one of my best buddies lives in tx and she has a goat farm and sells the milk and she has horses chickens you name it ,, glad you are doing some things you enjoy

I have a bunch of green tomatoes that may see a frying pan soon!. Also the herbs I cook with. My new abode never got tilled this year so my garden is mostly floral except the salsa stuff.

Second crop of purslane (accidental but I like it) and I will soon be seeking the yummy but sometimes elusive hickory nut. (We had a great tree locally but some yahoo cut it down because the nuts fell on his car. Move. THe. Car. Eat. The. Nuts. That's my idea of a solution, not a chainsaw, sigh.)
Beechnuts are already dropping, from heat more than anything, and aren't worth much except as a lot of work for very little reward, in terms of my consumption, but birds and other critters like 'em. So I store some for the winter.
I collect pine straw as mulching material free from my pine tree (thank you pine tree!)

I don't so much garden these days as garner. Gardening with a north-facing tree-surrounded yard is pretty much an exdrcise in futility. I grow things, but they're not always food. For me, anyway.

But this reminds me it's time to plan splitting hosta and thinning the candy-tuft, and trim back a few things.

Oh, but I'd much rather have the greens and the glories that I associate with spring and early summer where I live. Ahhh.

Now I'm hungry;-)

Here in Central Texas, the winter greens are the best. By April it is already too hot for lettuce and peas. Even in the winter, it is too hot for cabbage, etc.

Sounds like a challenge Arfie. I love my garden and veggie growing too but our seasons are opposite to yours. Can you grow tropical veg in your hot weather?

I've got loads of tasty things growing now...eggplant, long beans, bunching onion, molokhia, Malabar spinach, okra, sweet potato, hot pepper, mustard greens, lime basil, Thai basil...and probably a bunch of stuff I forgot to mention.

It's difficult to garden here in Southwest Florida in our hotter months due to the heat, but I like the warm-season veggies the best. I'm just about to have some veggie soup with all kinds of fresh-picked veggies in it. Okra and eggplant are two of my special favorites. I like to stir-fry chunks of okra and eggplant along with onions and then mix it all with rice. And molokhia makes really outstanding soup.

Oranges and grapefruit are about as tropical as we get. Gotta import avocados, etc.

Possibly the most exciting thing growing in my garden this season is sprouting from this seed packet: http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Post-Traumatic_Stress_Disorder/forum/20301881-nerd-call-acquired-allergy

I am still adapting to the newly acquired allergy and afraid to test the limits. Hubs and I are still doing the Egg Shell Waltz over much of anything to do with his father. That now includes the bees since the family drama of his attempt to keep bees on his father's investment property. It has been a rough year for the bees. . .

I gave up on trying to reclaim the compost pile. I built another one down hill from the bee hives. I was afraid to make the declaration because of the Egg Shelling, but. . . To my surprise, hubs not only endorsed the idea, he jumped on board and took charge of moving the big pieces of the old pile to the new spot. He has started his own gardening frenzy to turn to old spot into a "Bee Garden."

Dig it, my glow-in-the-dark techno-geek. . . For sure, it is the most fertile soil on the property.

The last year I was at the house with the ex, I got a book called Square Foot Gardening. You make 4'x4' boxes out of untreated 2x6"s. You cut weedblock fabric and staple it to the bottom of the box. Place the box wherever you want and fill it with a mixture of 1/3 compost, 1/3 vermiculite, and 1/3 topsoil. Now that I am feeling human, I think I might get into it this spring. I might alter the mix some because I found the mix to be a little too loose so I might bump up the topsoil amount.

It is a lot of fun because you can take cheap 1/2 " pvc pipe and make curved covers for the boxes and attach cloth to it to keep the bugs and varments out. You can get old doors and lay on top of the box to give it the greenhouse effect. You can take the doors on and off at intervals as needed. The book again is called Square Foot Gardening, there are a few edition I believe. It's a neat way for people who do not have a lot of space to get some good yields out of a little bit of space. And you can make a different box for each category of plants that you want. Something for me to add to my solitary life and have fun doing it.