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Many years ago I grew squash and it was fabulous and made more than I could ever imagine eating. I gave tons away to neighbors. This summer squash bugs destroyed most of my squash and eventually got to my cucumbers as well. From what I saw on the facebook group, that was common in my area. My cousin, who lives in the Houston area, however, had no problem with squash bugs.
Last year, I grew two large, fruitless tomato trees.
This year, I had one monster cherry tomato plant that made tons of tomatoes. My advice on tomatoes is to put them in the ground early and cover well if there are late freezes. They tend to produce well when it is cooler weather, but the tomatoes ripen more as it heats up. The end of July and August are too hot here for them. Then, they perked up and started making tons of tomatoes again in the fall, but we had an early freeze and I had to harvest tons of green tomatoes. I just finished them off. They were good.
Kale and chard grows well in cooler weather - early spring into the beginning of summer and again late fall and winter.
Black eyed peas - I just planted the ones from my pantry - love the TX summer heat! And they are really fabulous fresh! I totally recommend them.