[texas_mrs]

I've finally gotten my whole garden planted and everything is doing well. I've been watering every day until I get a gravity-fed drip system put in. Advice regarding this is welcome!

Does anyone know of any problems putting okra next to tomatoes? They don't show as companion plants anywhere I've looked, but also don't show to conflict with each other. I still have a few okra in peat pots in the greenhouse ready to plant.

On another note, I had read that cornmeal would kill fire ants. Didn't believe it, and it took a while, but they are gone! I used it in the greenhouse beds where I couldn't use pesticides AND in the yard and if they've only moved, not died, I haven't been able to find where they've gone and hubby hasn't seen them either.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

The only problem you might have with tomatoes next to okra is that the okra is going to get larger and will probably shade the tomatoes. My okra gets 7-8 ft. tall before the season ends.

I don't know any thing about cornmeal and fire ants, but I have 100 bushels of shelled corn in a grain cart and I may grind some and try it out. I've been battling those rascals for 6 weeks now.

[bgill]

#!^_&_$^(*%@!!! SNAKES!!! I hate snakes!! I was driving in and saw two making whoopie out in the road in front of the house. BIG ones!!! I ran over them but when I went to reverse on them, they were gone. I drove around looking for them and hubby came out to look and we couldn’t find them. Ugh, we’ve already had two - a little one dead in the garden and hubby took care of a big on on the porch a about three weeks ago. FYI, I don’t know what part of TX you’re in but the evening news out of Austin a few days ago had a segment on snakes and said we’d have a lot of them this summer because of the heat last summer (don’t know how that relates but whatever) and they were already getting more reports. Ugh, I just know they and their offspring will be camping out at my front door any day.

Y’all, be careful in the garden.