Looking for Suggestions!

[SweetMissDaisy]

Hi All!
I've got a 4x8 bed I'm about to pull peas out of, and am looking for suggestions on what to plant in their place! I think I'm frazzled from a long week, and can't make a decision to save my soul.

The bed gets morning shade from a tree, but late afternoon/evening sun. I'm not opposed to ordering seeds, but here's what I've got on hand:
Okra
Beet
Cuc's
Lots of Zucchini/Squash varieties
Radish
Tomato (Early Girl, Brandywine, Chocolate Cherry, Mortgage Lifter, Celebrity)
Rattlesnake Pole Bean

What would YOU plant?


Frazzled in central TX, zone 8a.
-Me.

 

[journey11]

When my raised bed full of onions is done, I'm gonna plant squash/zucchini in mine! :tools So there's my vote.

 

[digitS']

If we were to say that your part of the world in late May is about the same as this part of the world the first of July, Daisy . . . . I'd plant either the summer squash or the Rattlesnake Pole Beans.

Beans usually follow peas in my garden. And . . . I even got away (sorta) with planting pole beans in July, last year!

Summer squash works fine in my garden planted the 1st of July.

Steve

 

[beavis]

Beans........

 

[Southern Gardener]

I vote okra.

 

[Ridgerunner]

This is a bit challenging. In your hot dry climate but with morning shade. Normally, I'd say it is too late for beets or radishes, but with the shade, maybe not. The only thing on your list I would not start from seed are the tomatoes. I'd think they would come ready about when your nights are so hot that fruit would not set.

Something I'd suggest you consider, New Zealand Spinach. It is not a spinach but it does well in a hot dry climate. I don't eat it raw but cook it like Chard or Kale. I personally do not find the taste tremendous, but it produces well in those hot dry days of late summer and it makes a good change of pace that time of year. Grasshoppers are about the only thing that eats on it here.

My chickens will eat it, but they really prefer about any other greens out of the garden. I know this is not a ringing endorsement, but I'll plant it in a few weeks. Sometimes it is more about what is possible than what is great.