried, but I found gardening in general requires too much water here. Corn came out stunted and then died. Tomatoes, hot peppers, and roses seem to do well but that’s about it.
I had pretty good luck with cool season crops (radish, turnips, beets, mustard greens, etc) starting last late-fall, through winter, and into spring (kale, arugula, leaf lettuce, and cilantro did well in late-winter into spring). Only really needed to water enough to get seeds to sprout. But yeah, right now the only things I have doing well are tomatoes. I have some squash, pole beans, and cowpeas growing, but dunno if it'll soon get too hot and dry for them to produce anything.
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Tomatoes (especially cherry tomatoes like Juliet or Sungold), peppers, okra and black eyed peas. I learned a few summers ago why those are involved in so much Southern cooking.
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